Gregor Prugger

∗1954, Italy
lives and works in Val Gardena, Italy

Prugger’s contribution to the 6th Biennale Gherdëina takes on a conceptual approach. Responding to the Biennale’s theme and considering its “guest of honor”, Déodat de Dolomieu, Prugger sculpts the bust of the famous French geologist, based upon the late 18th century engraving, and he combines it with a framed front page of the major local newspaper Dolomiti which temporarily alters its name to Dolomieu to celebrate the Father of the Dolomites’s 268th birthday on June 23rd and pay a symbolic homage to the scientist and explorer as well as to the mountains themselves and its community. The mountains constitute Prugger’s biotope and they narrate the artist’s identity at large. With his text-based work, Writing the Mountains, he uses a thin sheet of stone as a blackboard to spell out the very act of writing with the powder of the crashed Dolomite rock. Tautological at its core, Writing the Mountains is the artist’s gestural manifesto, portrait of the mountains as a site of resilience and a constant transformation.

Ha partecipato a:

• Biennale Gherdëina 6 | WRITING THE MOUNTAINS