Yehonatan Koenig

Lives and works in Melbourne VIC, Australia

Artist statement

I make art to witness tension and harmonic relationships between form and formlessness. These relationships, surprise and delight me with the fleeting and changing nature of beauty and meaning. Every piece grows out from additive generative mark making, conscious asymmetry recursive patterning and accidents while I consciously steer away from pictorial recognition, “not knowing” what I’m seeing. The beauty I find in this process is like a fleeting glimpse of lighting in the darkness revealing natural forms that were hidden in the void. Its a momentary illumination that recedes leaving a trace of knowing. I call this process “Knowing-Not-Knowing” is a meditation on the event horizon between the thing and the no-thing where sublime beauty is created and destroyed in an instant. If I'm lucky I might catch a glimpse of an always flowing organizing force that fills me with awe and even mystical realizations.

Artwork