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Durchblick

Daniel Bucur always manages to amaze the viewer. He directs the eye to the solid triangle, which continues in deep incisions. And suddenly you realize that wood cannot simply be bent! There must have been magical forces at work here.

Daniel Bukur's magic lies in making things, even made of a hard, non-bendable material like oak, look soft and fragile. The artist bridged this squaring of the circle with a model made of leather, whose shape he later transferred one-to-one to the hard oak wood. The perfect curves against the grain, the resulting suppleness testifies to perfection and is due to careful and patient handwork. The emergence of the look-through also brings to mind real life. Often you think you have completely grasped a situation in a fraction of a second, but only on closer inspection you realize its complexity and also beauty.

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Neugierig

An eye that looks attentively into the distance. It perceives all movements, it is concentrated, it observes the entire environment. It turns in all directions and looks down on Stephansplatz.

The challenge for the artist lay in directing the natural structure of the wood into new directions in such a way that the object awakens to new life like a sensory organ. The sculpture projects vertically upward and was made from a solid piece of squared ash wood. The body is rough but regularly carved. From it protrudes a piece that is bent from the vertical to the horizontal axis. This changes the dynamics, the shape now goes into the width and distance. This impression is supported by a completely contrasting surface texture. The rounded part is now carefully polished and treated with shellac. This gives it not only the shape, but also the moist, shiny surface of an eye. One would touch the body, but not such a fragile and intimate sense organ as the eye. The eye is in tension, it does not observe inertly. The eye is alert and filled with curiosity.

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Quasimodo

Consuming passion represents this bust. In Victor Hugo's world-famous novel, Quasimodo, the misshapen bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda. Against the backdrop of late medieval Paris, a turbulent story spins between betrayal and passion.

The sculpture consists of a piece of oak in its entirety. The material refers to the protagonist's toughness in facing the world with resistance. Head slightly tilted, as if naturally grown, a thoughtful mind can be glimpsed under the surface of the simple-minded. The rough-hewn structure seems repulsive at first sight, but it shows the emphatic features of one drawn by fate. The irregularity of the grain on the sitter's face, marred with holes and inclusions, underscores the fearsome features of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Branches sprang from the center, these places now form the eyes. The surge of blood, of love is underlined by the orange stain. The tragedy of the sculpture resembles the turbulent end of the novel: Esmeralda is executed and Quasimodo dies in an unexplained way, in his hands the dead lover.

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Zwei Vögel

The chick hungrily stretches its beak upward. I wonder what the mother bird will bring to feed? The sculpture is narrow and vertically arranged. We see two birds, their heads and their long straight beaks striving towards each other. Below, the young bird, dependent and greedily looking up. Above the caring mother, looking down with love to the child.

The object was made from an elongated piece of linden. A tree that was considered sacred to the Slavs and Germanic tribes. Often a linden tree was located in the center of the village square and symbolized the place of conviviality. Dancing, gossiping and living took place under them. But also jurisdiction took place under lime trees, which in ancient times were considered trees of truth. This indissoluble truth of unrestricted motherly love and the sincere trust of her offspring is symbolized by this sculpture in an excellent way. The rough surface gives the pair of birds a natural look. The slightly yellowish coloring is a reference to the matte sheen of the feathers. From the tree of life and truth, a symbol of dependence and symbiosis was created, which is given additional tension by the separation of the two beaks. Helplessness, caring and the feeding of natural needs are depicted in a touching way. The chick hungrily stretches its beak upward. I wonder what the mother bird will bring to feed? The sculpture is narrow and vertically arranged. We see two birds, their heads and their long straight beaks striving towards each other. Below, the young bird, dependent and greedily looking up. Above the caring mother, looking down with love to the child.

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