About the sculptures of Werner Bitzigeio

The artist Werner Bitzigeio uses industrially manufactured iron wire as a means of artistic expression, which he does not see as a functional building material, but as an independent material with high design potential. His wire works do not define space through mass, but make it visible through description – they create so-called "negative space".

His works consist of carefully wrapped wire structures, usually built around a prefabricated core with irregular geometry. Despite the heavy material, the objects appear light, dynamic, and open. They often develop an organic language of forms and represent "constantly changing movement that playfully describes the space."
Bitzigeio’s works stand in an art historical context with wire art pioneers such as Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso. Like them, he expands the concept of sculpture to include the aspect of spatial occupation. His works are characterized by transparency, lightness, and spatial openness, challenging traditional notions of heaviness, statics, and materiality.

A central theme is the relationship between body and space. In so-called "wire cubes" or "Zen space constructions," Bitzigeio addresses the overcoming of heaviness and creates transparent structures that generate an atmosphere of stillness and meditative immersion.

The organic forms, the play of density and openness, as well as the sensitive transformation of the wire material lead to an artistic statement about the rhythm of becoming and passing away. Thus, the works possess a strong, deeply human dimension that poetically interlinks space, time, and material.