Wendell Castle e Roger Herman sono Maestri dell’anima.

”Il Maestro ti apre la porta, ma tu devi entrare da solo.”

Vincenzo De Cotiis

WENDELL CASTLE

Wendell Castle was an American artist born in Kansas in 1932. Often credited as the founding father of the American Crafts movement, Castle redefined sculpture and design by seamlessly merging the two into one discipline. He created unique pieces that blur the distinction between design and sculpture. Castle’s organic and whimsical approach to sculpture incorporated his own invented technique of carving into stacked laminated wood, known as lamination. His furniture represent a unique exploration of the qualities and possibilities of wood and fiberglass.

ROGER HERMAN

Roger Herman is an LA-based artist who was born and educated in Germany. His colourful ceramics and paintings have led to recognition as the West Coast parallel of the neo-Expressionist movement of the 1980s. Raw energy and an instinctual sensory relationship to colour and textures is immediately apparent through the bulk of his work, which spans from drawings to paintings, books to ceramics, t-shirts and woodcut prints. His wild blends of ad-hoc and quickly-dashed lines, shapes, opacities, smears layer together in awkward but satisfying compositions. Gestures are as boldly applied as covered up, allowing shapes to recede and reveal themselves simultaneously, in a true polyphony of style.

MAESTRI | MILAN | 2022