'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 wooden sculptures. ... 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. Their sad expressions come as a contrast to the almost porcelain aspect of the wood. It seems that innocence was interrupted there and now it’s time for justice, for the revenge of the good. The missing wooden parts of the sculptures reveal the aching truth. That life may be at moments superficial and seemingly happy-go -lucky, but nobody can hide from the past, nobody can escape his ghosts.' -- Apostolos Mitsios, Yatzer
'My work is classical wood-carving with carving steels, mallet and motor-saw. My sculptures are made piece by piece and the building up of the wooden elements I use recalls the logic used in computer science. This sort of process lets me add things and sculpt, take things away and sculpt, with a clear advantage over traditional sculpture. I work with pictures of children, overleaping them with those of adults.
'My subjects transmit the awareness of becoming adults and thus losing, as Rudolf Steiner says, their ability to “listen” to their unconscious. I have always sought answers through studying and reading to what I remember as the most difficult and mysterious moments of my childhood. In this way, I like to think that the internal dialogues I had as a child were not in total solitude but were a form of conversation with another world. I put the children I depict in the position of being conscious of their situation or of reacting and obtaining justice on their own.' -- Gehard Demetz
Gehard Demetz Official Website
Gehard Demetz @ Galeria Rubin
Gehard Demetz @ BlogCatalog
The dark celebration of Gehard Demetz @ Yatzer
I hear the spirit while I whisper, 2007
The mouth full of stars, 2006
Your monsters are just like mine, 2006
I want to be flexible, 2007
Don't cry in public, 2007
My headphones save my life, 2006
Everything he lied was true, 2006
Married to myself, 2008
Your sweat is salty, 2005
For my fathers, 2009
Hitler & Mao, 2007
I was famous last night, 2008
Forgive me if coudn't handle, 2009
First snow in Israel, 2009
You have stolen my silence, 2006
Just one step behind, 2008
Johnson Ricter says: 'I'm currently a graduate student in curatorial studies at Yale University. I edit the literary magazine Banister Slide. As a passionate admirer of Dennis Cooper's fiction and a dedicated follower of his blog, I thought he might be interested in the sculptures of Gehard Demetz. I see a relationship between Mr. Cooper's work and Mr. Demetz's. I'm grateful to him for allowing me to curate this art show for his "galerie", and I hope my fellow followers of his blog will enjoy it.'
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