
Willy Verginer, "Una Storia Vera (girl)"
Bronze, gold leaf
27.50" x 22" x 25.5"
Willy Verginer, "La Notte di San Lorenzo"
Bronze and gold leaf
53" x 31.50" x 12"
Willy Verginer "Il Gioco Infinito"
Bronze and acrylic
83" x 27" x 31"
Willy Verginer, "Moongirl"
Bronze and acrylic
18" x 13" x 11"
Willy Verginer "Una Storia Vera" SOLD OUT
Bronze, gold leaf
27" x 23" x 25"
Willy Verginer, "Sungirl" SOLD
Bronze and acrylic
18" x 13" x 11"
Willy Verginer "White Box" SOLD
Lindenwood, acrylic and iron
59" x 25.5" x 26.75"
Willy Verginer, "Il Gioco Infinito" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
84.5" x 28.5" x 32.5"
Willy Verginer, "Gioco di Testa" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
44" x 12" x 12"
Willy Verginer, "Le Nuvole in Affitto" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
67.75" x 16.5" x 15"
Willy Verginer "Quello che io non ho è una camicia bianca" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
105" x 66" x 28"
Willy Verginer, "It Isn't a Game" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
63" x 38" x 20"
Willy Verginer, "Moongirl" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
58.25" x 15.5" x 15.5"
Willy Verginer "The Boy and The Sea" SOLD
Bronze, acrylic
24" x 11" x 7"
Willy Verginer "Dentro Il Riflesso" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
47" x 35" x 14"
Willy Verginer, "Where Has the Stockbroker Gone" SOLD
Lindenwood, acrylic and aluminium leaf
52" x 13.8" x 17"
Willy Verginer "Chimica del Pensiero - White" SOLD
Bronze, acrylic
22" x 6" x 5,5"
Willy Verginer, "Shine on Me" SOLD
Lindenwood, acrylic and gold leaf
47.25" x 15" x 11.5"
Willy Verginer "Chimica del Pensiero - Gold" SOLD
Bronze, gold leaf
22" x 6" x 5,5"
Willy Verginer "Acqua Alta Figure 9" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
79" x 23" x 18"
Willy Verginer "La Testa Nel Oro" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
38.5" x 16" x 11
Willy Verginer "Five Past Twelve" SOLD
Lindenwood, acrylic, aluminum leaf & iron
23" x 58" x 21"
Willy Verginer "Palvaz" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
37" x 27.5" x 18.5"
Willy Verginer " Acqua Alta Figure 2 " SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
35" x 12" x 8"
Willy Verginer "La Velocità Dell' Agnello" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
37" x 35" x 11"
Willy Verginer "Rootless" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
86" x 18" x 11"
Willy Verginer "I Pensieri Non Fanno Rumore" SOLD
Mixed woods, acrylic and gold leaf
60" x 39" x 32"
Willy Verginer "The Boy and the See" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
76" x 27" x 20"
Willy Verginer "Our head is round in order to enable our thoughts to change direction" SOLD
Applewood and acrylic
26" x 16" x 16"
Willy Verginer "On the other side" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
35" x 9" x 8"
Willy Verginer "Verde paradiso" SOLD
Lindenwood, acrylic and aluminium leaf
27" x 19" x 8"
Willy Verginer "Donkey Barrel" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
28" x 27" x 11"
Willy Verginer "Cecità voluta" SOLD
Lindenwood, acrylic and gold leaf
25" x 33"
Willy Verginer "Occhi Rossi" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
30" x 16" x 9"
Willy Verginer "La peau du vent" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
37" x 9" x 8"
Willy Verginer "Non credo a Superman" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
35" x 9" x 8"
Willy Verginer "Shine on Me" SOLD
Lindenwood, acrylic and gold leaf
75" x 14" x 12"
Willy Verginer "Da ramo a ramo" SOLD
Lindenwood, acrylic and brass
61" x 41" x 16"
Willy Verginer "Symmetrical Nature" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
9" x 8" x 37"
Willy Verginer "La pel dl vënt" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
68" x 12" x 12"
Willy Verginer "On the Road" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
51" x 32" x 9"
Willy Verginer "Where Has the Stockbroker Gone?" SOLD
Lindenwood, acrylic and gold leaf
51" x 12" x 16"
Willy Verginer "Ciüria de foies" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
55" x 18"
Willy Verginer "The Dark Side of the Bull" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
Willy Verginer "Ma l'aria per fortuna è fresca" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
Willy Verginer "Komm lieber Mai und mache..." SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
Willy Verginer "Spring Slippers" SOLD
Lindenwood and acrylic
Willy Verginer was raised in the Val Gardena region in Italy, surrounded by the summits, forests and the Dolomite Mountains which became an important influence in his work. As a teenager, he began his fine arts education in painting and studied at the Institute of Secondary Art Education in Ortisei in Italy. However, his gravitation toward woodwork and sculpture would lead him to seek training in the latter discipline. While in school, he enhanced his education by frequenting the studios of many sculptors in Val Gardena, renowned for its woodworking traditions since the eighteenth century. Although he successfully assimilated the artisanal and ancestral traditions of polychrome sculpture and integrated the traditional vocabulary of the profession, his ambitions proved to be more vast, universal and contemporary.
The technical processes adopted by Willy Verginer offer insights into his approach, which is at once figurative and conceptual. His sculptures are composed of several blocks of wood, which are dried naturally over six years to avoid morphing. He conceives, from these large masses, the forms of his sculptures with the help of a chainsaw and a hatchet before refining his work with chisels and small tools to work the eyelids or the earlobes of his figures. Despite their hyperrealist modeling, the resulting figures are devoid of facial expression; with their fixed gaze and apparent detachment, they are party to the mystery of representation, and establishing, especially in recent works, a compelling rapport with the absurd.
His series Human Nature, which bears the mark of environmentalist discourse, offers compositions that depict the industrial impacts on living things and their habitats. In this vein, Willy Verginer juxtaposes oil drums, wild animals and clear-cut forests in his sculptures. By reducing the theme of the forest to a single tree, he bears witness to the fragility of ecosystems and urges the viewer to protect them from the noxious effects of polluting industries. The grey or metallic sheen of the barrels spread across different elements of the sculptural compositions: an act of aggression representing pollution and the degradation of humanity. By employing the fragility and beauty of nature in an ironic and humoristic manner, Willy Verginer forces us to question the impacts of our daily actions.
Willy Verginer’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe, notably at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lissone and at the Cavalese Contemporary Art Center in Trentino, both in Italy. His works are also found in many private collections in Europe, the United States, and Canada.