ARTE: Mario Dilitz la Bruxelles

De corespondentul de la Bruxelles

Realistic wooden figures stand calmly, gently rounded in the studio environment
of Austrian born artist Mario Dilitz.
They are waiting soon to be admired in a gallery. Their light wood
gleams almost transparent, immediately tempting us to touch it,
to have our fingers feel the texture and curves.
The concern that someone could consider so much realism banal, does not trouble
Dilitz. « One can reach depth through beauty », comments the artist.
« I do not want to make ugly  things ».

The main thread in Mario Dilitz’s parcours is perfection. Most likely,
his perfectionism is due to his youth dedicated to high performance skiing.
Before becoming a sculptor, he danced as ski Freestyler
acrobat, successfully participating in European and World Cup competitions. « I always trained very
hard », says the artist while he clears his desk in his Munich studio. Speaking not only about the
competitive sport, which he gave up in the meantime, but also about sculpture.

Dilitz has the ability to give expression to the human form, to transmit and translate its language.
He combines traditional sculptural knowledge and technical skills with contemporary issues and
thereby manages to create sculptures of great intensity and appeal. His work polarizes. There is a
strong contrast between the aesthetic beauty of his sculptures and the content of the issues, where
a profound confrontation with the vagaries of human existence takes place. In « Er, Sie, Es »,
a lifesized nude woman observes the beholder while protecting her intimacy with heavy gloves,

as if by watching her, he was intruding rudely. Should art allow such intrusions? Other Dilitz figures cling
to an attribute (ie: « Big Fish ») or wear strange hats (ie: « Cool Cap »), left open to interpretation.
On the one hand Mario Dilitz manifests the contradictions occurring in human nature. On the
other hand, he manages to unite them in his work. Even his choice of material reveals these
His sculptures, most of them lifesize, are created out of high quality laminated wood.

After a process of destruction and then re-construction the wood has reached a new form of stability,
which wouldn’t have been possible in its natural condition.
The joints of red tainted glue make this process
visible throughout the laminated wood. Mario Dilitz thereby signs his creations unmistakably.
Dilitz was born in 1973 in Axams in Tyrol. His father was an ornament sculptor, adorned picture
frames, church benches, window frameworks, balcony parapet walls... Up to his twelfth birthday,
Dilitz often sat in his workshop, where he also tinkered and carved a little.

« Wood means Home to  me », perhaps also, because his father always carried the scent of wood.
Dilitz now works and lives in Axams and in Munich.

publicitate

LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects, rue Blanche 15, Brussels

 

Anna van Densky

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