Herbert Golser - Palazzo della Corgna, Castiglione del Lago
“IL RESPIRO DEL LEGNO” intertwines with the rich history of the Palazzo della Corgna, once the residence of the della Corgna family and a stage for courtly splendor between the 16th and 17th centuries.
Within the frescoed halls by Niccolò Circignani, known as Il Pomarancio, where myths, military exploits, and allegories celebrate the power of the dynasty, Golser’s sculptures establish a unique dialogue between the lightness of carved wood and the grandeur of Mannerist painting.
The vernissage takes place on Thursday, 25th, at 5:30 PM, and the exhibition will remain open until November 9th.
Produced by Lagodarte in collaboration with the cultural association La Casa degli Artisti of Perugia and curated by Riccardo Freddo, who has a profound understanding of the artist’s work, the pieces emerge from a process of subtraction and attentive listening to the material. They seem to vibrate within the space, restoring to wood an ethereal and fragile dimension.
Their presence offers a poetic counterpoint to the epic and celebratory narrative of the frescoes, transforming the palazzo into a space for reflection, where past and present intertwine.
Golser works wood as if it were breathing: he hollows it, thins it, pushing it to the limits of its physical resilience, until it becomes almost transparent. Each sculpture becomes a fragment of silence, a threshold between nature and spirituality, inviting a rediscovery of slowness and the essence of materiality in an age dominated by speed.
IL RESPIRO DEL LEGNO is not merely an exhibition but an immersive experience: amid the ancient stones and frescoes of the Palazzo della Corgna, visitors are invited to perceive the hidden life of wood and, through Golser’s forms, reconnect with nature and the memory of time.
Herbert Golser, born in Golling, Salzburg, in 1960, lives and works in Klein-Pöchlarn, Lower Austria. His artistic practice focuses almost exclusively on wood and marble, transforming these materials into sculptures of extreme delicacy and refinement, pushing their physical limits to previously unexplored thresholds.
His works, at once archaic and contemporary, seem to emerge from ancestral memory while remaining strikingly relevant.
Graduating with honors from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Bruno Gironcoli and trained at the Technical School of Sculpture in Wood and Stone in Hallein, Golser has received numerous awards and participated in prestigious artist residencies, including the Fundación Torre-Pujales in Galicia and the Maltator Residency in Gmünd.
His works are displayed in public spaces across Austria, Hungary, and Italy, and he has been invited to international projects such as <THE-SOLO-PROJECT> in Basel. In 2021, his sculptures were presented at Kunstraum Villa Friede in Bonn. Distinct from contemporary conceptual art trends, Golser proposes a silent and intense poetics, beginning with the purest material to reach the essence of form and nature itself.
The exhibition IL RESPIRO DEL LEGNO is realized with the patronage of the Municipality of Castiglione del Lago, Italia Nostra, and the association I Borghi più Belli d’Italia.
