Also present are artists born in the 1950s and 1960s, such as Arnold Holzknecht (Brixen, 1960), Walter Moroder (Ortisei, 1963), Willy Verginer (Brixen, 1957) and Bruno Walpoth (Brixen, 1959).
Also present are artists born in the 1950s and 1960s, such as Arnold Holzknecht (Brixen, 1960), Walter Moroder (Ortisei, 1963), Willy Verginer (Brixen, 1957) and Bruno Walpoth (Brixen, 1959). Holzknecht, one of the most peculiar artists, takes the stylization of the human figure to its minimum in order to reflect above all on space and surface, arriving at an abstraction that looks to international minimal art. On the other hand, the research of Moroder, Verginer and Walpoth, who instead remain adherent to a figuration that, however, always reaches different outcomes, are of the opposite sign: Moroder’s fixed, hieratic statues have an ancient echo that almost seems to have their roots in archaic Greece; Verginer’s, often characterized by a certain dose of irony, operate a fusion with painting by inserting the element of color to accentuate the dynamism (and in this case also the surreal aura) of certain solutions; while Walpoth’s sculptures are mainly portraits, mostly half-length or close-up, that aim to investigate the emotions and expressiveness of the subjects.