Born 1972 in Kranj, Slovenia
Lives and works in Cambridge and New York, USA

Over the past 10 years, the Slovenian artist Tobias Putrih has maintained an ongoing dialogue with the utopian moments of modern engineering and design. Focusing more on models and proposals than on realized structures and buildings, he has mined the visionary works of polymath architects such as Buckminster Fuller and Frederick Kiesler for formal and technical motifs. The resulting works—often poised between sculpture and architecture—look to instances when fantasy prevailed over practicality, and recall a time when modernist design still promised the transformation of life.