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• Hipp Nikolaus
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• Macku Michal
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• Pöhlmann Gabriele
• Roth Urs Beat
• Thole Karel
• Twellmann Urs
• Wetter Walter
• Wicki Daniela
• "A Journey To Asia II"
• "Lust and Desires"

«...Hölzer in allen Erscheinungsformen bilden die Ausgangslage für meine Objekte, Installationen und Interventionen. Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Material, das Erforschen seiner Eigenschaften und Möglichkeiten, ­sowie das Spannungsfeld zwischen Chaos und Ordnung, stehen im ­Zentrum der prozessorientierten Arbeit...»

The titles are simply and succinct: “Sycamore open”, “Linden tree open”. Urs Twellmann’s sculptures that he displays in art-st-urban circle around the subject of transparency. The artist removes wood piece by piece using a power saw and hollows out the inside of the sycamore. While the bottom portion enables the viewer to look into the inside of the tree trunk, the surface remains stable and strong.

The motiveof the hollowing out of a solid body, the creation of transparency without exceed the static limit returns repeatedly in the displayed sculptures in different variations. The opening of a solid body, the removal of material is also represented in the cube-shaped object, on the inside of which the geometric cube structure is repeated in the form of smaller and smaller wooden grids. Each individual structure remains separate, and is only connected to the next one by means of a narrow bridge. The wall objects play with the same subject.

Urs Twellmann works with the so-called “taille directe” process, where he himself hews and carves out the wood. This is a method that allows him to work intuitively and spontaneously, in particular when he works with the chain saw. However, before the artist begins working with the wood, he develops a concept on paper, goes through the work process in his mind, taking into consideration what is happening in the inner space of the sculpture. Only then does he begin cutting the wood. Twellmann likes to work in wood storage lots or directly in the woods. The local conditions always inspire him to find new forms.

The piece “Buchenarchiv” (“Beech archive”) consists of a tree trunk that has been sawed into individual ­pieces. The fact that the elements are numbered is a reference to the process of ordering and systematising. The keywords to understanding this work are change, analysis, new ordering and assembling.
Kathrin Frauenfelder, art historian, Zürich, Switzerland