"There is no other material," says Wurmer, "that has as many properties as wood." Every piece has grown differently, every type of wood dries differently and thus presents the sculptor with ever new challenges. It is the naturalness contained in the material itself that is important to him, he emphasises. Appearance, surface texture and the respective material properties as well as the associated synaesthetic effects when looking at a wooden sculpture, its transience, but at the same time also the versatile malleability and ambivalent expressiveness of wood fascinate him. Wurmer chooses precisely those types of wood for his work that do not have distinctive grains. These include above all poplar, but also cedar, whose appearance suits his desire for exactness of form. This form is oriented towards basic plastic geometric shapes. The sculptor thus moves within an abstract vocabulary of forms. He wrote: "Constructive, but not bound to any geometric plan - the works remain in their execution the expression of an open thought ...

Already in the title ... the word 'Freilegungen' (uncoverings) refers to the connection with an archaeological approach that approaches the actual goal layer by layer. First, the trunk and branches are removed from the tree in its entirety. After removing the bark, the artist then approaches the actual lifeline of the wood with each subsequent cut. The exposures mean, in a figurative sense, not only a removal of material, but also the uncovering of new layers of knowledge."


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