Dancer Sydney Studio Exhibition by Korban/Flaubert.

Over the last 27 years, Sydney artists Janos Korban and Stefanie Flaubert have developed a unique practice from their background spanning architecture, design, art, psychology and metalwork, utilising skills honed in Germany. For their latest exhibition, Korban/Flaubert have turned their Sydney sculpture studio into a dance floor. Colourful pieces populate the space with “joyful humanoid snapshots of motion – popping, strutting, swirling and generally boogieing on down”.

This latest iteration of the duo’s long-term investigation into the body’s relationship with space explores “how sculpture can capture the energy and momentum of motion,” explain Janos and Stefanie. “The momentum of the travelling line. The power of the line to carry the eye around and through sculpture at varying speeds. The shifting viewpoint in three dimensions and the potential for a compelling duel between sculpture and viewer.”

Sitting apart from their earlier works focussing on the purity of metal and primarily executed in corten, black and stainless steel, the ‘Dancers’ explore the intensity of velvety matt colour on complicated curved sculptural forms. The sculptures are finished via “loosely thrown epoxy glass to add liquid depth and expressiveness”.

Further to the use of colour, ‘Dancer’ takes a light-hearted approach. “Each sculpture has its own character and movement,” said the duo. “Its own dance moves. Its own personality. Some muscular and grounded, some lightweight and floating. A human scene: a colourful group of dancers, showing off, dancing with abandon. Frozen in mid-move. Energy and motion. Tension and release. Momentum and instability.”

Dancer exhibition takes place in the remarkable Paddington building that once housed the Sherman Gallery. This minimalist volume with dramatic double-height spaces provides a fantastic setting for sculpture and has been Korban and Flaubert’s studio space for the last 5 years.

For more information, visit korbanflaubert.com.au.

[Images courtesy of Korban/Flaubert.]