Endangered animals in Rebetez's wooden works. For the first time in Italy

For the first time in Italy, MUSE-Museo delle Scienze in Trento is hosting the monumental animal sculptures by German artist Jürgen Lingl-Rebetez, which can be visited by the public from June 15, 2019 to January 12, 2020.

Wildlife, this is the title of the exhibition, will present the artist’s hyperrealist wooden works, created with an unusual carving technique, with almost exclusive use of the chainsaw: these depict animal species generally at risk of extinction.

Four thematic nuclei will divide the more than 30 sculptures, which are often monumental. Alongside the wild pantheon of large carnivores, groups of Arctic species, temperate environments and, finally, a space totally dedicated to the horse, a non-endangered animal, but one that man is slowly forgetting after making it a pivotal element of his history.

The information accompanying the works allows visitors to learn more about the extinction risk of these represented species. These include big cats, bears, and wolves, but also smaller, less iconic and less conspicuous species that are nonetheless threatened by habitat transformations, climate change, or human persecution.

Rebetez possesses a profound anatomical knowledge, thanks to which he has memorized the dimensional relationships, proportions and harmonies between bodies and skulls, mandibles and jaws, eyes and nostrils, and he reproposes them on the rough surface of wood.

“Rebetez’s work stands ideally between a kind of expert comparative anatomical approach and his artistic interpretation. A relationship that in some ways enhances, almost hyper represents, the essence of the subject represented. Once again, art is a language that allows one to construct a transfigured relationship with the real, the zoological dimension in this case, amplifying and specifying its characteristic features. And it is precisely the exposure to this ”transfigured reality“ that activates in us, as observers, that process of attachment to our prior experiences and re-interpretation that generates that feeling of fullness that we call artistic experience,” said Michele Lanzinger, director of MUSE.

For info: www.muse.it

Endangered animals in Rebetez's wooden works. For the first time in Italy

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