Gerald Moroder
∗1975, Italy
lives and work in Ortisei, Italy
"Dematerialisation of Being" - Gerald Moroder's narrow and dematerialised sculptures are made of the red porphyry rock of the Raschötzalm, on whose slopes Ortisei lies.In this quest of his, the materials of the earth are placed in the foreground, almost privileged because of their still-healing power of collision with the image of reality and contemporary man. Penetrated by the moods that can be gathered in the productive nature of his existence, the sculptor wants to have a different experience with the earth, the stone and the wood mass each time. Through these ancient materials, he insists on seeking a configuration that corresponds to the sense of a rupture with the world, or an injury, or a tear with the existent, to be filled up by an embrace. The important thing for the artist is not to feel excluded from the desire to belong to Mother Earth, to descend into her magma and ascend again to heaven, and thereby to bring the work from earthly impurity to heavenly purity, and conversely from the purity of the idea to the impurity of language.
The lean and long-limbed figures sculpted by the artist are individual images of the successive phases of bodily dematerialisation, presented in sequence in an ideal whirlpool. This human being tries to achieve a form of lightness, dissolution and untouchability of existence. The disintegration of matter defies the laws of gravity. The rotation of the body is reflected in a tumbling upwards, a reflection of the striving towards a higher being.
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