Etnik, the experienced street artist and muralist, has taken his fascination with Plato’s Sacred Geometry to another level. He has created his second installation, titled, “Hexahedron”, featuring his work with geometric forms, this time using three dimensional sculptures. His first piece was a mural in Florida that highlighted the sacred geometric form for water, the Icosahedron. Now, in another part of the world, Villa Lagarina, Italy, Etnik has focused on the element earth, and his artistic representation of the corresponding sacred geometric form, the hexahedron.
Etnik has taken the peculiar territory where nature and the urban landscape overlap, and erected visual cues via art to draw attention to this “other dimension”. In fact, by using rocks, trees, road signs, and a streetlight in his work, this other dimension of nature entwined with man-made city has become a third dimension: a cul-de-sac populated by nine three-dimensional sculptures.
The hexahedron takes a dynamic center setting in a cul-de-sac of weathered grass. Hexahedrons are six sided geometric shapes like cubes. This six sided form is quite tall, red in color, and left open as opposed to closed in with six red faces or planes. It has been erected around what appears to be a very tall streetlight. The hexahedron is much like a figure to be “worshipped” as the dominant expression of sacred geometry’s earth element: thus, the hexahedron’s central placement.
The other remaining sculptures are in various colors , some bearing festive stripes. There is a sky blue geometric form that has trapped, or completely surrounded one of the two small olive trees. This positioning also complements the theme of nature existing within a territory of both the “natural” and the “urban”.
The artist named Etnik has three more installations to create to finish his daring artistic vision. This vision is his personal ideal of depicting Sacred Geometry, the elements, and nature when unfurled in the often visually grinding cityscape(s). Etnik is known for his extensive experience in painting in the city environment. Over the years he has become ever more enamored of geometry and working with geometric shapes.
Etnik now has the Eikosi mural in Florida that represents the element water and the Icosahedron, and this most recent nine sculpture artwork of the element earth and the hexahedron. He will have three more artistic renderings of Sacred Geometry and the last three elements. This artwork in Italy is the work springing out of Etnik’s artist in residence status with the Multiverso Association. ” Hexahedron “is a permanent art piece in Italy, specifically Villa Lagarina. Etnik’s work was organized by Associazione Multiverso and curated by Luca Pinchenstein.
