Wilhelm Senoner Italy, b. 1946

Between 1960 and 1965 Wilhelm Senoner attended the Institute of Art in Ortisei and from 1965 and 1976 he worked as an apprentice with established local sculptors. In 1977 he began his successful artistic career characterized by solo and collective exhibitions both in Italy and Europe. After 2000 the artist started an independent journey where the search for essential forms of nature and human figures in space became urgent.  

The artistic language of Wilhelm Senoner is constantly evolving: the artist's interests range from Gothic sculpture to the great masters of the early German Renaissance and to contemporary artists such as Alberto Giacometti and Carlo Carrà. Over the years Wilhelm Senoner abandoned the naturalistic rendering of polished wood preferring instead his raw soul and the contrasts of light and shadow. The rough surfaces and the angular lines of Senoner's works reveal the close dialogue with the mountains, his native land, and the nature to which the artist is strongly connected to and that more than anything fascinates and inspires him.    

Center of his artistic research are the individual and the human condition, rendered through mainly large-scale works: they are human types captured in their essentiality, symbolic creatures that with firm forms, anchored to the ground, or dynamic, in precarious balance, express a dignified view of humanity.