Daniel Zakh
Daniel Zakh (1986, Taganrog, Russia)
The author's style of the sculptor and architect Daniel Zakh was formed in the workshop of the famous Zaha Hadid. Realizing that working within a prestigious but extremely large corporation does not allow him to engage in artistic research, Daniel returned to Russia, where he began working on his first independent projects.
In his works, the artist explores the boundaries between sculpture and architecture, art and technology. Daniel draws on modern urban studies to formulate his understanding of the space around us: for him it is not just a container, but a whole field, saturated with the interaction of various forces.
Zakh's works are created using a unique technique: the artist develops a special algorithm, translating the objects and phenomena around us into a programming language: the movement of waves and sun rays, gusts of wind, various sounds and images, and then visualizes them and carves out the shape. Thus, each sculpture is a reflection of a whole range of familiar, sometimes imperceptible phenomena for us, usually perceived almost on an intuitive level.
Daniel Zakh has several sculptural series, in which the author explores various processes and forms. Thus, the INFLOW series consists of works similar to objects turned into works of art under the influence of the forces of nature. Like wind chiseling rocks in the desert, or water chiseling rocks in a turbulent river, Daniel's algorithm forms a relief and rhythmic object, as if created by nature, not man. ELASTIC LIMIT is a series of wall sculptures reminiscent of sand dunes. The scale of the work allows the viewer to immerse themselves in space and literally feel the movement of matter.
INFLOW
The INFLOW series of sculptures is the result of the simulated action of forces on matter. Like the bizarre rock formations of the A-Shi-Sle-Pa desert (USA) or the White Desert (Egypt), which were formed over millions of years under the influence of the forces of nature, the sculptural forms of Daniel Zakh are formed in virtuality.
The rejection of shaping in real space provides the sculptor with the opportunity to set a unique set of forces and reproduce processes that would take centuries in nature. The sculptor creates his own universe, in which there is matter and forces acting on it.
“Thinking about this series of sculptures, I imagine a cube of material that has experienced a relentless flow of forces. Following a variety of spatial trajectories, such a flow begins to gradually grind down the mass of the cube, rid it of unnecessary elements and reveal sculpture ”(Daniel Zakh).
ELASTIC LIMIT
ELASTIC LIMIT - a series of wall sculptures, reminiscent of sand dunes, turned flat to the viewer.
In this series of works, Zakh continues to reflect on the physics of forces that meet matter in its path and lead to varying degrees of compression and expansion of the latter. The scale of the work allows the viewer to plunge into the space of unrelenting deformations and feel the displacement of matter within the framework of one object. The aesthetic inspiration for this series for the sculptor was the abstract work of Gerhard Richter, with his trademark "rubbed" strokes of paint.
“What really attracted me to the work of Gerhard Richter was the ever-increasing intensity and density of events in the limited space of the canvas. Since for me as a sculptor the main material is space, I was interested in the ideas of a three-dimensional response to Richter's abstractions” (Daniel Zach)
Daniel Zach graduated with honors from the Zaha Hadid Studio MA at the Vienna University of Applied Arts (Austria), after which he worked for a year at Zaha Hadid Architects (London, UK). Realizing that working within a prestigious but large corporation does not provide an opportunity to engage in artistic research, Daniel returned to Russia, where he began working on his first independent projects, continuing the aesthetic search of his teacher, architect Zaha Hadid.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2022
GEO LOGICAL, ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2019
INFLOW, ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
SCOPE Miami Beach, стенд ASKERI GALLERY, Miami, USA
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, стенд ASKERI GALLERY, Shanghai, China
COSMOSCOW, стенд ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
DA! MOSCOW, стенд ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
The author's style of the sculptor and architect Daniel Zakh was formed in the workshop of the famous Zaha Hadid. Realizing that working within a prestigious but extremely large corporation does not allow him to engage in artistic research, Daniel returned to Russia, where he began working on his first independent projects.
In his works, the artist explores the boundaries between sculpture and architecture, art and technology. Daniel draws on modern urban studies to formulate his understanding of the space around us: for him it is not just a container, but a whole field, saturated with the interaction of various forces.
Zakh's works are created using a unique technique: the artist develops a special algorithm, translating the objects and phenomena around us into a programming language: the movement of waves and sun rays, gusts of wind, various sounds and images, and then visualizes them and carves out the shape. Thus, each sculpture is a reflection of a whole range of familiar, sometimes imperceptible phenomena for us, usually perceived almost on an intuitive level.
Daniel Zakh has several sculptural series, in which the author explores various processes and forms. Thus, the INFLOW series consists of works similar to objects turned into works of art under the influence of the forces of nature. Like wind chiseling rocks in the desert, or water chiseling rocks in a turbulent river, Daniel's algorithm forms a relief and rhythmic object, as if created by nature, not man. ELASTIC LIMIT is a series of wall sculptures reminiscent of sand dunes. The scale of the work allows the viewer to immerse themselves in space and literally feel the movement of matter.
INFLOW
The INFLOW series of sculptures is the result of the simulated action of forces on matter. Like the bizarre rock formations of the A-Shi-Sle-Pa desert (USA) or the White Desert (Egypt), which were formed over millions of years under the influence of the forces of nature, the sculptural forms of Daniel Zakh are formed in virtuality.
The rejection of shaping in real space provides the sculptor with the opportunity to set a unique set of forces and reproduce processes that would take centuries in nature. The sculptor creates his own universe, in which there is matter and forces acting on it.
“Thinking about this series of sculptures, I imagine a cube of material that has experienced a relentless flow of forces. Following a variety of spatial trajectories, such a flow begins to gradually grind down the mass of the cube, rid it of unnecessary elements and reveal sculpture ”(Daniel Zakh).
ELASTIC LIMIT
ELASTIC LIMIT - a series of wall sculptures, reminiscent of sand dunes, turned flat to the viewer.
In this series of works, Zakh continues to reflect on the physics of forces that meet matter in its path and lead to varying degrees of compression and expansion of the latter. The scale of the work allows the viewer to plunge into the space of unrelenting deformations and feel the displacement of matter within the framework of one object. The aesthetic inspiration for this series for the sculptor was the abstract work of Gerhard Richter, with his trademark "rubbed" strokes of paint.
“What really attracted me to the work of Gerhard Richter was the ever-increasing intensity and density of events in the limited space of the canvas. Since for me as a sculptor the main material is space, I was interested in the ideas of a three-dimensional response to Richter's abstractions” (Daniel Zach)
Daniel Zach graduated with honors from the Zaha Hadid Studio MA at the Vienna University of Applied Arts (Austria), after which he worked for a year at Zaha Hadid Architects (London, UK). Realizing that working within a prestigious but large corporation does not provide an opportunity to engage in artistic research, Daniel returned to Russia, where he began working on his first independent projects, continuing the aesthetic search of his teacher, architect Zaha Hadid.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2022
GEO LOGICAL, ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2019
INFLOW, ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
SCOPE Miami Beach, стенд ASKERI GALLERY, Miami, USA
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, стенд ASKERI GALLERY, Shanghai, China
COSMOSCOW, стенд ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
DA! MOSCOW, стенд ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia