Lutz Wagner aka Moto Waganari creates transparent network‐sculptures which outline a delicate body frame. By illuminating his sculptures the artists multiplies his three‐dimensional objects by a two‐dimensional shadow revealing the immaterial alter ego of every figure. His characters seem to visualize a surreal, parallel world filled with surprise and enigma.
Moto Waganari’s sculptures emerge from virtual space at the intersection of art, architecture, and science. Within the interplay of their inherent lighting conditions—both natural and artificial—they once again generate new images as material manifestations and polymer images of their original digital archetypes.
To attempt to place Moto Waganari’s work within the familiar coordinate grid would mean to negate the work’s contradictoriness and to ruin the polymorphic magic radiating from it, something which is also inherent in the creative process. Born in a virtual wonderland and shaped from the binary clay of bits and bytes, Waganari transforms his digital golems into analog and polygon grid creatures by way of an intricate technical process.
The sculpture itself becomes space, within which light is reflected and—along the lines of a labyrinthine net structure—gives birth to new forms and images. Where does sculpture end, and where does space begin?
Far Eastern minimalism harmonizes with the iconographically‐charged figurativeness and expressive strength of the old European masters in Moto Waganari’s art. These are sculptures whose visual dynamic playfully adapts the fluent elegance of samurai depictions and—at the same time— quotes the rugged physicality typically associated with classical busts. Multiple semantic levels emerge within and from space. It is here where true 21st-century art emerges: where reputed contradictions and feigned incongruities—between tradition and modernism, process and result, artificiality and authenticity, prototype and copy, virtual and real—are not perceived as antagonistic, but as creative and within the realm of possibilities of the 21st century. This is the art of Moto Waganari.
CV
Education
1967 Born in Flensburg, Germany
1991-2000 Artistduo “Eisenherz”- Sculptures
1992-1999 University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main- Dep. Architecture
2000-2016 Optimat Desktop World Creation, Architecture
Solo Exhibitions
2017 “Shadows of the Mind”, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München
2014 “Real Virtuality”, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
2012 “Real Fiction”, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München
2011 “Polygon Works”, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München
Fairs/Exhibitions
2019
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Palm Beach, FL, USA
2018
SKULPTURALE 01, Krefeld
HIGHLIGHTS, Heitsch Gallery München
Art New York, New York, NY, USA
2017
Airport Munich Heitsch Gallery München
Saphira & Ventura Gallery, New York
Affordable Art Fair, Bridgehampoton, NY, USA
CONTEXT New York, New York, NY, USA
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Palm Beach, FL, USA
2016
New Masters Project, Adrien-Kavachnina Contemporary, Paris
Masters of Light, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München
CONTEXT Art Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Art Wynwood, Miami, FL, USA
2015
Masters of Light, Albemarle Gallery, London
Art Kensington Olympia
Art New York, New York, NY, USA
SCOPE Basel, Switzerland
CONTEXT Miami, Miami, FL, USA
2014
Dialog, Villa Friede, Mehlem
Art Wynwood, Miami, FL, USA
The Armory Show
Art Karlsruhe
Art Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, CA, USA
Kunst 14 Zürich
2013
Märchen, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München
Art Karlsruhe
Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
The Armory Show
Kunst 13 Zürich
CONTEXT Art Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Art South Hampton, NY, USA
2012
Abwehr, Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon
Art Karlsruhe
Kunst 12 Zürich
2011
Babylons Schatten III, Pasinger Fabrik München
Spieltrieb, Aaber ArtSpace, München
Art Helsinki
Contempo Munich, Germany
Art Fair 21
Kunst 11 Zürich
2010
Colekt, Frankfurt
2000
Omnium Rauminstallation, Expo, Hannover
1997
Eisenherz Skulpturen, Dragonfly Gallery, Taipei
Publications
“Moto Waganari” - 2011
“Moto Waganari” - 2015
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