In Milan Klic’s three-dimensional structures, threaded canopies hover tentatively over thin, bamboo wheels. Primitive and frail in their execution and composed of organic materials, the sculptures refer back to the origins of travel. The fragility of these seven and eight foot creations is stunning, and the lightness of the bamboo makes them appear to materialize out of thin air. In composition they seem to many viewers like spatial drawings reduced to bare essentials, confounding in their non-functionality. The vehicles are poised for movement, as if time and motion were suspended from within them. They bear silent, contemplative witness to a world obsessed with relentless mobility.
Klic emigrated from the Czech Republic and continued his studies at Brandeis University in Boston. He settled in the northeast, and has shown his work at Harvard, The Boston Immigration Museum, the Newport Art Museum, Fuller Museum of Art, the International Institute of Boston, and the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. His work, which has been shown in the United States, Czech Republic and elsewhere, is in numerous private and corporate collections. Klic is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Grant, 2001 and three Cambridge Art Association Awards.
In Milan Klic’s three-dimensional structures, threaded canopies hover tentatively over thin, bamboo wheels. Primitive and frail in their execution and composed of organic materials, the sculptures refer back to the origins of travel. The fragility of these seven and eight foot creations is stunning, and the lightness of the bamboo makes them appear to materialize out of thin air. In composition they seem to many viewers like spatial drawings reduced to bare essentials, confounding in their non-functionality. The vehicles are poised for movement, as if time and motion were suspended from within them. They bear silent, contemplative witness to a world obsessed with relentless mobility.