Bruno Walpoth, *Bressanone, 1969
lives and works in Ortisei

The Seeker I, 2017
bronze, 42 x 58 x 58 cm

Theh Seeker II, 2017                                                                        bronze, 42 x 58 x 58 cm

Selected Exhibitions                                                                                                                                                          Bruno Walpoth/Omar Galliani – Museo Arte Contemporanea Cavalese, Italy, 2017; Legno/Lën/Holz - Galleria Civica Trento, Italy, 2017; Galleria Civica, Bressanone, Italy, 2015; Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld, Germany, 2014; IV Biennale Gherdëina, Ortisei, Italy, 2014; 54. Venice Biennale, Padiglione Trentino Alto-Adige, Trento, Italy, 2011.

Bruno Walpoth presents two busts of youthful figures from which irradiate tranquil intimacy and seriousness. Their heads slightly lowered, the figures appear immersed in their own thoughts and detached from reality, in possession of knowledge that prevents them from entering into direct contact with the outside world. Walpoth’s sculptures are neither portraits nor representations of human intimacy, but in all their classical beauty they manage to explain something we are all familiar with.