256/1000 as of calendar week 14 in 2025
The series 1000 Happy Flat Sculptures unfolds a visual practice of playful minimalism. Happy Flat Sculpture #0256 presents an apparently endless line, composed of serially arranged, colored spheres that meander fluidly across the pictorial surface. The composition oscillates between chaos and order, between randomness and systematic structure.
At first glance, the sculpture may appear merely decorative — an ornamental tangle of colorful dots. Yet upon closer inspection, an open field of meaning emerges: fragments of figuration surface — an eye, a hand, a heart — only to dissolve once again into the flow of the line.
Formally, the work draws on the tradition of automatic drawing from the Surrealists and the informal compositional principles of post-war modernism. Its use of digital tools and serial logic, however, references the aesthetics of system art and raises questions about authorship in the age of algorithmic processes.
The „happiness“ in the title remains deliberately ambiguous: Is it the playfulness of the colors? The lightness of the open form? Or the freedom to continuously create new meanings in the act of viewing?
The sculpture invites the viewer to lose themselves in the lines, to let their gaze wander, and to experience this visual play as an exercise in interpretation, openness, and association.