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Ernst Gamperl

  • BIOGRAPHY
  • Works
  • SIGNATURE WORKS
  • INSTALLATION IMAGES
  • STORIES
  • EXHIBTIONS
  • BIOGRAPHY

    Ernst Gamperl won the first Loewe Craft Prize in 2017 in recognition of his craftsmanship, and he has exhibited at numerous international art fairs including Design Miami, PAD London, FOG and Masterpiece, His work is also part of many international collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK; The Loewe Foundation; Fond National d’art Contemporain France; Museé des Arts Décoratifs de la Ville de Lausanne, Switzerland; The International Design Museum/Neue Sammlung, Germany; Collection Issey Miyake, Japan; and Amorepacific Museum of Art, South Korea. His solo museum exhibition, Dialogue with Wood, opened at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur in Switzerland in 2019 and toured to the Korean Craft Museum in Spring 2020. 
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    Master craftsman Ernst Gamperl has revolutionised the practice of wood turning by developing entirely new modes of working that push it to its technical limits. The artist principally uses the mighty European Oak tree and carefully selects his immense logs from sustainable sources – either from trees that could not stand their ground against the wind or were felled due to decay.

     

    Ernst turns the oak when it’s green and supple, to work in dialogue with the wood before arriving at a final shape; he is an expert in its drying properties and prophetically reads its movement as the sculpture finds its undulating form. The artist eschews uniformity and celebrates the imperfections present in the material, which tell the story of the tree’s momentous life and energy; the curved edges and bulges, the projections and indentations that emerge out of the natural deformation of the wood are an essential part of Ernst’s design. The immanent expressive power of the material is underscored by Ernst’s treatment of the surfaces: waxing and polishing, scrubbing out the streaks or carving filigree parallel grooves like velvet, contrasting smooth and shiny areas with rough-hewn, deeply scarred sections. These enriching elements draw us ever closer to the piece; the profundity of the work lies in Ernst’s ability to mine the emotional resonance that lies within the wood.

  • Works
    • Ernst Gamperl, 41/2023//190, 2024
      Ernst Gamperl
      41/2023//190, 2024
      Oak
    • Ernst Gamperl, 22/2024//200, 2024
      Ernst Gamperl
      22/2024//200, 2024
      Oak
    • Ernst Gamperl, 16/2024//210, 2024
      Ernst Gamperl
      16/2024//210, 2024
      Ash & four butterfly keys
    • Ernst Gamperl, 88/2022//200, 2023
      Ernst Gamperl
      88/2022//200, 2023
      Maple
    • Ernst Gamperl, 87/2022//200, 2023
      Ernst Gamperl
      87/2022//200, 2023
      Maple
  • SIGNATURE WORKS
    • Ernst Gamperl Oak Vessels, 2019 Acquired by LOEWE Foundation, Spain, 2024 Oak
      Ernst Gamperl
      Oak Vessels, 2019
      Acquired by LOEWE Foundation, Spain, 2024
      Oak
    • Ernst Gamperl 54/2022//180, 2022 Acquired by Design Museum, London, 2022 Ash
      Ernst Gamperl
      54/2022//180, 2022
      Acquired by Design Museum, London, 2022
      Ash
    • Ernst Gamperl 3/2024/7235, 2024 Oak
      Ernst Gamperl
      3/2024/7235, 2024
      Oak
    • Ernst Gamperl 5/2024//110, 2024 Oak & three butterfly keys
      Ernst Gamperl
      5/2024//110, 2024
      Oak & three butterfly keys
  • STORIES

    • Ernst Gamperl
      Video entries

      Ernst Gamperl

    • Signature Object, Signature in Wood Webinar. Glenn Adamson in conversation with Eleanor Lakelin, Ernst Gamperl and Christopher Kurtz
      Video entries

      Signature Object

      Signature in Wood Webinar. Glenn Adamson in conversation with Eleanor Lakelin, Ernst Gamperl and Christopher Kurtz
  • EXHIBTIONS

    • Urkraft: Ernst Gamperl
      Exhibitions

      Urkraft: Ernst Gamperl

    • The Natural Room ii at FOG
      Exhibitions

      The Natural Room ii at FOG

      19 - 22 January 2023
      The Natural Room collection is an approach to living through design that respectfully connects us to the natural world. It aims to create interiors that are of our moment –...
    • PAD London, Art Fair
      Exhibitions

      PAD London

      Art Fair 10 - 15 October 2023
      At PAD London we will showcase ‘Chamber’, a global survey of material-led, specialist endemic design. Chamber speaks to the abundance of the earth from which our artist-designer-makers sustainably source and...
    • Design Miami/ Paris, Art Fair
      Exhibitions

      Design Miami/ Paris

      Art Fair 17 - 22 October 2023
    • Monolith: Tefaf Maastricht , Art Fair
      Exhibitions

      Monolith: Tefaf Maastricht

      Art Fair 9 - 14 March 2024
    • Organic Futures: PAD London
      Exhibitions

      Organic Futures: PAD London

      8 - 13 October 2024

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