ANDRZEJ URBANSKI: Hedron

Everard Read Cape Town is delighted to showcase the latest body of work by Andrzej Urbanski. Hedron is a new crystallisation of form and colour in both painting and sculpture. In depicting fragments of mathematical ‘-hedron’ shapes – geometric solids – in both two and three dimensions, Urbanski investigates the rhythmic relationships between faces, edges and vertices.

Andrzej Urbanski’s works have been described as being between ‘high’, ‘medium’ and ‘low frequency’, referring to either a complex matrix of influences shaping intricate compositions or, in the latter instance, less busy forms often united by a subdued colour palette. In this collection, Urbanski experiments with a synthesis between them. The result is an animated balance between the medium frequency in his faceted forms and high frequency in his use of colour.

Andrzej Urbanski has participated in a number of group exhibitions around the world since graduating with a Masters in Fine Art from the ECAL University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2012. He was born in Poznan, Poland, in 1983 and settled in Berlin, Germany, with his parents in 1989. Growing up in Berlin’s ‘grey zone’ after the fall of the wall in the late eighties when barriers between east and west were eroded activated his participation in street culture. He first experimented with spray-paint as a graffiti artist before applying this medium in a fine art context. After exhibiting in Berlin, Georgia USA, Canada and Switzerland, a residency brought him to South African shores in 2012. He relocated to this country, where he is represented by Everard Read.

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Installation images by Mia Thom