Franz Canins Can on the one hand be seen as a „classical“ woodcarving artist (sculptor and painter, even though most of the time sculptor) from Gröden, because he belongs to a tradition, a culture, a synthesis of art...
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Franz Canins
Can on the one hand be seen as a „classical“
woodcarving artist (sculptor and painter, even though most of the time
sculptor) from Gröden, because he belongs to a tradition, a culture, a
synthesis of art and handicraft; but on
the other hand bringing in “new wine” he is a radical “renewer”.
New wine – to explain it in exact words as renewer of
topics and meaning as well as the main idea.
The topics are owls and other animals, that usually
are beyond our everyday experience and perception, not to forget about the
esoteric part.
The dynamics of the owls, that almost “fly” (as
generally known owls are not really flying-birds, they are on the contrary
animals, that have something at them, which is beyond the usual view and way of thinking), where the
“silence” of the night and the darkness are never broken, on the contrary: they
are underlined even more.
Canins is a “ night-dreamer” (maybe, in the most noble
sense also a day-dreamer), who at the same time sees and masters reality.
Therefore there in no way a gap between reality and dreams, it could on the
contrary be called a synthesis, a Hegel synthesis or another one…that decision
is to be made by everyone himself or herself, just like innovation that
enriches or completes tradition.
Something similar should also be said about the relation between colour and form:
The form in Canins works “creates” colours, and from
the colours we perceive the real origin of the form (or the forms).
Dr. Prof. Eugen Galasso
