South Korean artist Jung Kwang Sik is internationally recognized for his masterful fusion of painting and sculpture. Utilizing beds of carved and scratched granite, which he then paints, his works suggest sweeping landscapes viewed from an aerial perspective. These poetic works have an uneven surface; they are sculpture in relief. His grinding work has a limitation in direction and usually achieves patterns of hexagons. The addition of paint to the crowns of these hexagons lends an architectural element to the piece, emblematic of cities, villages and roads.
Daniel Motz advances assemblage by constructing wall sculptures that are composed of a multitude of mechanical devises. His latest works come to life through the discarded and exposed inner workings of typewriters, movie projectors, film cameras, reel-to-reel tape decks, sewing machines and other objects. Motz transposes the lost identity of these materials to formulate a new body, an entity that now operates within a radically different context. Spray painting the compositions in a matte black finish further unifies the individual objects By using these mechanical parts from a technological era – most of which are now obsolete – Motz creates structures that read as abstractions or futuristic cities viewed from space.