Wolfgang Stiller, a 60-year-old sculpture artist in Wiesbaden, Germany, has attracted attention in a group of large-scale stickman art projects in recent decades: huge complete or "burnt" matchheads are the artist's exquisitely carved heads with obvious emotions, these heads, supported by square columns about one meter and eight meters high, and even have huge matchboxes of equal proportion to hold them, like a huge coffin...
Wolfgang Stiller was living in China more than a decade ago, and the Stickman project began there. The material of these giant stickmen was originally wood, which was later extended to bronze, from the first small sculpture experiments, to later large outdoor installations. Their expressions, or pain, or calm, or joy, especially with the realistic burned neck, visually beyond the range of human emotions.
When most people see this group of works, the feedback works are very gloomy, even a little morbid. Wolfgang Stiller explained that life is inherently fragile and unpredictable, we live in a world where our individual existence is often ignored and forgotten, we will experience life, old age, illness and death, experience joy and sorrow, we are also human, life spans are long and short, stickman is to remind us that although we will eventually end this life with physical death, we can make our existence more meaningful, which is a powerful inspiration for "living".
On September 21, Wolfgang Stiller has just completed a solo exhibition at the Miart Gallery in London, England, with some of his works, and friends who are interested in stickman works can pay attention to more follow-up reports.
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