Willy Verginer wood sculptures
Willy Verginer is a contemporary Italian artist and sculptor who lives and works in Ortisei, Italy. His hyper-realistic sculptures of turned wood are equally poignant and absurd. He has learnt the technique of woodworking and sculpting from the traditions of South Tyrolean craftsmen.
Willy Verginer's finely rendered sculptures variously depict children poking their heads out of cardboard boxes with branches growing out of their feet, red-eyed cows with their hooves stuck in tyres, and businessmen in glasses kneeling on their knees... The unflinching juxtaposition of modern industry and the bucolic lives of animals is a common motif in his work, as is the graphic colour distinction. Half of life seems to be given over to man's absurd vanity, when the other half still keeps him in the safe bosom of nature.
Willy Verginer's work comments on contemporary pollution and environmental degradation and engages people as passive observers or even active participants in this destruction.
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