Willi Siber

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Wooden sculpture by Willi Siber, Städtische Galerie Ravensburg (2009)

Willi Siber (* 1949 in Eberhardzell ) is a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Growing up in Upper Swabia , Willi Siber studied art at the University of Stuttgart from 1970 until his state examination in 1974 . At the same time he attended the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . This, he graduated in 1976 as a master student in the class for sculpture of Herbert Baumann from the state exam. Willi Siber moved into his studios in Reutlingen and Dietenwengen in the 1970s. Since 1999, large sculptures have been created on his work place in Ticino .

Since 1990 Willi Siber has exhibited in galleries, museums and art associations around the world. He is regularly represented at international art fairs through his galleries.

Willi Siber's artistic work is complemented by a wide range of art-in-building projects.

As a freelance artist, Willi Siber is a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund , the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg and XYLON , the international association of wood cutters.

Artistic creation

Willi Siber's art appears distant and close, present and immaterial at the same time. The examination of the basics of sensory perception, optical and haptic perception, with the experience of form, surface, matter and space forms the basis of all his artistic work. Regardless of the medium in which he expresses himself, in his painting, his wooden sculptures, wall and floor objects, he always invokes various kinds of pictorial principles of order - and at the same time devotes himself to dismantling them.

Willi Siber's form bodies and picture cycles examine the material wood and the spatial relationship between relief and sculpture . Voluminous lattice objects with their filigree and transparency stand alongside compact stereometric bodies, whose split or rough-sawn, cone-studded surfaces associate material vitality, vulnerability and disembodiment. The impression of heaviness and lightness, density and dissolution, spatial depth and surface concentration is in the foreground of an irritating form and surface treatment, which questions the certainty of our visual experience.

In the architectural context, his works develop a spatial character. With a sensitive feeling for site-specific situations, Willi Siber designs room installations that influence and transform the appearance of their architectural surroundings in the sense of the environment.

The innovative handling of the material wood gives Willi Siber's oeuvre a special meaning in the renewal of wood carving. In the search for ever new artistic forms of expression, plastic work with steel elements has recently been added.

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Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018: Perfectly designed, Art Affair Gallery, Regensburg
  • 2016: New works, Art Affair Gallery, Regensburg
  • 2011: since tomorrow , Städtische Galerie Fähre , Bad Saulgau
  • 2009: augen weiden , Städt. Ravensburg Gallery
  • 2009: wall and floor , Kunstverein Konstanz
  • 2008: Objects and sculptures, Reutlingen Art Association
  • 2006: factory tour , Villa Merkel , Esslingen
  • 2003: bottomless , Städt. Gallery Tuttlingen
  • 2001: raumnahrung , Städt. Gallery in the Prediger , Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • 2000: absolutely irrelevant , Kunstverein Würzburg
  • 1998: exact fantasy , Städt. Singing Art Museum
  • 1996: exact fantasy , Städt. Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen

Galleries

  • AC Claus-Dieter Tholen, Herford
  • Anderwereld, Groningen
  • art house , Bregenz / Dornbirn
  • Art Felchlin, Schwyz and Zurich
  • Klaus Benden, Cologne
  • BMB, Amsterdam
  • Braunbehrens, Munich
  • Caldwell-Snyder, New York / San Francisco
  • Conny Dietzschold, Sydney
  • Grashey, Constance
  • Harthan, Stuttgart
  • Hrobsky, Vienna
  • Kondeyne, Berlin
  • Renggli, train
  • Mochental Castle , Ehingen / Danube
  • Wohlhüter, Leibertingen - Thalheim
  • Karin Weber, Hong Kong
  • Art Affair Gallery , Regensburg

Catalogs

The following catalog books have been published to accompany his exhibitions: since tomorrow (2011), morgen war (2011), augenweiden (2009), real (2008), factory tour (2006), color fassen (2003), wood moving (2002), never by the way (1999), exact fantasy (1997), order and resolution (1993)

Photo gallery

  • image

  • Art and architecture (Bodensee-Therme, Konstanz)

  • Spaces

  • object

literature

  • Willi Siber, augen weiden, Ed. Städtische Galerie Ravensburg, Ravensburg 2009. ISBN 978-3-9811333-4-9 .
  • Willi Siber, factory tour: Working, Ed. Esslinger Kunstverein eV and Galerie Hrobsky, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-925171-63-0
  • Willi Siber, Morgen war, Ed. Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-922268-65-9
  • Real: Kunst am Bau, Ed. Willi Siber; Stefan Beuter, Eberhardzell-Dietenwengen 2008. ISBN 978-3-925171-71-0
  • Willi Siber, color grasp, ed. Kunstkreis Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen 2003
  • Willi Siber, never by the way, Ed. Kulturförderkreis Kißlegg eV, 1999. ISBN 3-925521-61-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "S" / Willi Siber (accessed on February 20, 2016)
  2. ↑ therme-konstanz.de: Architecture , The Glass Front (October 7, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Siber, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberhardzell