Thoughts about my work with Caijou:
Petrified wood is to me as the primal testimony of nature. With Caijou I try to evoke the spirit that inspires the
beholders to think and to bring forth their emotions.
Petrified wood is to me as the primal testimony of nature. With Caijou I try to evoke the spirit that inspires the
beholders to think and to bring forth their emotions.
Freelance artist who lives and creates in Matrei/Br. - Tirol - Austria Born 1962. Graduated from the academy of metallurgy, HTL Fulpmes. 1983 graduated master blacksmith and metalworker.
After 16 years practical experience as artist blacksmith in the family business he became an independent freelance artist in 1997.
After 16 years practical experience as artist blacksmith in the family business he became an independent freelance artist in 1997.
For Anton Amort creating art means to form ideas, to bend them and to take them apart into their essences.
To give new identity to old and new. Rigid materials that typically present themselves as unchangeable to man
are his raw materials. By using the elements of nature he transforms stone, metal and glass with his ideas.
The images that unfold give insight into the surreal fantasies about life's essence and the being of things,
their values and expressions. He creates new symbolic essence from materials left to the past by mankind.
Almost admonishingly, a new artistic transformation takes place that gives things a new appearance lifting them into new dimensions. Innumerable sketches precede his sculptures and metal pictures. Ultimately they are the result of incredibly creative ingenuity.
Countless exhibitions in Austria, Italy and Luxemburg as well as years of contractual work for city and government assignments made Anton Amort a renowned and most respected artist.
www.antonamort.com www.caijou.com
To give new identity to old and new. Rigid materials that typically present themselves as unchangeable to man
are his raw materials. By using the elements of nature he transforms stone, metal and glass with his ideas.
The images that unfold give insight into the surreal fantasies about life's essence and the being of things,
their values and expressions. He creates new symbolic essence from materials left to the past by mankind.
Almost admonishingly, a new artistic transformation takes place that gives things a new appearance lifting them into new dimensions. Innumerable sketches precede his sculptures and metal pictures. Ultimately they are the result of incredibly creative ingenuity.
Countless exhibitions in Austria, Italy and Luxemburg as well as years of contractual work for city and government assignments made Anton Amort a renowned and most respected artist.
www.antonamort.com www.caijou.com
Löwenkopf (Lionhead):
A combination of semiprecious brown caijou in shape of a lion head with stainless steel
aroused to a animated caracter. Two materials combined rarely on earth, alike in
hardness, oppositional in origin connected into a elemental shape. „With Caijou I try to
evoke the spirit that inspires the beholders to think and to bring forth their emotions.“
Head handcarved from brown petrified wood, fully polished, 18kg.
Dismountable (3 parts) and revolving asymetric column handmade of stainless steel
with a flat base and four adjustable legs incl. mounting connections for solid indoor or
outdoor installation.
Total height: 200cm
A combination of semiprecious brown caijou in shape of a lion head with stainless steel
aroused to a animated caracter. Two materials combined rarely on earth, alike in
hardness, oppositional in origin connected into a elemental shape. „With Caijou I try to
evoke the spirit that inspires the beholders to think and to bring forth their emotions.“
Head handcarved from brown petrified wood, fully polished, 18kg.
Dismountable (3 parts) and revolving asymetric column handmade of stainless steel
with a flat base and four adjustable legs incl. mounting connections for solid indoor or
outdoor installation.
Total height: 200cm
Schwarzer Kopf (Black Head):
A combination of semiprecious caijou and stainless steel aroused to an unique
caracter. Two materials combined rarely on earth, alike in hardness, oppositional in
origin connected into a elemental shape. „With Caijou I try to evoke the spirit that
inspires the beholders to think and to bring forth their emotions.“
Head handcarved from black petrified wood, semi polished, 38cm.
Asymetric column handmade of stainless steel with heavy base and four adjustable
legs incl. mounting connections for solid indoor or outdoor installation.
Total height: 190cm
www.caijou.com
A combination of semiprecious caijou and stainless steel aroused to an unique
caracter. Two materials combined rarely on earth, alike in hardness, oppositional in
origin connected into a elemental shape. „With Caijou I try to evoke the spirit that
inspires the beholders to think and to bring forth their emotions.“
Head handcarved from black petrified wood, semi polished, 38cm.
Asymetric column handmade of stainless steel with heavy base and four adjustable
legs incl. mounting connections for solid indoor or outdoor installation.
Total height: 190cm
www.caijou.com
