Dominique Mückli

Dominique Mückli is a self-taught sculptor. The artist used the diacritic umlaut (German Umlaut) in reference to his distant Swiss origins. His father, Lucien Mückli, born in 1934, an electrician, is the descendant of Hans Heinrich Möckli, a Protestant immigrant from the Canton of Thurgau (Switzerland), in Alsace Bossue, around 1650, after the Thirty Years War. At the end of his classical studies, he worked in several trades, in particular that of stonemason. Since childhood he has liked to work with malleable materials (wood, clay, stone ...). Attracted by beautiful things, he frequents churches to admire the paintings and especially the magnificent sculptures they house. He is documenting the works of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Very quickly seduced, he undertakes an artistic training as a stonemason and, after a stay in the studio of the sculptor Livio Benedetti, he invests in sculpture. Fantastic metamorphism and symbolism are the guidelines of his work. Faithful to the absolute eye, he tunes lines and volumes while imbuing his transformed works with truth, power, sensuality and emphasizing what will offer easy reading. If he gives primacy to sculpture, like all self-taught artists, he also visits the fields of painting, music and architecture. He is also fascinated by geometry, stereotomy and especially spirals. Among his works, we can cite: the Object Body, the Reverence of a God, El Toro, the Refusal of the Fight.