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 analogue 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 harmonises 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.
Vita
| 91-00 | Artistduo “Eisenherz” – sculptures |
| 92-99 | University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main – Dep. Architecture |
| 00-16 | Optimat desktop world creation – architecture |
| 2008 | Lutz Wagner creates digital sculptures alias Moto Waganari |
| 2018 | 3D metal printing |
SOLO EXHIBITION
| 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 HeitschGalerie, München |
FAIRS
| 2020 | ART KARLSRUHE, Jörg Heitsch Galerie |
| 2019 | CONTEXT ART MIAMI, Jörg Heitsch Galerie |
| 2019 | Art Karlsruhe, Jörg Heitsch Galerie |
| 2018 | CONTEXT Art Miami, Jörg Heitsch Galerie |
| 2018 | Art Karlsruhe, Jörg Heitsch Galerie |
| 2017 | CONTEXT Art Miami, Jörg Heitsch Galerie |
| 2017 | Art Pampelonn, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Saint-Tropez |
| 2017 | Scope Basel, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Basel |
| 2017 | Context New York, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, New York |
| 2017 | Art Wynwood, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Miami |
| 2017 | Art Palm Beach, Jörg Heitsch Galerie |
| 2016 | CONTEXT Art Miami, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Miami, Florida |
| 2016 | Art Wynwood, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Miami |
| 2016 | Context New York, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, New York |
| 2015 | Art Kensington Olympia, Albemarle Gallery, London |
| 2015 | Art Miami New York, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, New York |
| 2015 | Scope Basel, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Basel |
| 2015 | CONTEXT Art Miami, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Miami, Florida |
| 2014 | Art Wynwood, Hollis Taggarts Galleries, Miami |
| 2014 | The Armory Show, Hollis Taggarts Galleries, New York |
| 2014 | Art Karlsruhe, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Karlsruhe |
| 2014 | Art Silicon Valley, Jörg Heitsch Galerie/ Hollis Taggart Galleries, San Francisco |
| 2014 | CONTEXT, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Miami |
| 2014 | Kunst 14 Zürich, Jörg Heitsch Gallery, Zürich |
| 2013 | Art Karlsruhe, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München |
| 2013 | Expo Chicago, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York |
| 2013 | The Armory Show, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York |
| 2013 | Kunst 13 Zürich, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Zürich |
| 2013 | Context Art Miami, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Miami |
| 2013 | Art Southampton, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York |
| 2013 | The Armory Show, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York |
| 2013 | Expo Chicago, Hollis Taggart Galleries |
| 2013 | CONTEXT Art Miami, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Florida |
| 2012 | Art Karlsruhe, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Karlsruhe |
| 2012 | ART FAIR, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Köln |
| 2012 | Kunst 12 Zürich, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Zürich |
| 2011 | Art Helsinki, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Helsinki |
| 2011 | Contempo Munich, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München |
| 2011 | Art Fair 21, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Köln |
| 2011 | Kunst 11 Zürich, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, Zürich |
GROUP EXHIBITION
| 2020 | CORONALE, MKV, Mannheim |
| 2020 | Future Lab, AR, Heitsch Gallery München |
| 2019 | HIGHLIGHTS, 3D metal printing, Heitsch Gallery München |
| 2018 | SKULPTURALE 01, Krefeld |
| 2018 | HIGHLIGHTS, Heitsch Gallery München |
| 2017 | Airport Munich, Heitsch Gallery München |
| 2017 | Saphira & Ventura Gallery, New York |
| 2016 | Augmented Reality, MKV, Mannheim |
| 2016 | New Masters Project, Adrien-Kavachnina Contemporary PARIS |
| 2016 | Masters of Light, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München |
| 2015 | Masters of Light, Albemarle Gallery LONDON |
| 2014 | Dialog, Villa Friede, Mehlem |
| 2014 | New Masters, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München |
| 2013 | Modern Sculpture, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München |
| 2013 | Märchen, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München |
| 2012 | Abwehr, Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon |
| 2011 | Babylons Schatten III, Pasinger Fabrik, München |
| 2011 | Spieltrieb, Aaber ArtSpace, München |
| 2010 | Colekt, Frankfurt/M |
| 2000 | Omnium, Expo, Hannover |
| 1997 | Alien, Dragonfly Gallery, Taipei |
OPEN SPACE
| 2021 | The Pandemic Protection Plan, Mannheimer Kunstverein |
| 2020 | Rise, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| 2018 | Helping Hands, Stony Brook Hospital, New York |
| 2013 | Zukunft des Bauens, DETAIL research, HFF München |
| 2013 | CeBIT VIP Lounge, SAP, Hannover |
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