"A good artisan carves away what he knows, and the artist carves away what he feels."
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.
Mario Dilitz lives and works in Axams, near Innsbruck in Tyrol, and in Munich
born 1973 in Innsbruck, Austria
His interest in working with wood was awakened in him at a young age by his father. After a short career as a freestyle skier, which he interrupted early after a serious accident due to injury, he trained as a wood sculptor at the Fachschule für Holzbildhauer St. Ulrich in Italy and has been working as a freelance artist since 2004.
His works are exhibited worldwide at art fairs such as Art Bodensee, VOLTA in Basel, the Swiss Triennial of Sculpture in Bad Ragaz, Art Karlsruhe, Art Fair Cologne, Luxembourg Art Week, Masterpiece London, Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale, Estampa Madrid, SWAB Barcelona, Contemporary Istanbul, Art_Miami, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary or TEFAF New York.
In 2023, the sculpture "Boy with Shark" by Mario Dilitz was part of the sculpture trail in Mayfair in London. Alongside works by Bernar Venet, Antony Gormley, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Henry Moore and Sean Scully, his sculpture featured very prominently on Bond Street.
From 4 May to 30 October 2024, Mario Dilitz will once again be represented at the Bad Ragartz Triennial in Bad Ragaz.
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Sommer 2024
Mario Dilitz versus Malerei 13 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 bechter kastowsky gallery. SchaanWe are changing Mario Dilitz's previous exhibition: we are assigning paintings to individual sculptures and thus complementing the three-dimensional figure with the two-dimensional image.Read more -
Mario Dilitz
27 Apr - 6 Jul 2024 bechter kastowsky gallery. SchaanOpening: Saturday, April 27, 2024, 10 am - 2 pmRead more -
Welcome 2023
group exhibition 21 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 bechter kastowsky gallery. Schaanwe start the year with a great selection of works by our artistsRead more -
10 years bechter kastowsky gallery!
Mario Dilitz / Jakob Gasteiger / Aurelia Gratzer / Karen Holländer / Petar Mirkovic / Klaus Mosettig / Ahmet Oran / Drago Persic / Hanna Roeckle / Hubert Scheibl / Christoph Schirmer / Martin Schnur / Anneliese Schrenk / Liliane Tomasko 10 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 bechter kastowsky gallery. Vienna -
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Mario Dilitz. Jakob Gasteiger. Martin Schnur 17 Mar - 7 May 2022 bechter kastowsky gallery. Schaan -
Mario Dilitz
sculpture 22 May - 10 Jul 2021 bechter kastowsky gallery. Vienna
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ART SALON ZURICH 2024
Dilitz. Holländer. Luger. Zhu 23 - 27 Oct 2024For the second time, we are showing a selection from our gallery program in Zurich. media release - Art Salon Zurich 2024 (in German)Read more -
LIHGA 2024
13 - 21 Sep 2024For the second time, we will be taking part in the Liechtenstein Industry, Trade and Commerce Exhibition in Schaan. Away from a traditional art fair,...Read more -
STAGE BREGENZ 2024
Contemporary Fair / Art / Design 22 - 25 Feb 2024STAGE Bregenz is a meeting place for a broad art and culture audience and at the same time a stage for the diverse interactions of...Read more -
LIHGA 2022
Mario Dilitz. Karen Holländer. Hubert Scheibl. Martin Schnur 16 - 24 Sep 2022For the first time we are taking part in the LIHGA. Not an art fair, but a fair for Liechtenstein and the neighbouring regions.Read more