Gehard Demetz

Gehard Demetz, born in 1972 in Bolzano, Italy, graduated from the Bolzano Academy of Arts in 1995. With his solid background in art school, he inherited the spirit of traditional wood carving from Selva di Val Gardena, Italy, and applied his exquisite techniques to contemporary wood carving to build his own unique style and elements, which has become internationally renowned in just a few years.

Gerhard Demetz Through his constant observation, he transforms his anxieties and worries into a piece of wood, which is then reconstructed and sculpted into a scene, allowing the viewer to immerse himself into his world of creation and a direct dialogue with the sculpture. The viewer is immersed in the world of his creations and in direct dialogue with the sculptures. Gerhard cuts the wood into pieces of different sizes, polishes them repeatedly, and assembles them into a basic structure, keeping small gaps like air holes in the wood pieces, just like architectural structures, adding to the difficulty and uniqueness of wood sculpture. This special structural technique makes him unique in the field of contemporary wood carving, which is one of the reasons why his works have attracted so much attention in the art world.

After his first exhibition in 2002, Gerhard Demetz has been invited to exhibit his work in prestigious galleries, fairs and museums in the USA, Spain, Germany, Korea and Italy, such as Moca Virginia Museum of contemporary art, Macro Roma and Museo Palazzo, Beck & Eggeling gallery in Dusseldorf, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Dusseldorf. In 2009, he was exhibited at Palazzo Spinola in Genoa, Italy, and in 2012 at Kunstmuseum Mülheim, Germany. The exhibition was held at the Kunstmuseum Mülheim in 2012.