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This monograph dedicated to the Austrian sculptor Karl Prantl (1923) is the catalogue to the exhibition “Un dialogo. Antonio Calderara, Giorgio Morandi, Karl Prantl” and showcases thirty works created between 1957 and 2002 from the artist’s collection in Pöttsching.
As Peter Weiermair explains, “Karl Prantl, one of the greatest European and international sculptors in stone, quietly turned eighty in Austria recently. Born in 1923, Prantl has travelled throughout his life, to Berlin, America and Japan and, after many years in Vienna, this pugnacious autodidact of cultural bureaucracy has returned to live in Pöttsching, a small town in Burgenland not far from the Hungarian border.
Prantl found, in the great Pannonian plains that open up towards the Orient, the place in which many of his large monumental works dialogue with the elemental parts of nature: trees, meadows, woods, horizon and sky. Hence his works are also ideal pieces for public open spaces.
This publication illustrates this situation, and was conceived as a foundation for the future. Anyone who wants to examine the life of Prantl must travel to where his works were created, as it is for Chillida.

The Morandi Museum exhibition documents – with a series of small-scale works – the richness of materials and archetypal shapes that Prantl, cyclical artist, continued to rework.
The show has been created mainly through active collaboration on the part of the artist’s daughter Katharina Prantl; it has been put together not simply as a first great exhibition of this artist’s work in Italy, but also as a record of the spiritual affinity between Prantl’s work and the rigorous and self-sufficient art of the Bolognese master Morandi, for whom light was central, as it is for Prantl and was for Calderara.”

Bologna, Morandi Museum
25 January – 28 March 2004

 

The book is available at the Skira bookstore in via Torino in Milan and in all Italian bookstores from January.