korban/flaubert solo exhibition: metal/work by korban flaubert from australia

korban/flaubert work across design and sculpture, exploring ideas about energy and motion in their sydney workshop.

the ductility and lustre of metal are central to the development of korban/flaubert’s forms. this exhibition illustrates their fascination with metal and how manipulation in the workshop leads to objects and sculpture with a sense of fluidity and contained energy.

recent sculptural work explores motion and the expressive possibilities of the travelling line. The new forms ‘volatile 1’ ‘volatile 2’ and ‘volatile 3’ are loose and fast, suggesting motion but also unpredictability. like an animated drawing in steel the shifting viewpoint creates a more radical sense of a form stretching and shifting into something else as you walk around it. shapes are traced out, constantly expanding and contracting with the shifting viewpoint.

The solid forms ‘covert’, ‘involute’ and ‘tetrasphere’ explore surface, continuity and balance in forms with tightly rotated and compact steel geometries.

The screens in the exhibition extend previous work based on pattern, repetition and sequence. the new screens explore the sculptural possibilities of folded mathematical structures in metal at a more chunky graphic scale.