Heimat (Homeland)

About the work

Aron Demetz created the large bronze sculpture Homeland for the Riverside Sculpture Park in Remagen: a life-size, female figure enthroned on a rough tree stump with its entire rootstock. Her gaze is directed into the distance. The smooth, naked body has taken the place of the tree trunk. This assimilation culminates in a metamorphosis that lets delicate branches with leaves sprout from her fingers, thus connecting the life of trees with that of humans. At the same time, however, there are the sprawling, bluish-black, tentaclelike roots. Deprived of their firm subsoil, they now seem to be looking to settle elsewhere and take root there. Given its title and close connection with nature, the sculpture, which stands before us like a symbol of the search for oneself, also raises the issue of home and belonging.

Aron Demetz *1972 born 1972 in Sterzing, South Tyrol, lives and works in Wolkenstein in Gröden, South Tyrol