Elmar Trenkwalder

       

The Austrian artist Elmar Trenkwalder (1959) evokes a baroque world in his drawings, in which a peculiar fusion of eroticism and architecture is taking place. In his richly decorated architectonic spaces columns have phallic forms, ornaments turn out to be composed of entwined human figures.

The form language and exuberance are closely related to the baroque architecture once flourishing in Austria. Trenkwalder creates his own, sensual variant of this, first in drawings, but soon also in ceramics. His ceramic sculptures often are a cross between the well-known Kachelofen and an altar, richly ornamented with a lot of hidden details.