Three-dimensional artworks seem to truly belong to the human world. Since ancient times, sculptures have expressed a phenomenal potential for study of aesthetics and stabilization of form. Oskar Zięta’s public sculptures, like his small-scale objects, exist to focus our attention on the process and the material—its unusual qualities and the way it has been deformed.
Light: the grinding tool
In the Sculpture Park at the 14th edition of the Art Dubai fair, the Polish artist Oskar Zięta presents Urban Crystals, a hyper-cube-like concept of a future portal. They offer narratives of the urban landscape, nature, and man framed by abstraction. The crystals reflect an existing reality, while at the same time curving it into multidimensional frameworks—acting as modern urban kaleidoscopes. Each time light passes by the sculpture, or just looking at, constitutes a constant, unique grinding of the crystal. Each urban spectator shapes a diamond of individual perception—because all we see is a reflection.