Aron Demetz
∗1972, Italy
lives and works in Val Gardena, Italy
At the centre of Aron Demetz’s sculptural work stands the life-size human figure made of wood, plaster or resin, sometimes charred. For the 7th edition of the Biennale Gherdëina he is exhibiting a new set of works in which the body loses its initial form and regrows into new ones. In this way, Demetz reflects on the creation of the world, the leitmotiv of the Biennale, by translating the delicate bond between human being and nature into fragile sculptures. Close to Restaurant Traube is his newly created and fragile bronze sculpture, which, in the sense of man‘s intervention in nature, deals with the guidelines of efficiency and artificiality. The hand-painted sculpture shows two towering branches of two tree species combined to each other, which were similarly connected during the grafting process of classical grafting and additionally mirrored identically to each other.The works in the exhibition continue the question of the reduction and abstraction of sculpture. The viewer sees the production process of the bronze casting, with its filling spouts, risers and venting channels, in front of him. The actual sculpture is missing completely or remains hidden in the fireclay stone surrounding the casting. Demetz says that he is looking for the form in order to make the artistic process of casting visible as a hidden act, in order to extend the act of creation in this sense to the viewer. By directly addressing casting as an artistic act, he also gives his work process an intimate commentary on world creation as a sculptural approach to work.
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