Hans Rabanser
Hans National Winner, born in 1948 in South Tyrol Val Gardena - South Tyrol, turned after a 30-year career as a photographer of woodcarving. He works as a freelance artist, his work has been in exhibitions from Munich via Cologne to the Kenyan Malindi.
Rabanser works primarily in the great outdoors, he finds the inspiration and peace for his sculptures. "My sculptures are created spontaneously - depending on how the tree is grown and shaped ", says Hans Rabanser. The result will be a unique shape, a sensory experience to make his sculptures. From around tree trunks carved Rabanser breath-taking torsos. Intensive he edited the material, up from the hard wood a fine surface. The grain of the wood, as well as the original bark received in some sculptures give each Torso something quite special. Rabanser sees his works explicitly as a "Seduction" of the beholder - and more than that, he urges him, to feel the smooth forms with the fingertips. So will a "sensual" experience in multiple sense from them that beauty is not only a matter of the eye.
