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Frühlingsgefühle Velden am Wörthersee
Star mile Velden - Heinrich Untergantschnig
The sculpture "The Great Social Structure" is in its dimensions equal to the human body in relation to its dimensions, and with its different sized forms a structure is created which is also found in society. The absence of each individual form would mean a loss, as would the absence of a human being in society.
Title of the work: "The Great Social Structure
Material: Krastaler marble
Dimensions: base area 80 x 50 cm, height 250 cm
Weight: 2 t
Year of origin: 2012
Biography Heinrich Untergantschnig
1959 born in Grafenberg / Mölltal
1973-1974 Stiegerhof agricultural college
1974-1978 Technical school for wood and stone sculptors in Hallein / Salzburg with Prof. Bernhard Prähauser
since 1978 member of the Professional Association of Austrian Visual Artists and freelance artist
1991-1993 master school for sculptors in Munich with Krottenthaler and Strauchmann, master examination, study trips to Budapest and Egypt
1988-2002 Participation in the Kunstforum Millstatt
1997 Purchase of the farm "vlg. Unterlienzner" on the Grafenberg
2002 Monograph "A Mölltaler Sculptor
2002 Participation in the 1st International Biennale of Contemporary Art-Austria
2002 Foundation of the gallery in the Flattacherhof
2005 Summer Academy Tammerburg/Lienz
Heinrich Untergantschnig lives and works as a mountain farmer and sculptor at Grafenberg/Mölltal.
Exhibitions and participations
1975 Exhibition of the sculpture classes in the Kunstpavillon Salzburg
1979-2009 Exhibitions of the BV in the townhouse Klagenfurt
1988-2007 nativity scenes and passion exhibitions in the Heimatwerk Salzburg
1998 Austrian Postal Savings Bank Villach
1999 solo exhibition BV- Gallery Klagenfurt
2000-2002 Gallery Rondula Iselsberg/Lienz
2001 Aut. art forum in Weimar/BRD
2001 Festival of Christian Art in Wasserburg/Inn BRD
2001 Solo exhibition in the cloister of Millstatt Abbey, Körper + Seelen
2002 Gallery Fersterer, Saalbach
2002 Romanesque charnel house, St.Veit/Glan
2002 Participation in the 1st International Biennale of Contemporary Art-Austria
2003 solo exhibition gallery Lungau, Mauterndorf
2003 Gallery de Bretter/Tresdorf
2004 solo exhibition Krastowitz-Klagenfurt Castle
2004 Gallery de'Bretter, Tresdorf
2004 Rothenthurn Castle near Spittal/Drau
2005 Wood sculptures in Q3 in Villach
2005 Gallery de'Bretter, Tresdorf
2005 Educational Centre St. Georgen/Längsee
2005 present 2005 Bad Hofgastein
2006 Passion exhibition city hall St. Veit/Glan
2006 Mille statue Millstatt
2006 Gallery de 'Bretter', Tresdorf
2006 Nativity Biennale GALERIE MUH, 1st prize
2007 Gallery Lungau, Art in Ireland near Obervellach
2008 international sculpture symposium in Mallnitz
2009 Own bread - Grafenberg
2009 Participation in the Austrian Agricultural Project Prize
2010 Orthopaedics Dr. Grübl - Vienna
2011 Sculptor Symposium NIMIS - Italy
2011 Impulse Center Seeboden
2012 Nativity Biennale GALERIE MUH, 1st prize
Heinrich Untergantschnig on "The Sense of Sculpture - The Visual Arts
Mysticism, thoughts, themes, ideas, states of the soul, dream experiences and experiences are the starting points for making the visual arts visible; in form and colour, simple, pure, primitive, naive, real, concrete, abstract, intellectual, as a profession, need or therapy.
If there is a theme or an idea which is to be sculpturally realized, a picture develops in my mind, supported by working on paper, clay or directly on the material from which it is to be created.
Intensive "developing" of the motif until clarity of form and content in the three-dimensional is present in the mind, presupposes that the work can then be executed accordingly, which was previously visible in the thought, in the picture, in the mind. Working only on it, with an idea but without a concept, requires a different kind of security, be it trust, the willingness to take risks and a sensitive feeling for the possibilities that are in the medium. To draw from the inside, to make visible the state of the soul, already recognizable on the surface, the form, the subject; more deeply encoded a secret. Privation, hunger for the earthly or mystical life are the sources for creative work.
Beautiful arts become visible through people with a beautiful mind, but not necessarily. Arnulf Rainer says about the figure of Christ: "The cross, as a principle, like the Son of God, must bring together all dimensions. And this bringing together also belongs to the profession of the artist. The artist places the highest idealistic demands on himself and on spiritual systems, and yet at the same time he must move or move in the everyday, in the temporary, in the most miserable rubbish dumps. He has to face the material and transpose it. Mysticism alone is of no interest to the artist: the mystical and the dirt, the daily misery must be brought together. This is a well-known theologian's truth, but also the principle of art.
The artist goes through phases in his existence where positive and negative alternate - and this is then expressed in the works. Euphoria, melancholy, obsession and desire are the driving forces. Heart, head and stomach stand for the result. The otherwise deep, hidden soul is brought up to the surface, becomes visible in form and colour.
An essential need for me is to give soul to the work so that it can be message, question, anchor and inspiration.
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