A pilgrimage to Val Gardena, the mecca of wood carving art. Visiting internationally renowned artists from South Tyrol (Italy) in four days. I created a dream itinerary for myself that leads along the workshops of Walpoth, the Demetzes, Verginer and Prugger. A pilgrimage to Val […]
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Ursula von Rydingsvard wishes goodnight. That is to say: her artwork with the Polish title Do Nocy does so with a smile. It is characteristic of this artist to transform wood into a personality, with human emotions and human forms such as a mouth. Ursula
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Max Ernst rubbed wood grain onto paper, a technique he called frottage. With graphite, chalk or charcoal he scratched over paper that lay on rough floorboards or tree trunks. He used the drawing of the wood grain as a starting point for creating surrealist images
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The heads of Jean and Sophie Arp are two artworks by a pioneering artist couple. Sophie made the first, famous DaDa Head around 1919. Jean followed ten years later with Two Heads, as one of his also famous series of abstract wooden reliefs, built up from organic, colored planes.
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Does Isamu Noguchi bend down for a soap, a posture about which many risqué jokes exist? It is a posture best avoided in communal shower rooms of prisons. However, the work is listed under a very descriptive title: Boy Looking through Legs. Does Isamu Noguchi
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Richard Long built wooden circles from tree trunks, branches or from weathered wreckage wood. He collected the material for these temporary constructions in the immediate vicinity of where he exhibited. Sometimes even in nature itself. Richard Long built wooden circles from branches like this California
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The African Period of Picasso did not last long, from the summer of 1907 to the autumn of 1908. But the impact on his development was enormous and led to Cubism. A wooden female figure from 1907 could just as well have been carved by
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Masters of the Middle Ages. The website Wowwood.nl shows various influential sculptors from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Among the well-known names there are also numerous wood carvers who operated from the Low Countries and what later became the Netherlands. Adriaen van Wesel carved
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Louise Nevelson made monuments from found wood: assemblages of crates, chair legs, turned spindles, columns and door panels. She assembled all the loose parts into architectural installations and painted them matte black. The Centre Pompidou in Metz (France) shows her ‘monuments’ this year (2026). Rain
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On rising seas depicts Poseidon emerging from the waves. The Greek god is more powerful and vengeful than ever. Due to the warming seas and oceans, increasingly powerful hurricanes are plaguing humanity. On rising seas shows the Greek sea god Poseidon, looking up, at a
