Housi Knecht Knows how to make crude materials, such as stainless steel, appear supple and as if to float. The sphere as a rolling element, is often incorporated into the compact and extending stainless steel elements.
"We have art, so as not to be destroyed by the truth" Nietzsche.
Housi Knecht's sculptures live on light, not only in the daytime, but also during the night! His sculptures give the appearance of being simple and calculable.... but please bear in mind: only complex things are simple. Brancusi stated, "Great diversity lies within the simplest form"
It is wonderful to experience art - in the form of Housi Knecht's sculptures - which is free, independent, and which knows no higher laws other than its own: the laws of truth and beauty! Now you surely will think, it's all for its own end. No, art is not there purely for its own end.
"Art is there to brush away the dust of the routine of day-to-day life from your soul" a statement of Pablo Picasso.
Except from the introduction, book "water-light-sculptures" by Valeria Jakob Tschui, Art Historian