Walter Moroder
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14.02.
21.04.2023
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In his artistic practice, Walter Moroder explores the body and the relationship between figure and space, investigating the vital energy that animates the human being. Trained in his father's atelier, where he learnt the secrets of Val Gardena's centuries-old sculptural tradition, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Prof. Hans Ladner, Walter Moroder has been interested in the representation of reality and the processes of abstraction since the beginning of his career, thus creating works floating in time which reflect on the shared features of human experience.

In mid-February, Moroder comes back to Galleria Doris Ghetta for a solo exhibition in two parts. The first section brings together drawings from recent months, including a series on paper made from discarded materials. The imaginary and abstract mapping outlined by the artist dialogues with another large drawing that depicts the geometric structure of a mineral by following its points, angles and indentations. The second part of the exhibition is instead dedicated to the life-size wood sculptures of human figures that have now become the artist's hallmark and present fragile and timelessness human bodies. Even these more figurative works, as well as the more recent drawings, are always considered abstract works by the artist, who aims to free his works from any distinctive features in order to portray an image as universal as possible. "I am not really interested in exploring temperament or personality," says Moroder, "but rather the idea of the person, the soul or the energy that is in life”. Moroder's works act like mirrors, they serve as a means for the observer to mirror and confront themselves, revealing that whatever they were looking for was in fact already inside them.

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