Wood Sculpture, Painted, Acrylic, 70 x 27 x 6, free standing / wall hanged
Wood Sculpture, Found wood, Painted, Dimensions variable
Ernst Koslitsch (* 1977 in Wagna, Steiermark) studied Photography and Fine art under Professor Gabriele Rothemann. Later he also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture and performative arts under Monica Bonvicini.
For his sculptures, the artist utilizes used yellow painted wooden panels that he finds on construction sites. For a few years now Ernst has been working on strong yet at the same time delicate figurative wooden creatures, allowing us a more in-depth picture of this yellow cosmos.
His paintings are narratives of life taking place in this yellow space. It is not all fictional or mythological, but also factual and historical finds such as stone engravings and cave paintings that find their way into his work. His fascination for the mystery of the unexplained triggers questions on the human construct and its faith.
Idols such as Philip K Dick question reality in their work, Gene Roddenberry the creator of Star Trek questions society-related topics in his fictional stories, creating worlds with new constructs, different from our world today. Ernst watches closely as mankind grows steadily into a society of modern age ideologists, and what effects this has. He is curious if they will eventually make use of digitalization, to form a new kind of civilization.
All of this, the fictional, the historical mysteries, the fantastical and the factual, are all entwined into one fake and Constructed Mythology.