Andreas Kocks activates light and space at Winston Wächter Fine Art

Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is presenting Keep Your Eyes Open, an exhibition featuring a series of new sculptural works by Andreas Kocks. In his sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, Kocks carefully chooses materials and forms that reflect a balance of elements and activate space in relation to the viewer. Kocks’ practice involves cutting, layering and shaping metals and paper to form structured lines that activate light and shadow. Fascinated by the intersection of drawing and sculpture, the line is a crucial part of Kocks’ work. More than a mere mark, Kocks wields his materials to turn a drawn line into a physical gesture, transforming the solid form to create cutouts, hollowed spaces, and warped three dimensional structures. This equality of positive and negative, convex and concave, is essential to Kocks’ practice, reflecting the tension that is inherent to creating works of metal and paper structures. Through this use of metal, Kocks’ expands the