Walter Moroder

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Walter Moroder (born May 10, 1963 in Ortisei in Val Gardena , Italy ) is a contemporary South Tyrolean sculptor and draftsman .

Life

Walter Moroder is a son of the Val Gardena sculptor David Moroder . From 1977 to 1980 he attended the State Art School in Ortisei in Val Gardena . After an apprenticeship and apprenticeship training in his father's studio, a study visit to the USA followed in 1983 and from 1983 to 1988 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , from 1987 as a master student in Hans Ladner's class .

Moroder's interest in non-European cultures led Moroder to study trips to Mexico and Guatemala in 1987 , to Egypt in 1994 , and to Sulawesi and Java in 1996 . In 2001 Moroder resigned from the chair for art history, drawing and modeling at the State Vocational School for Sculpture in Ortisei. He lives as a freelance artist in Ortisei in Val Gardena.

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Walter Moroder works with the techniques of drawing and large-format woodcuts , but his main work is sculptural and sculptural and results from experiences of inadequacy with the sculptural tradition . For this he mainly uses wood , plaster and - if carefully selected - also casts in bronze .

Sogni Lontani , 2003, stone pine, acrylic, glass eyes, 176 cm

The core subject is the work on the human figure ; predominantly there are female figures and female bodies. They are standing in a waiting position with slim proportions without any recognizable relationship to the real space - except for the floor - and mostly without a base or platform. While they offer themselves with their open presence as an object of sensual contemplation , conversely the viewer seems to be absent and irrelevant to them. The human-sized vertical figures stand exposed upright, their eyes look into space, or - when they are closed - they look into themselves, and they are seen by us who are looking at them.

In the design of the soul-stirring details such as clothing, hands, feet, mouth or throat dominate encrypted gestures archaic image sources with Greek, Egyptian and Asian influences in conjunction with elements of a non-everyday life-world . Culturally practiced opposites between visible and invisible, male and female, concealment and nudity, body and mind, feeling and psyche are put into perspective. The female figures made by a (male) human hand with their embodiment of human experiences urge through seeing and being seen towards increased empathy and participation in visual perception . In their vertical form and as a counterpart to the viewer, they make the practices of gender encounters vivid and stimulate reflection on the infinite in the body of one's own finitude.

Motive studies in these works often revolve around experiences of ambivalence such as grace and grace, around androgynous identities, around the aura and presence of the absent, around the experience of death and fascination. The use of glass eyes is a tool of suggestion and irritation when dealing with the visible.

Cujida , 2015, Swiss stone pine, acrylic, cord, bells, 164 cm

When working in the studio, Moroder generally avoids a living model in the search for form and avoids any realism and narrative content. Stimulated by doubts about a biological conception of man, works were created after 2014 in contrast to idealizing ideas in the human sciences . A number of individual works illustrate the disappearance of the human figure or they turn out to be precarious existences in sewn, perforated, segmented bodies or torsos .

With the claim to a thinking in sculpture that is shaped by questions about the human being, the work of Walter Moroder is based on the inadequacies of understanding and the expectations of empathy .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: City Museum of Klausen
  • 2003: Appel Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2004: Steirischer Herbst, Galerie Tazl, Graz
  • 2005: Galerie Chobot, Vienna
  • 2008/09: with Alberto Giacometti - Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg; Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin
  • 2010: Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig
  • 2011: Osthaus Museum Hagen, Altana Kulturstiftung, Hagen
  • 2012: Sochi Art Museum, Russia
  • 2012: 3rd Gherdeina Biennale , Ortisei, Val Gardena
  • 2012: Rathausgalerie Brixen
  • 2013: Kunsthaus Meran
  • 2014: Albert Baumgarten Gallery, Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 2015: Doris Ghetta Gallery, Ortisei, Val Gardena; Portraits, National Museum, New York
  • 2017: Nzaul d'auter - Somewhere else , Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern ; Galleria Civica di Trento, Trento
  • 2018: Sun plaza , Doris Ghetta Gallery, Val Gardena
  • 2019: Behind the things , Hildesheim Cathedral Museum ; Gallery Chobot, Vienna

literature

  • Walter Moroder , with a text by Peter Weiermair . Appel Gallery, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • Claudia Guderian: Palm fruit eyes and dolomite chalk. A visit to Walter Moroder's studio in Val Gardena In: Die Welt from August 21, 2004.
  • Hans-Joachim Müller : Walter Moroder, Wienand Verlag 2007. ISBN 3-87909-896-4 .
  • Hans-Joachim Müller: Walter Moroder. In: artist. Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art , issue 82 / issue 11, Munich 2008.
  • Andrea Firmenich (ed.): Walter Moroder - Alberto Giacometti. Secret world. With texts by Hans-Peter Riese, Astrid Becker and Arnold Stadler . Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg / Wienand Verlag Cologne 2008. ISBN 978-3-87909-958-0 .
  • Stephanie Huber: Walter Moroder: material, figure, presence. Master's thesis at the Institute for Art History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 2010.
  • Walter Moroder. With a text by Valerio Dehò. Meran Art, Verlag Galerie Baumgarten 2014. ISBN 978-3-925223-52-5 .
  • Walter Moroder. Nzaul d'auter. Somewhere else. With texts by Annette Reich and Denis Isaia. Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern 2017. ISBN 978-3-89422-210-9 .
  • Claudia Höhl (Ed.): Walter Moroder. Behind things. With texts by Claudia Höhl and Hans-Peter Riese. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-7954-3357-4 .
  • Ferruccio Delle Cave: locate / locate. Art from South Tyrol - today. With photographs by Ulrich Egger. Athesia Tappeiner Verlag, Bozen 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Joachim Müller: Walter Moroder. In: artist. Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art , issue 82 / issue 11, Munich 2008, p. 11.
  2. ^ Hans Joachim Müller: Walter Moroder. Wienand Verlag 2007, p. 148.
  3. ↑ Annette Reich: Having body and being body. In: Walter Moroder. Nzaul d'auter. Somewhere else. Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern 2017, p. 9 f.
  4. ^ Peter Weiermair, in: Walter Moroder , Galerie Appel, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 6.
  5. ^ Arnold Stadler: Grazie. Unexpected present. Unexpected standing there. In: Andrea Firmenich (ed.): Walter Moroder - Alberto Giacometti. Secret world. Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg / Wienand Verlag Cologne 2008, p. 135.
  6. ^ Hans-Joachim Müller: Walter Moroder. In: artist. Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art , issue 82 / issue 11, Munich 2008, p. 6.
  7. ^ Hans-Peter Riese, in: Andrea Firmenich (Ed.): Walter Moroder - Alberto Giacometti. Secret world. Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg / Wienand Verlag Cologne 2008, p. 12 ff.
  8. ↑ Annette Reich: Having body and being body. In: Walter Moroder. Nzaul d'auter. Somewhere else. Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern 2017, p. 14 f.
personal data
SURNAME Moroder, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor and draftsman (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ortisei in Val Gardena