Aron Demetz was born in in the North Italian town of Sterzing in South Tyrol, a small place in the Dolomites enclosed by forests. He grew up close to nature and woodcraft was naturally a discipline practiced by many people around him.
As a year-old boy, Demetz went to the Wolkenstein (Selva) school of art to learn the woodcutting trade. In the course of his training, he became increasingly aware of the expressive and artistic power of this material and thus he chose to become a wood carver. A few years later he completed his vocational training at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg.
The principal motif in his work is the human form. He starts by sawing forms out of huge trunks and blocks of cedar, maple or walnut with a chainsaw. Then he proceeds to carve the wood and to add details to the statues. Grinding, sanding or gouging, he creates different structures in the ‘skin’ of the statue or adds materials such as resin. Sometimes he chars the wood using a flame-thrower. The statues are given their own surface structure, personalising the form as it were.
The latest development in the artist’s work is the use of the compute
ARON DEMETZ
Aron Demetz is a sculptor who primarily uses traditional woodcarving techniques to create life size sculptures, which often convey his preoccupation with humanity’s relationship to nature. The process of working with wood is a fundamental part of Demetz’s aesthetic, where he explores the possibilities and limitations of it as a material and celebrates the wood textures and its transformation by applying varying natural processes. The simplified abstracted human figures can seem like personification of the wood itself. The resulting works have a strong physical presence, which deeply engage the viewer on a psychological level, conveying both our uniformity with nature and our alienation from it.
The charred remains of the artist’s works evoke a new range of sentiments that delve deeper into the vulnerabilities of both the wooden materials they are composed of and the human figures they represent. Demetz’s sculptures present mankind and nature as one, reflecting the fragility of both. The burned structures peel back the facade of the figurative forms and expose their susceptibility to hindering elements, both i
Solo Exhibitions
“Malstrom” Aron Demetz, Galleri Oxholm, Denmark
The Approach, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
AraCor o l eco della cenere, curated by Edoardo Miery Teran, Terreno Baldio Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Aron Demetz, memoridermata, Art Center Hugo Voeten, Vennen 23, Herentals, Belgium
I AM, Solo exhibition, Hans Arp Museum, Bahnhof, Germany
Museum Beelden Aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands
Keimzeit, curated by Alessandro Riva, Barbara Paci Galleria d’Arte, Pietrasanta, Italy
Aron Demetz: Il Radicante, curated by Davide Pairone, Macro Mattatoio Pelanda, Italy
La Natura Umana, curated by Wolfgang Haas, Galerie Cast Your Art, Vienna, Austria
Solide Fragilita, curated Luca Beatrice, Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy
Hydriditat, Galleria Artdepot, Innsbruck, Austria
Aron Demetz, curated by Danilo Eccher, PAC Milan, Italy
Cujidures, Museo Civico di Chiusa, Italy
Aron Demetz, Museo Archeologico, Milan, Italy
Aron Demetz, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, ex Chiesa di San Filippo Neri, Rome, Italy
Group Exhibitions
42K, Robert Bosisio, Arnold Holzknecht, Walter Moroer, Peter Senoner, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy
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biography
Aron Demetz was born on September 29,
– Studied at the Art Institute of Selva di Val Gardena
–98 Studied with Professor Christian Höpfner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg
Since Lives in Selva and works in Ortisei di Val Gardena, Bolzano
–14 Chair of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara
–23 Chair of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
Since Head of the Summeracademygardena
• “Aron Demetz Cityadvent Münster”, a cura di/curated by Rupert König and Markus Kortewille, Liebfrauen – Überwasserkirche, Dom, Apostelkirche, St. Lamberti, Kirchenfoyer and Zentralfriedhof, Münster (Germany)
• „Nur die Winter zählend – Contando gli inverni“, a cura di/curated by Eleonora Castagna, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei (Italy)
• “Schlüsselwerke”, a cura di/curated by Lisa Trocker, Südtiroler Künstlerbund, Bozen ( Italy)
• “Dove una volta cera il mare”, a cura di/curated by Lisa Trocker, Südtiroler Künstlerbund, Museum Elgiz Istanbul (Türkije)
• “Dove una volta cera il mare”, a cura di/curated by Lisa Trocker, Südtiroler Künstlerbund, Inspera, Bodrum (Türkije)
• “Ex voto, per grazia ricevuta”, a cura di/curated b
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