FLORIAN OKWU
Sculptor & Designer
Based in Vancouver, BC
studio@okflo.com
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Florian Okwu, a Nigerian and German-American fine-artist creates abstract form through the carving of deliberate and delicate sculptures. Each piece is a challenge and an opportunity to explore the disciplines of Symmetry, Fragility and Intuition, the form-finding principles which make up Florian’s internal shape-vocabulary: An evolving language of aesthetic decisions, material understandings and tenets which fuel the imaginative ecosystem in which his own inner-mythologies are born.
Florian combines modern and traditional carving techniques to create works partial to the tombs of ancient, future or alien civilizations: Testaments to the timelessness of form and body in the approach to rekindle industrialized modern life with ancient crafts and symbolism. In his work he seeks a careful balance, revealed through the relationship between maker and object, one of compromise, obsession, and love.
For as much purpose as Florian’s work brings him, he imbues his work with the meanings of form, targetting not the communication of words and ideas, but of soul.
Florian is also the owner of okflo, a sculptural and furniture design studio specializing in the creation of experimental hand-made creatures and landscapes.
Florian Okwu, a Nigerian and German-American fine-artist creates abstract form through the carving of deliberate and delicate sculptures. Each piece is a challenge and an opportunity to explore the disciplines of Symmetry, Fragility and Intuition, the form-finding principles which make up Florian’s internal shape-vocabulary: An evolving language of aesthetic decisions, material understandings and tenets which fuel the imaginative ecosystem in which his own inner-mythologies are born.
Florian combines modern and traditional carving techniques to create works partial to the tombs of ancient, future or alien civilizations: Testaments to the timelessness of form and body in the approach to rekindle industrialized modern life with ancient crafts and symbolism. In his work he seeks a careful balance, revealed through the relationship between maker and object, one of compromise, obsession, and love.
For as much purpose as Florian’s work brings him, he imbues his work with the meanings of form, targetting not the communication of words and ideas, but of soul.
Florian is also the owner of okflo, a sculptural and furniture design studio specializing in the creation of experimental hand-made creatures and landscapes.