Architecture & Art: Physical & Metaphysical

Eclectica Contemporary is honoured to present Architecture and Art: Physical and Metaphysical – a solo presentation by contemporary artist Lars Fisherdick. Drawing inspiration from principles of Architecture, Geometry and fine art his most recent body of work showcases a personal touch on the architect turned sculptor’s practice and methodology. 

Architecture & Art: Physical & Metaphysical

Ultimately Architecture is shelter. Craft and art gives it form.It is a skill, honed across generations, passed on by the masters who came before us, who materialised an idea, a thought. It’s like placing two bricks on top of each other. There is a space in between them. You cannot see it but you know about it. If you take the two bricks apart, it is not there. But to put those two bricks on top of each other came from a thought, an idea, in this case as a constructive idea which is sometimes childish, sometimes mature. It’s a spark which gives birth to an idea and it needs skill to materialise it. I once was told that it is scientifically measurable when a new idea is born. A salt crystal materialises in our brain the very moment we have this new idea. A flash of inspiration.

What is the difference between craft and art?
I believe that craft comes first, the skill. Craft becomes art when the mind, the heart and the hands create something beyond the physical. It is like the gap between the bricks. You just cannot put your finger on it, but you know it is there. You can feel it.

As an artist one lives in a paradox.
At times one finds oneself in an illegal space, creating things impossible and unimaginable, forbidden, no matter how big or small. It is a challenge where the artist has the possibility to do, to create something which hasn’t been there before. We think that everything has been there before, that everything has been said. But we can re-arrange and re-compose, de-construct and re-build – that’s our strength. Like a cook using the same ingredients, just in a different order. Like a poet using the same alphabet and words we have used for centuries, just in a new order and arrangement.

A metaphysical materialism, a paradox in itself. Maybe that is why the work of an artist gains in worth once he/she has transformed into the spiritual world? I still wonder at times at the fact that some artists work and ideas only slowly become understood after their passing, at times only decades later, if at all. They say “they have been ahead of their time!” And when we are catching up years later, our light bulbs go on, like an illumination through time. Some say time is constant and static, only space moves and is flexible. In this paradox I suspect a key. It is like gravity pulling us down, but if I change the perspective, we all might be pushed down, who knows. It is a miracle.I believe that some miracles shall stay miracles. There is a beauty in it, a terrible beauty.

I decided to study architecture because of the arts. But had to find out very quickly that the current job as an architect has very little to do with art. Once graduated I moved away from conventional architecture and into the field of the Fine Arts. Many years later I decided to become a full time artist. I was very lucky when I started my career as a contemporary artist that I found my language right from the start. Architecture, Perspective and Geometry became immediately part of my language.

My paternal grandfather was an artist first but became an architect because of the second world war, mainly because he needed to feed his family.
I was an architect first and became an artist later.
I closed a circle.

– L.F