During an intense creative period in the early 1990s, the Swiss painter and sculptor Martin Disler (1949–1996) worked on a series of life-size bronze sculptures. These 66 figures, which occupy a prominent position in Disler’s artistic work, were exhibited between 1991 and 1992 under the title The Shedding of Skin and Dance at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel as well as the Kunstforum of the Lenbachhaus Munich.

In 2019, 21 of the sculptures of the group were brought together again thanks to private and public loans and were exhibited in Sculpture Park Waldfrieden in Wuppertal. Please refer to the following link: https://skulpturenpark-waldfrieden.de/en/exhibitions/current/details/martin-disler-haeutung-und-tanz.html

The expressive and equally fascinating and yet unsettling figure allow us a glimpse into the restless creative energies which were involved in Disler’s work. The sculpture arose from an inner irrefutable necessity characterized by the use of physical force and the immediacy of gesture.

The work is unique, the plaster was destroyed after the cast been made.

See Exhibition History and Bibliography for further information.