Galleria Doris Ghetta
Ortisei / Milan, Italy

Galleria Doris Ghetta

Robert Bosisio (born 1963 in Trodena, Bolzano) lives and works between Trodena and Berlin. Keenly attentive to the slightest fluctuations of light, Bosisio explores the boundary between the real and the magical, the concrete and the ephemeral, the experience of space and its unseen perception. Using thin multi color brushstrokes, his paintings exceed the flatness of the canvas surface to gain three-dimensional depth. Giving representation a gregarious role, Bosisio oscillates between the need to constantly return to the subject and the desire to alienate it, thus transporting the shapes and colours on the canvas into the sphere of the metaphysical.

Aron Demetz (born in 1972 in Val Gardena, Italy) lives and works in South Tyrol. He focuses his research on the transformation of organic and non-organic matter throughout time and how it interacts with human action. Moving from a strong background in traditional woodcarving techniques, a distinctive feature of his homeland in South Tyrol, Demetz reworks the tradition exploring matters such as wood, plaster, and bronze. Interested in sculpture as an epistemological tool, the artist investigates our world through a parallel sculptural universe inhabited by fictional creatures and mysterious shapes. In his practice, the process leading to the creation of a work plays a central role. By stressing and studying matter throughout combustion, oxidation, and fungal growth, Demetz proceeds by trial and error in an open process whose results are unpredictable, following and not guiding the mutations of matter.

Ingrid Hora (born in 1976 in Bolzano, Italy) is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. Through her multidisciplinary artistic production, ranging from performative action, installation, drawing to video and photography, Hora stages experiments that question socio-political conditions, challenge collectivity and investigate how democratic processes come into being. Inspired by context specific knowledge, locally rooted traditions and historic turning points, Ingrid Hora develops artistic interventions that establish new temporary networks by creating collective moments of togetherness. Objects, drawings, or sculptural elements are the props for collective performances often enacted in public space which the artist orchestrates. At the core of Ingrid Hora’s projects is the research on the human eagerness to act outside of its individual realm and the reaction of a collective when a set of common norms collapse.

Alexander Tinei, Kite, 2017, oil on canvas, 200x140cm

Alexander Tinei (born in 1967 in Caushani, Moldova) lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. Known for his striking portraits of young subjects derived from magazines, photographs, and life sittings with friends, over the past years Tinei has become increasingly concerned with the phenomenon of instant global visibility and the exposure of people's formerly private moments on the Internet. Using his painterly style to stage and submerge these 'icons' of cyberspace within the traditional context of portraiture, Tinei has created a series of unnerving depictions situated between reality and fiction. The sense that many people today inhabit an 'other world' online in parallel to their ordinary 'real' lives is conveyed by Tinei's treatment of his figures. Their skin is almost ethereal as if not fully human, and he plays with the idea of private and public facades through masks and disguises. In a way, Tinei is playing with fiction and inventing stories that re-connect him with the inspirations of his youth.

Walter Moroder (born 1963 in Val Gardena) is an Italian sculptor who lives and works in Ortisei, South Tyrol. Trained in the famous tradition of woodcarving in Val Gardena, Moroder's most mature research includes often life-size human figures, whose distinctive features are nevertheless reduced to a minimum. Interested in the human being and in understanding its essence, the result are sculptures with which the viewer can engage in a peer-to-peer relationship, mirror themself in the artworks and discover their own state of mind.

Sergiu Toma (born 1987, Baia-Mare, Romania) lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He belongs to a younger generation of Fabrica Pensule in Cluj-Napoca, whose style is characterized by a dark, gloomy palette and a loose application of paint. Toma’s research moves from the micro-universe of his homely environment aiming to explore new uncharted territories. Inspired by Renaissance and Baroque aesthetics, Toma mixes his childhood and nostalgic reminiscences of his past with ancient painting techniques and references dating back to the XVII century, producing then a surrealist reality with illogical and startling effects. The result is an eclectic assemblage where the traditional Romanian interiors turn into a new metaphysical landscape.

Martina Steckholzer (1974, Italy) lives and works in Vienna. Inspired by her encounters with artworks by fellow artists and visits to art spaces, she processes her emotions by re-enacting the episodes experienced and questioning them through her paintings. Her work changes therefore in form and content according to what she encounters in art, while painting stands as an essential tool for its capacity to freeze an image and cut out of a larger scenario. At the core of Steckholzer’s research is visual art of a given geographical and temporal context, which leads the artist to look for fractures, layers and glitches occurring in different regimes of representation. Her work aims to open to new destabilising and affirmative narratives, by transforming the exhibition space into a stage where characters, spaces and viewers perform a silent event.