Reinhard Skoracki

Reinhard Skoracki was born in Germany and immigrated to Canada in the early 1990s. He studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design and received his BFA from the University of Calgary in 1997. Skoracki exhibited nationally and internationally, including in the 2015 NordArt (Germany), the largest exhibition of contemporary art in Europe, the Toyamura International Sculpture Biennale, the Museum of Fine Arts in Ostrava, Czech Republic, the WG Kunst in Amsterdam, and the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai, China. His work has been published in ‘New Art International’ (Book Art Press, NY, 1998), ‘Artful Jesters’ (Nicholas Roukes, 2003), and ‘The Sculpture Reference Illustrated’ (Arthur Williams, 2005).

Skoracki states: “My sculptures and figures are launched against a backdrop of social or historical drama. We have no choice but to constantly witness time’s passage within us and around us. At first glance, the toy-like sculptures seem supremely the gift of this time. This is camouflage.”

Reinhard Skoracki’s sculptures illustrate the essence of what it means to be human. His bronzes use the human form, along with humour and satire, to express social and political views.
Author Nicholas Roukes wrote about Reinhard’s work: “Unlike black humour, which presents a world gone mad and without hope, Skoracki’s art is admittedly caustic satire but closer to Pantagruelism—the Rabelaisian philosophy of dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humour.”