Sculptor Martin Kargruber (b. 1965) from South Tyrol Italy forms each of his distinctive
sculptural objects from a single piece of solid wood. He consciously uses the wood's natural
properties and organic materiality in his architectural and landscape motifs employing
traditional techniques and interpreting them anewin extraordinary ways. He transforms the
rigidity of the material into a seemingly gentle movement incorporating the workmanship itself
into an explicit part of the design. His representative motifs are characterized-above and
beyond the formal concept-by intensive exploration into the reality of the living world and a
high level of poetic abstraction.
