LAB GALLERY
Thee Roger Smith Hotel
June, 2009
“Polyaesthetics and Mathematical metaphor ”
Kazmier Maslanka
Curated by Robert C. Morgan
This exhibition addresses a diverse variety of intellectual disciplines from mathematics and physics to psychology, philosophy and mytho-spirituality. The work of Kaz Maslanka shows the structural commonality present in the languages describing natural phenomena and eastern mytho-spiritual expression furthermore; focusing on the individual aesthetic of those phenomena and their relationship to each other. The conflation of different aesthetics or ‘polyaesthetics’ is the method that Maslanka employs to imbue his visual and mathematical poetry with a ‘reflexive didactic’ which functions by asking a question while answering another. Since the early 1980’s Kaz Maslanka has been pushing the boundaries of applied mathematics by using math as a language for connotation as opposed to its traditionally established function of denotation. With the advent of the 1990’s and the digital medium Maslanka has blossomed with his work discovering many avenues for this new art form.
BIOS:
Kaz Maslanka is one of the leading pioneers in mathematical poetry. He has shown his work in Europe as well as North America and receives much international attention through the publication of his blog http://mathematicalpoetry.blogspot.com He has published numerous papers describing the mechanical and aesthetic aspects of his genre. He received his BFA in sculpture from Wichita State University.
Robert C. Morgan holds a Ph.D. and M.F.A. and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute and a Visiting Professor at Hunter College. He functions as an art historian, art critic, artist, poet, curator, and lecturer. His writings have been widely published and translated. He is the author of numerous books, including The End of the Art World and Between Modernism and Conceptual Art. He showed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1976 and continues to work actively as an artist today.
Reference:
http://www.robertcmorgan.com
http://www.kazmaslanka.com
The work is an installation of 21 light boxes illuminating the space with the polyaesthetic work printed on high-resolution Lambda Duratrans. The light boxes range in size from 24” x 24”x 5”deep to 24” x 36” x 5” deep.
