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Willy Verginer

Born in 1957 in Bressanone, he lives and works in Ortisei.
A master wood carver, after an initial abstract period, in 2005 Verginer returned to a reinterpretation of figurative sculpture. His wooden sculptures – mostly of women and young men – are very true to life but are made “unreal” by painting over large areas. Bright colours such as cyan, magenta and gold and decorative elements such as petals, flowers and birds are grafted onto his sculptures to give them a highly original appearance, inevitably drawing the spectator into a magical, suspended dimension.
His work has been featured in numerous Archive in Milan, Italy and abroad, in Austria and the Netherlands.
His workshop has become a training ground for artists of later generations, such as Aron Demetz.

(Foto: Simon Perathoner)

Source :http://www.biennalegherdeina.it/

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Matthias Verginer

 

Matthias Verginer is carefully balanced between an arbitrary imagery and a technical mastery of tools and materials. Matthias Verginer knows how to hide the effort needed to make art seem effortless: an aspect which is so essential to an artwork, as Baldassarre Castiglione said back in the Renaissance. Matthias Verginer knows how to fill his creations with a sculptural energy and an incredible feeling of life.

Matthias Verginer's works are full of humor. The sculptures of Matthias Verginer celebrate an imagination which at first glance seems ambiguous and funny, but the laugh they provoke does not appeal to sentiment, rather, in the words of Henri Bergson, "It appeals to intelligence pure and simple". The artworks of Matthias Verginer do not just entertain and charm us, they also invite us to reflect on the mechanisms with which we perceive reality, its questionable or absolute truth and its changing or immovable aspects.

Source: http://www.parisartweb.com
1982 born in Bressanone (I)
1996-2001 studing advertising graphics & sculpture at School of Arts, Selva/Gardena (I)
2001-2004 apprenticeship under my father Willy Verginer
2002-2003 cooperation with artist Aron Demetz
since 2004 Unika-member
Lives and works in Ortisei (BZ), Northern Italy
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Christian Verginer

Christian Verginer is considered one of the most valid and original expressions in the nowadays sculpture carvings.
His training firstly took place attending the sculpture department of the art school of Ortisei, and then continued studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara.

The subject chosen by the sculptor is the human figure , or rather , the human figure in its relations with other forms of life , with animals, nature , trees, or with various objects of the world.
The material used is limetree wood, which is left mostly hairless and covered in some details by brilliant and unexpected acrylic.
The titles of the works are funny and ironic. From the long and high tradition of the Dolomites he maintained just the loyalty to the skill , and the precision, resulting from a dexterity trained in the study and the workings , but for the rest everything is modern, new and persona 
Source: www.isculpture.it/

1982 Born in Bressanone (I)
1995-2000 Studing at School of Arts, Ortisei
2001-2002 Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara
2004 Unika member
Lives and works in Ortisei