: Invitation - sculpture exhibition of Australian sculptor Mario Dilitz - Opening on Thursday 17 January

Mijntje Lukoff is proud to present

Mario Dilitz - Opening Thursday January 17

We are very pleased to invite you to our next sculpture exhibition, presenting the powerful yet intimate work of Austrian sculptor Mario Dilitz.

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Private preview in presence of the artist

MARIO DILITZ

  Next Thursday January 17, from 6.00 PM till 8.30 PM. Save the date...

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Mario Dilitz, "Cool Cap", unique, 155 x  x  cm, Limewood, 2012.

Mario Dilitz's (born Axams, Austria, 1973) realistic wooden figures stand calmly, 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 great depth through beauty », comments the artist.

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 life-sized 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 (« Big Fish ») or wear strange hats (« 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 m aterial reveals these contradictions. His sculptures, many 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.

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