Roland Wegerer (A)

Roland Wegerer was born in 1974 in Amstetten, Austria
Training for technical draftsman, since 1997 express intense in art.
Since 2005 studies at University of art and industrial design Linz. Lives and works in St. Nikola/Danube and Linz.
The investigation of positioning the individual is a central task in the work of Roland Wegerer. For this he dives deeply into the daily life of everyone. Rituals, practices and preferences are recorded and get examinated on their qualities. He uses familiar objects in distorted ways, turns action sequences backwards or focuses details of the human body to intervense in socially formed structures.

From the collective society, he uses pattern numerous associations. There are the relations of man to his surroundings and the experience of daily life (breathing, chewing, sleeping, etc.) he is interested in. In all his work Wegerer shows processual what the average quantity of sculptural quality emerges is when a human being confrontational meets on a material or an element (dust, air, water, etc.). He goes from an expanded notion of sculpture. The interest is not the formal product, the object itself, nor its aesthetics. To create a work of art can also be just an ordinary stand out against its logical context, words and meaning attached to the outside of the narrow range of the visible stem.

The search for the position and the role of an artist in society, the treatment of current and enduring issues and attempts to answer them driving Roland Wegerer work forward.