FLORIAN OKWU
Sculptor & Designer
Based in Vancouver, BC
studio@okflo.com
About
Florian Okwu is an artist and designer exploring sculptural form through the creation of carefully crafted works of art.Each sculpture presents an opportunity for him to challenge his boundaries in expressions of symmetry, fragility, and intuitive form-finding, all drawn from an internal shape-vocabulary: A changing language of aesthetic decisions, material understandings and tenets which fuel the evolving imaginative ecosystem in which his own inner-mythologies are born.
Florian combines modern and traditional carving techniques to create works partial to the ancient tombs of future civilizations, testaments to the timeless universality of form and body. He believes a successful sculpture is one which has found balance: A series of compromises and agreements made between maker and object which allow the work to breathe, and to find its own 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.
Artist Statement
“A sculpture offers an artist the opportunity to reshape the fabric of the world around them, to crease it in ways which reveal this primal desire: To present our lives, obsessions and fears onto the unborn bodies of our own work. Like us, sculptures are limited by their form, but it is this physical limitation which opens the doors of understanding to the subleties hidden inside shape: The seeds embedded into every curve which grow for each person a different tree...”
Inquire
To inquire about purchasing, or commissioning a work, please contact:
studio@okflo.com
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