Index Code:

ART-RAS-MOG

Orgin:

USA

Field Notes:

Shapes follow numeric or modular rules that distribute color across wall and floor

Defining Moment:

The works that extend from small core units to long friezes making arithmetic itself the composition

Paul Mogensen

(

1941–

)

paul mo-gen-sen

Mogensen built a world where mathematical progressions determine structure —increments, ratios, and chromatic steps unfolding across surface.

His work reveals clarity through serial order.

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Paul Mogensen’s work, this approach appears where joinery and proportion define utility.

Position

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Paul Mogensen’s work, this approach appears where joinery and proportion define utility.

Spatial Reduction

Space is clarified through subtraction, compression, and restraint.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Minimalism

Reduction clarifies form through repetition, scale, and restraint.

Systemic Abstraction

Abstraction operates through repeatable, rule-based systems.

Paul Mogensen

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

In Dialogue

Paul Mogensen

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue