Volkan Alkanoglu has a prolific history of producing provocative interventions that playfully embrace the audience while researching and experimenting with the limits of color, geometry, depth and the representational techniques which use them. From his Cloudscape playground in Florida to his eruption of Plumes throughout the country, Volkan has found a delicate balance between tectonics, art, architecture and the image.

His most recent addition to his body of work completed with a partnership with Designer Matthew Au is no exception.  Foundation, an installation in Lee Hall III, on the Clemson University Campus consists of two formations: the visual and physical extension of the roof form on the wall as a 3Dimensional reading of the building, and the unique and custom folded golden structures which are inspired by the geometry of the building as well as the techniques used by students during their academic studies.

The implementation of a spatially folding drawing aims to blend wall, texture and graphic into one playful questioning of flat and thickened material with the differentiation between the visual and physical elements of Foundation only being pushed further by the introduction of geometrically and materially ambiguous follies. 

The party of floating artifacts is a sampling, an index, of the DNA of the building that houses it. 

The suspended golden follies are a collection of various geometric explorations which have taken cues from elements already within the space. The party of floating artifacts is a sampling, an index, of the DNA of the building that houses it. The texture of the ceiling to the geometry of the apertures all become parts of, if not expressive, implicit features of Foundation.

...such an act is a masterfully crafted architectural device of deception to allow the graphic which has inconspicuously enveloped you within its two-dimensional domain to take hold

Foundation seduces and seductively persuades you to initially lock into the seemingly estranged golden phenomenon in the center of the room but unbeknownst to you, such an act is purely a masterfully crafted architectural device of deception to allow the graphic which has inconspicuously enveloped you within its two-dimensional domain to take hold.