These are surrealist architectural constructions that create symbiosis of form and energy in various spacial frequencies. It almost feels like an unlimited energy in the moment of creation of the fundamental vibration of our organism, an organic energy becoming an instant of absolute distraction and then disappearing in infinite variations.
Nina Sedlar, Academic Sculptor, Zagreb, Croatia, August 2020
Your art...very, very cool stuff. Could be used for amazing site development or lobby or plaza elements. Shapes, surfaces, nothing like it, anywhere! The Bank in Champaign project has a Crown Hall sense of elegance; great use of proportion and balance of elements. Your designs are so extraordinary because of the thinking behind them - the merger of classical and modern, technical and aesthetic.
Donald H. Faloon, Vice President, Fordham Real Estate,
Chicago, August 2020
Divesting oneself
of the limiting parameters of a well-trained cognitive engine
is condition “Sine qua non”
for liberating the eye of the mind
into a sensorial choreography of space, form and proportion
delivering aesthetically breathtaking modules
of exquisitely integrated contour
in which to frame the human experience.
Ratios of feminine and masculine symmetry define structures
if inspiring soundness, shelters of thought.
Temples of intersecting musical poetry
and exacting mathematical robustness.
Beauty as source and object sculpting space
into perfectly balance beacons of grace and strength,
function and inspiration, time and continuum.
Art imagined, yet re-imagined.
Hasan M. Elkhatib, Entrepreneur, October 2020
and
i am
moved
by the
grace of the dance
long before
curiosity
of
intention method influence
a
step to
a smile
for the notion
in
at a
glimpse
aki
affords us
expressions
steeped in mathematical progressions
finding purpose in the specificity of
his kinetic perspectives
by
nature
devoid of
symbolic reference
subjective upon pursuit
and i am moved by
the grace of the chance
aki's work might influence
how we consider each other
Bill Bartolotta, Creative Director, Chicago, September 2020
“…The far more charming and accessible work of Aki Knezevic also is featured in a concurrent show. His constructivist models, one for a mausoleum, another for a cathedral, are presented here with their isometric reliefs which also function as wonderful essays in formal apprehension. These screened paper constructions are directly in the tradition of Antione Pevsner and Naum Gabo with their exploration of abstract geometric forms. "The Cathedral," like the mausoleum, is a soaring vertical chamber with inward sloping walls. Half-dark and half-light, it is of steel and glass. The developers of the world's tallest building project would be advised to look at Knezevic's hypothetical structures; with a few refinements and windows they could be used as models for exquisite office buildings. For once we have true volumetric innovations rather than repetitive curtain walls. This is where the experimental nature of such architectural projects becomes important, if not essential for formal progress in the art.
His six small-scale, two dimensional works, "Hommage to Boullee," use photo copies, color pencils and markers to suggest small Platonic monuments. There is something very witty about the tiny pictures and the intended monumental scale of these fantasy monuments. They are elegantly modest…”
Review of Aki's exhibit at Gwenda Jay Gallery by Lucia Adams, “The Renaissance of Architectural Art Work”, River North News