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Gehard Demetz's haunting Wooden Kids

DateNov 11, 2009 at 6:24 AM

Art is the shortest distance from the viewer to the sublime.  Gerhard is on another dimension entirely.  I've been thinking a lot how artists obsess with the idea of death and have overworked the "skull" for instance as a motiff.  To see someone working with "life" and "innocence" is refreshing.  He really nailed this work.

From one of favorite art sites Yatzer.com

The dark celebration of Gehard Demetz
text by Apostolos Mitsios for Yatzer

Gehard Demetz is a mystery artist, the only thing that we know about him is that he was born in 1972, Italy, and that he currently lives in the mountains of Selva Gardena. Maybe this is the only thing that matters when you set an eye on his absolutely marvelous wooden sculptures, since you forget everything you may have in your mind. Why lie, this is not wood, this is the material of the dreams.  And dreams are the perfect place for dark surrealism to rise. What are those lost children looking for? What’s the story that they hide? They look at you and it seems that they are inviting you to torture them. Or to pay for having tortured them in the past, as if they were the habitants of a forgotten orphanage where bad things were happening.

See Gerhard's site here.

 

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Borderline creepy, Marc. But for some reason I'm loving it.

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