Mario Dilitz sculpture bechter kastowsky gallery PARNASS

In Mario Dilitz's work, classical material and classical medium meet a contemporary view of the world. His frontal sculptures, some of them human-sized, show people who look towards the viewer without much facial expression. The technique and the formal language is a thoroughly classical one and goes back to the beginnings of sculpture: formed and carved out of wood or cast in bronze. But the figures themselves are located in the here and now. A little boy holding an object behind his back. Clad only in a bath towel around his hips, the assumption is that it is a surfboard the boy is carrying here. But no, he is holding a fish. A fish? Yes! A certain irony but also surreality intervenes here. Mario Dilitz's models for his figures are anonymous. 

Mario Dilitz prefers to work with various types of wood for his sculptures. Initially, the individual pieces of wood are glued together, whereby the traces of glue are visible to the outside due to the colouring of the glue used. This resulting block is then treated in the classical way, the wood is removed, thus freeing the body, the figure. At which points the mostly red or black visible glue traces become visible can only be guessed at first.

Kunstmagazin PARNASS - 2021 - in German