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<< Return to list of essays and reviews
Philadelphia Weekly, November 19, 2003 Chips Ahoy by Roberta Fallon Fritz Dietel 's sculpture is elegant and naturalistic. Made of hundreds of wood chips glued together around bulbous, podlike understructures that are later removed, the hollow, woven-looking (or in the case of his new pieces, hairy-looking) sculptures evoke nature's bounty. There's always been the hint of violence -- split pod casings and the like. But with this new work, the painful, dangerous side of nature comes out of the closet. In pieces that wear their infrastructure (drips of colored epoxy glue) like a badge of honor, the artist has made works more animal than botanical, and more wounded than whole. With outer skins that look like animal pelts or hairy human arms and legs -- here covered with coagulated, bloodlike goo -- the sculptures convey a life force that's not so benevolent after all. A companion show of oil paintings by Csilla Sadloch nails the lyrical side of nature in sumptuous compositions that argue that the forest floor's an exquisite jungle. "Fritz Dietel and Csilla Sadloch," through November 22, 2003 from the Philadelphia Weekly November 19, 2003
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