Martin Disler. Häutung und Tanz / The Shedding of Skin and Dance

In an intense creative period at the beginning of the 90's the Swiss painter and sculptor Martin Disler (1949-1996) worked on a series of life-size bronze sculptures. These 66 figures occupy a prominent position in Martin Disler's artistic work and were exhibited between 1991 and1992 under the title of "The Shedding of Skin and Dance" at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, the Kunsthalle Basel as well as the in the art forum of the Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich . The exhibition in Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden will be the first time in 30 years that a selection of 22 of the most powerful of these works is being shown. The expressive and equally fascinating and yet unsettling figures allow us a glimpse into the restless creative energies which were involved in Disler's work. The sculptures arose from an inner irrefutable necessity characterized by the use of physical force and the immediacy of gesture. Concomitant with the exhibition a catalogue in German and English will be published with texts by Roland Wäspe (Director of the Art Museum, St Gallen), Demosthenes Davvetas (philosopher and author) and a historical text by Martin Disler himself.