Bluerider ART
Curatorial Statement
Wolfgang Flad (Germany, b. 1974) graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and currently lives and works in Berlin. Renowned for his distinctive sculptural language, Flad departs from the weight and monumentality traditionally associated with sculpture. Employing wood, metal, glass, and recycled materials, he creates sinuous, irregular forms that embody organic vitality and tension. His solo exhibition at Tampa Museum of Art，his works by permanent collected the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Zürich, Centraal Museum Utrecht.
The exhibition title 《Wolfgang Flad: FORMA FUTURA 》directly articulates Flad’s renewed inquiry into the relationship between sculpture, time, and space. “Forma Futura” (Latin for “future form”) does not gesture toward a cold technological prophecy; rather, it addresses the sustainability and regeneration of organic life. For Flad, the future form is fluid and indeterminate—condensing the macrocosmic scale of galaxies and light-years with the microcosmic process of cellular division into a dynamic spatial present. Viewers are invited into a field that transcends physical time, entering a state in which subject and object dissolve.
Unlike the Western classical tradition that emphasizes monumentality and mass, and distinct from Constantin Brancusi's pursuit of purified, closed forms, Flad radically overturns the definition of sculpture as volume. He inherits the sensitivity to natural materials from Arte Povera master Giuseppe Penone. Technically, Flad constructs skeletal frameworks from plywood and timber, then pulverizes art criticism magazines and books—repositories of institutional and historical discourse—into pulp, which he uses to envelop the structure. This act of upcycling becomes a ritual of “reversing time”: past documents are transformed into the corporeal substance of sculpture. Through layers of paint and sanding, he produces surfaces that range from immaculately smooth to ruggedly textured. In stillness, his works radiate a tensile growth akin to extraterrestrial organisms, further inverting notions of solidity. Through perforation, entanglement, and the orchestration of negative space, sculpture ceases to be a mass occupying space; instead, it becomes light, anti-gravitational, and neural—liberating form from functional constraints into lines and energies that propagate infinitely through three-dimensional space.
Art historian Marc Wellman traces Flad’s work back to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus and his dictum Panta Rhei (“everything flows”), articulating the concept of the “eternal transformation of being.” As sculptural subjects, Flad’s works possess both permanence and instantaneous dynamism; their origins and endpoints remain elusive. Within three-dimensional space, time animates matter. The interwoven, skeletal, alien-like structures are not inert objects but complex spatial narratives, revealing the perpetual transformation of material within the flux of existence.
本次個展《沃夫岡．福拉德: 未來形》Wolfgang Flad: FORMA FUTURA，大幅度展出從立體雕塑到牆上裝置四個新系列作品。木雕塑系列《結構》以木頭結合再生媒材，仿如骨骼與枝幹的異形交織，卻在重力與動態間平衡，於靜止中蘊藏生長潛勢。牆上鋁系列《衝擊之力》將金屬表面侵蝕，凹陷肌理如漫長歲月沖刷，光潔拋光與粗獷質地對比，使時間、物質與自我於此交會。牆上系列《月面》，如億萬年侵蝕的地表質地，透過雙色玻璃與冷冽鏡面、及流動色彩交錯，揭示人類對宇宙渴望與返回自我。牆上系列《塵之繪畫》，以回收雕塑研磨殘料，層層堆疊成畫面結構，回應物質不滅。
Wolfgang Flad: FORMA FUTURA is not merely an exhibition but a visual allegory of the future. In the Anthropocene, confronted with material excess and environmental crisis, Flad proposes a sustainable aesthetic through reverse transformation. Waste and rebirth are no longer binary opposites; fragments of past discourse become the substratum of future life. Suspended between presence and absence, these organic entities—seemingly from an as-yet-unreached dimension—breathe and proliferate quietly, inviting viewers to contemplate invisible currents of energy and to witness an ongoing, eternal becoming of form and essence.
Wolfgang Flad：Forma Futura 2026 Solo Exhibition
Press preview:
Friday, March 13, 2026, 2:30-5:00pm
Opening Reception
Saturday, March 14, 2026, 2:30 – 6:00pm
Opening Ceremony : 3:00-3:30 pm (Artists present, open to the public)
Exhibition Dates : March 14, 2026 – May 10, 2026
Bluerider ART Taipei·Dunhua
77, Sec.2, Dunhua S. Rd., Da-an District, Taipei, Taiwan
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