Gehard Demetz is a mystery artist, the only thing that we know about him is that he was born in 1972, Italy, and that he currently lives in the mountains of Selva Gardena. does more need to be said when he creates works of art that are so serene and yet have a dark feeling to them. his absolutely marvelous wooden sculptures evoke a sadness to me, the children depicted in these sculptures seem to take the playful innocence from children and shed new light on a otherwise stereotypical model . They look at you and it seems that they are inviting you to torture them. Or to pay for having tortured them in the past, as if they were the habitants of a forgotten orphanage where bad things were happening.

Your monsters are just like mine, 2006 © Gehard Demetz
wood, 168,5 x 38 x 35 cm, detail