Janusz Kapusta: K-drone between Art and Mathematics
House of Art / Pekařská 12, Opava | February 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM
K-dron
between art and mathematics
Janusz Kapusta
New York
http://kabinetarchitektury.cz/k-dron-janusz-kapusta/
K-dron - an eleven-faced body has suddenly become the subject of interest for mathematicians, philosophers, and art critics. Suddenly, because it did not exist recently, or if it did, it existed only potentially; it had to be discovered (or artistically created) to reveal its shape. When we look at it, we can perceive it purely as a mathematically describable body: we know its area and volume, its sides, and their mutual relationship. We can analyze the way it was formed, its relationship to other bodies, and discover that if we place two K-dron together, a cube is formed. However, we can also understand it as a work of art, seeking analogies and its origins in the field of minimalism or even constructivism, thus considering it a result of creative effort. It is no wonder that the very first step toward its understanding is problematic. Where to classify Janusz Kapusta, among artists, discoverers, or perhaps inventors? He himself modestly emphasizes that the form he presents has always existed at the intersection of diagonal lines forming the grid of four cubes placed together. In any case, while we have known the cube and other geometric bodies for centuries, and we don't even know who first materialized them and under what circumstances, we had to wait until the end of the 20th century for the K-dron. Its discoverer-creator has artistic, technical, and philosophical education. Therefore, similarly to the case of K-dron, a certain intersection of three areas of knowledge, three arts, was necessary to seemingly accidentally capture the mutual arrangement of eleven faces in space. Such coincidences, however, do not happen just to anyone; they only happen to the prepared.
The form we are dealing with possesses unusual properties, both physical and artistic. At the exhibition in the Cabinet of Architecture, we can become acquainted with some of them. Its visitor can also engage in the quest for other, undoubtedly existing, properties and possibilities of the K-dron. Janusz Kapusta is indeed endowed with a special talent for awakening imagination in people.
Faculty of Art of the University of Ostrava / Podlahova 3, Ostrava - Mariánské Hory | February 27, 2012 at 2:00 PM
K-dron
between art and mathematics
Janusz Kapusta
New York
http://kabinetarchitektury.cz/k-dron-janusz-kapusta/
K-dron - an eleven-faced body has suddenly become the subject of interest for mathematicians, philosophers, and art critics. Suddenly, because it did not exist recently, or if it did, it existed only potentially; it had to be discovered (or artistically created) to reveal its shape. When we look at it, we can perceive it purely as a mathematically describable body: we know its area and volume, its sides, and their mutual relationship. We can analyze the way it was formed, its relationship to other bodies, and discover that if we place two K-dron together, a cube is formed. However, we can also understand it as a work of art, seeking analogies and its origins in the field of minimalism or even constructivism, thus considering it a result of creative effort. It is no wonder that the very first step toward its understanding is problematic. Where to classify Janusz Kapusta, among artists, discoverers, or perhaps inventors? He himself modestly emphasizes that the form he presents has always existed at the intersection of diagonal lines forming the grid of four cubes placed together. In any case, while we have known the cube and other geometric bodies for centuries, and we don't even know who first materialized them and under what circumstances, we had to wait until the end of the 20th century for the K-dron. Its discoverer-creator has artistic, technical, and philosophical education. Therefore, similarly to the case of K-dron, a certain intersection of three areas of knowledge, three arts, was necessary to seemingly accidentally capture the mutual arrangement of eleven faces in space. Such coincidences, however, do not happen just to anyone; they only happen to the prepared.
The form we are dealing with possesses unusual properties, both physical and artistic. At the exhibition in the Cabinet of Architecture, we can become acquainted with some of them. Its visitor can also engage in the quest for other, undoubtedly existing, properties and possibilities of the K-dron. Janusz Kapusta is indeed endowed with a special talent for awakening imagination in people.
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