Laurenz Stockner’s Objects Between Matter, Process, and Form to experience in an exhibition high in the Mountains of Val Gardena in Italy

A trace is never simply a mark. It is evidence of an encounter: between material and force, between movement and resistance, between what something was and what it has become. A trace carries time within it. It records processes that may no longer be visible as processes, yet remain embedded in the surface of things.

For more than two decades, Laurenz Stockner (*1971 Sant’ Andrea, Italy) has been working precisely within this space of transition. His practice begins with materials: copper, steel, silver, and tin become subjects of investigation, each material setting its own conditions and demanding a particular response.
 

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