Peter Senoner, MONOMON,

210cm 

The sculpture MONOMON, a bronze cast of a hand carved wooden sculpture. The cast owes its white, china-like surface to a burned-in glaze that magnifies the magical enchantment of this androgynous mythical beast with its strangely opalescent cryolithglass eyes.

Peter Senoner, born 1970, Bolzano, Italy. The starting point and leitmotif of Peter Senoner’s artistic concept and actions are portraits. Portraits which he carries out in traditional mediums – figures that he draws, paints or forms life size. They are not portraits – Senoner’s figures are part of the tradition of visionary portraits, which less oriented on people from the real world of experience and much more representations of typified embodiments. Peter Senoner’s artificial creations are pale, asexual, naked creatures, inspired by fabulous beings and angels in the same measure; they are mythical fairy and satyr figures and similar also to beautiful models on the catwalks or spaceship crews. But it is not only Hollywood fantasies, science fiction, MTV or the fashion industry that delivers the poses and attitudes but, above all, art history and popular folk art from his own surroundings. Marion Piffer Damiani SCULPTURE, Kunsthalle Wien Precarious Realism between the Melancholy and the Comical

Peter Senoner

Künstlerhaus | Karlsplatz 5 | 1010 Wien

Work	#1416
Anfangsdatum	21/02/2024 13:15
Enddatum	23/02/2024 13:15