Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, July 16, 2022: Christian Verginer, an Italian sculptor (#1623)

Christian Verginer (1982) was born in Italy. After attending a course in Fine Arts in Carrara he later started learning from his father, Willy Verginer. Christian’s limewood sculptures focus on human beings of which the model is visually presented in its anatomical perfection. The artist explores the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature, where tradition and innovation, truth and fantasy come together in a realistic language.

Christian Verginer studied at School of Fine Arts in Ortisei and then, in 2002, graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara. Since 2002 his works were exhibited at Unika art fair, in Ortisei, and in other important locations, as Arte Padova, Tradefair in Milano and Munich.

The work of Christian Verginer brings together people and things depicted in the most unexpected ways, where instead of the reasoned, rational justification of sensible links we find particular, free imagination.

The artist is not seeking to create the fleeting expressions of the face or the movement of the body: what he seeks is the essence of the model and, above all, a plastic study of forms, which are both exact and anatomically perfect.

These forms dominate over any psychological analysis because the eyes, the windows to the most hidden states of mind, are mostly closed, absorbed in an inner silence.

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