Heinz Künzli

116

2023

This one of a kind art piece is textured with slate and marble powder. It has natural oxidation, Mars red pigment, pigment from Lares Peru. It is truly beautiful and intriguing.

This unique and colorful painting is textured with pure pigments on canvas. It includes marble powder from Carrara Italy, yellow and red pigments from Sicily.

CUBE, PYRAMID & SPHERE is a major work created over a five-year period. It is a variable installation, composed of 4 geometric sculptures of high-fired clay pigmented with oxides, a block of wood found in the ocean, river gravel, limestone, and slate shattered to fragments. Note the surface textures, the ground of natural stone, the colors black, umber, copper and tan throughout, the pattern of slate fragments. CUBE, PYRAMID & SPHERE is characteristic of Wortman's practice – warm, contemporary, uniquely crafted, yet speaks to ancient, primitive traditions of art-making that cross cultures and histories. Highly attuned to the art of Africa, the Middle East, India and Asia, his forms are organic abstracts with masculine and feminine attributes that resonate together as a pleasing enigma. They make sense immediately, yet never give up all their secrets. CUBE, PYRAMID & SPHERE was exhibited at BASE: Immersive Art Experiences, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, 2017. It was also reproduced in Tussle Magazine, alongside "An Interview with Harold Wortsman...

LI-1 Size 24″X24″X2" Light Installation Art. Materials: acrylic, silver acrylic frames, epoxy, natural stones, LED light. Year of Creation: 2022 This art is installation of plexigl...