Austria
Regina Laengle
Regina Längle is a sculptor based in Vienna. Through sculpture, drawing and photography, she explores inner states, fragility and the human form as it dissolves.
For Regina Längle, making art is a dialogue with the material, with the model and with herself, in which form is allowed to emerge rather than being imposed. Many of her figures in clay and bronze grow directly from modelling the clay; in recent works, a line drawn on paper or bent in wire has increasingly become the starting point before the form finds its body in stone.
Again and again, her work asks what holds us. Fragiler Frieden, a peace dove carved from Carrara marble only a few millimetres thick, hangs at eye level on thin threads: weighing just 600 grams, it moves with the slightest draught. She is currently working on a counterpart in black marble, Das Spiel mit dem Frieden (working title).
Alongside her sculpture, she draws from life, often letting the human figure dissolve into lines.
Her work is informed by phenomenology and her background as an existential-analytic psychotherapist.
