Island of Ufenau - exhibition of wood sculptures by Daniel Eggli
Yesterday we visited the current exhibition with sculptures by Willi Wimpfheimer and Daniel Eggli. Especially the wooden figures by Daniel Eggli left a lasting impression on me. I tried to capture these sculptures with my Leica SL and the Sigma 45mm f2.8.
Daniel Eggli was born in Switzerland in 1972. He studied at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) before beginning his career as a freelance artist in 2001. In the last year of his studies he received the sponsorship award of his university.
Various exhibitions from Basel (CH) to Bologna (I), Münster (D) and Brussels (B), Barcelona (E) and Frankfurt (D) followed. He is represented by various galleries at home and abroad. At the moment he lives with his wife and two daughters in Switzerland at Lake Constance.
Girls chattering - Photo: Roland Steffen, Leica SL, Sigma 45mm f2.8
““My sculptural works are committed to figuration, whereby the individual figures as well as larger ensembles of figures are worked out of solid wood with a chain saw.”
"My sculptural works are committed to figuration, whereby the individual figures as well as larger ensembles of figures are worked out of solid wood with a chain saw. These are works that are stylistically close to an abstracting naturalism. In terms of content, they are concerned with the depiction of characters, which are often ironically overdrawn.
The work is always based on the observation of people. The roughness of the material and its brittleness, also its resistance, is always a challenge when it is about the representation of human or animal figures. The physicality should be visible, as well as the individual expression. However, it is always about the abstracting moment, because my works are never about specific people who are portrayed, but about the figure as such, which comes as a symbol for different social groups.
Exhibition from July 12 to October 18, 2020 on Ufenau Island, Lake of Zurich, Switzerland
Eastern shore of the island Ufenau, Lake of Zurich with view to the Glarner Alps, Switzerland - Photo: Roland Steffen, Leica SL, Sigma 45mm f2.8
South shore of the island Ufenau, Lake of Zurich, Switzerland - Photo: Roland Steffen, Leica SL, Sigma 45mm f2.8
