Under the laconic title “Skulls”, Peter Sandbichler has been modeling animal skulls since 2014, which manifest themselves as oversized zoomorphic bone structures. A kind of baroque vanitas meditation is translated into contemporary materialities and perceptual sensibilities. The artist uses image templates or real skeletons to recreate the individual skulls in cardboard and other waste materials as a negative mold, then casts them with self-hardening substances such as acrylic resin or glass-fiber-reinforced plastic.
Thomas Mießgang