Sebastian Brajkovic Vanishing Point

Sebastian Brajkovic tries to take the objects that he draws in his sketchbook and invest them with meaning. He explores materials and dimensions in an attempt to describe, understand and pin them down. In his ‘Lathe’ series, he takes an 18th century chair in the neo-classical style as his starting point. He breaks it down into its creative components before reconstituting it, creating a whole new family of chairs, reshaping our perspectives. He reinvents, as happened in the 19th century, the face-to-face position of the seating, the confidante, the bench and the fainting couch. Left behind is the indelible mark of the moulding, the shape and the grain of the wood which rise ever so gently to the surface of the patinated bronze. The nod to this particular period in the history of furniture-making represents a tribute to the skills of craftspeople everywhere. Sebastian Brajkovic puts a new spin on the classic figurative floral tapestry motif, all the better to defy the structures of visual perception. As on a page of writing, with deconstructed thoughts, he uses digital technology to recount his fascination for the world in which we live. A world that is characterized by connectivity, speed and sharing. In this way he pays homage to the ideas and drawings of the Futurists, who communicated their enthusiasm for progress as epitomized by the world of machines, a world of speed: ‘I believe in a transcendental vision. I try to reproduce life, to create the illusion of movement and change, when all along this is impossible. I like to express change, development, hope. My vision seeks to tackle the issue of permanency.’