Aron Demetz
∗1972, Italy
lives and works in Selva Gardena, Italy
Aron Demetz attended the art school in Selva/Val Gardena and the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. He has lived and worked in Selva/Val Gardena since 1999. For years Aron Demetz has concentrated his attention on the human figure, on contemporaries, on people around him, but frozen in poses of ancient portraiture or in bizarre (unnatural) postures. In the series of Homo Erectus, the artist deals with the consciousness of the upright walking human being and how he deals with his primitive nature. There are three smooth, almost crouching bronze figures which Aron Demetz gives the appearance of prehistoric man.Homo Erectus – Petra, Egon and Andrea
The work Homo Erectus – Petra, Egon and Andrea symbolizes Aron Demetz’s passion for the human figure, reinterpreted through the transformation of his own aesthetic sensibility and sense of time.
The explicit references to primitive cultures do not express a desire to return to the past or to rely on myth; rather, they convey the artist’s idea of restarting human history — envisioning a future (perhaps represented by the child on the woman’s shoulders) free from war and injustice, while reconnecting with our own original roots.
The anatomy of the nude figures is marked by a distinctly anti-rhetorical and neo-primitive character, as well as by an extraordinary purity of form. Spatial presence is expressed through a simple and compact plasticity. The work unfolds in crouching poses, or — in the case of Andrea — in the act of taking a first step, rising from a dignified standing position. This gesture illustrates the threshold between humanity and its origins.
The gestures, composed with a restrained sensitivity, and the gazes, guided by a sense of bewilderment, express deep and solitary emotions. The sculptures embody the full meaning of a primordial mystery and the dignity of an ancient ceremonial.
One may say that Aron Demetz succeeds in uniting his personal vision of contemporary sculpture with that of the great Italian tradition, representing not an idealized humanity but a historical one — a humanity whose roots he discovers in dialogue with nature, more precisely with his mountains, and in the creative power of matter itself.
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