Puppets with missing parts completed with 3d prints and dressed in rags.
Business Minotaur
Cowboy
Knight
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Exploring the garden of KALI Gallery you can currently see „schneemann1“ by the Swiss artist Florian Maritz, as part of his Archiv for Future - Series.
Florian Maritz
schneemann1
(snowman1)
3d print, recycled plastic
78 3/4 × 27 1/2 × 19 3/4 in
200 x 70 x 50 cm
unique
2025
Scanned, digitized, preserved, and archived. The 3D print of schneemann1 originates from a snowman built in the winter of 2020–2021. It is one of the earliest entries in Archive for Future, an ongoing project by Florian Maritz that seeks to digitally secure everyday objects threatened by disappearance.
schneemann1 was captured at the edge of its own impermanence—melting under rising temperatures. Rather than letting it vanish unnoticed, Maritz scanned the snowman mid-decay, freezing it in time. The resulting 3D-printed sculpture doesn’t merely represent the snowman; it manifests the process of its own dissolution. The transformation from ephemeral snow to enduring plastic becomes both a poetic and critical gesture.
In Archive for Future, Maritz uses digital technologies not to celebrate permanence, but to confront loss. His project functions as a speculative archaeology—an archive of things too trivial, too temporary, or too tender to be remembered by traditional systems of preservation. By saving schneemann1, he elevates a fleeting childhood act into an artifact of cultural and
environmental reflection.
As climate anxieties grow and seasons become less reliable, the snowman becomes more than a nostalgic figure—it is a symbol of precarity. schneemann1 embodies this: a humorous, melancholy, and strangely heroic attempt to preserve the unpreservable. Through this gesture, Maritz questions what we choose to remember, and what future generations might discover in our digital remains.
@florianmaritz@kaligallerylucerne@n.k.a.l.i
Courtesy of KALI Gallery and the artist
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Konglomerate eines Überflusses
In Derma by @piuquarantuno
„I am fascinated by the amount of objects I consume and own. I often only realise this when I see the traces the objects leave behind. Mountains of cardboard, packaging and used objects accumulate.”
His remote residence provokes a lively influx of packages. As the cardboard piles up, Maritz shapes small models out of aluminum foil. He then enlarges the miniatures and creates monuments by translating them into cardboard. Attracted and at the same time repelled by material excess, the artist creates sculptures in which he recognizes a self-portrait.
📷 @gabrielespalluto
Not the Diversity I need.
@ansichtssachen_altdorf
1. Zero
2. Refresh
3. Sparkling
Eine Serie aus Holzskulpturen. Dabei handelt es sich um Flaschen oder Abwandlungen und Weiterentwicklungen davon. Zum Beispiel Tiere oder Pflanzen als PET-Flaschen. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Überfluss und Überangebot an Konsumprodukten mit dem Beispiel von PET-Flaschenformen und Getränken. Dabei plädiere ich g gen diese Überforderung und für eine Diversität in anderen Bereichen, wie Flora und Fauna und in der Gesellschaft.
Erinnerung - Teil: 11
Scheuchen im und um den Stall - eine Serie von Masken vom Gitschener Künstler Florian Maritz @florianmaritz
Fotos: @florianmaritz
Haustier II
Seil, Karton, Holz
120 x 80 x 220cm
Glücklich und Dankbar dass ich mit dieser Skulptur einen Förderbeitrag gewonnen habe. Yeah danke @hausfuerkunsturi
