A pioneer of “Oil on Wood” or the plastic art of “three-dimensional painting” with room-spanning meshwork of black wooden compositions

They are fragments of branches, put together like a woven fabric, covered in black oil paint and defining a geometrical, three-dimensional space which confronts us and opens up for us a view of the world.
Bergmeier displays with his original work an independently formed line, which primarily seduces by its unusual material. After the sixteenth century painters moved towards canvas as the most prevalent carrier material used for applying colour pigment bound in oil. Bergmeier transfers the oil on wood method to a plastic art, which does not deny the origin of its material, and thereby inherently points out both the difference and commonness in the relationship between creative nature and artistic practice. For this purpose, Bergmeier uses excess natural material, which has accumulated after tree trimming on streets, etc.

This available material, resulting from a visual deconstruction of cultural landscape, is thus reshaped into a new structure by his work.  Beyond this, the concept of his compositions is to be interpreted in direct dialogue with the art of the oil on wood itself and the viewer’s position in front of the work. When developing his compositions, a process of removing layer by layer of a sheathed core is taking place. The visible objects of blackened wood may also be understood as a frame or a negative image of a sculpture, which in its actual sense could not be confined by any frame or limitation.