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![D-Lucaya, 2018 - mixed media on canvas, cm 50x50]()
Lucaya Diary for Sylvia (Valeria Vaccari, 2018)
The works that Monika Wolf has created for this exhibition are the intimate logbook of a journey she made with her sister Sylvia that led her to the fine white sandy beaches of Lucaya on the island of Grand Bahama. On this occasion too, she brought along her tepee, the mobile home of the prairie…
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![Wo bist du blöde Sonne - Where are you stupid Sun, 2001 - oil and pencil on plywood, cm 43x61]()
Dove sei stupido sole – Where Are You Stupid Sun (Susanna Vallebona, 2017)
To describe the German artist’s particular work, it is necessary to trace her personal history. In the 1970s, as a young graphic designer, she visited the United States and Mexico on several occasions, where she came into contact with the history and ritual art of the Native Americans: she became deeply passionate about it and…
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![Shirt-Tree No. 4, 2008-2014 - oil and collage on canvas, cm35x35]()
Monika Wolf: Messaggi nel segno – Messages in the Sign (2014)
Personal exhibition curated by Enrica Pedretti, video by Nereo Rapetti and Valeria Vaccari. Spazio E., Ghemme (Novara), 18 July – 7 September 2014. “What fascinates me most in Monika Wolf’s enigmatic works is the intimately vital charge of her pictorial message, whose ‘sign’ becomes a language charged with mystery: it takes the observer into a…
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![History of a Kitchen, 2010 - details of the kitchen, table with Forteacqua assemblages (2002)]()
Story of a Kitchen (Vanessa Sorrentino, 2010)
Monika Wolf was born in Essen, Germany. She started her research with the association ‘Arte da mangiare’ (‘Art to Eat’) in 2002. Indeed, one would like to eat some of her works, capable as they are of stimulating all the senses. The sensuality of the painting in fact accommodates small grafts of organic materials such…
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![Roman Torso, 1991 - oil on canvas, cm 50x60]()
Appunti al telefono – Notes at the Phone (Valeria Vaccari, 2005)
Monika Wolf’s painting stems from a strong and evident dualism: on the one hand, the desire to define form, to rationally contain the magmatic matter of her art through rigorous geometry. Through the construction of a fantastic architecture suspended in the void, Monika presents us with the stratification of memories and recollections still alive in…
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![Nascita Registrata n.1432 (Registered Birth No. 1432), 2003 - mixed media on canvas]()
Plastica d’artista – Artist’s Plastic (Valeria Vaccari, 2003)
The essence of Monika Wolf’s work is the effect produced by the passing of time on material things. The original material is transformed and reassembled according to the artist’s unerring eye, which captures the tones of rust, the grain of wood, or colour washed by rain. In this way Monika Wolf creates portable microcosms, the…
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![Forteacqua, detail of an assemblage, 2002 - Società Umanitaria, Milan]()
Forteacqua (Valeria Vaccari, 2002)
Monika Wolf sets a table with the memories that the sea has given her back: fragments of glass, pieces of colored wood, rusted iron. The table is that of her childhood, the scene of family traditions and “rituals” that are always repeated the same over the decades. It is the vehicle through which the artist…
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![Friedhof, 1996 - collage on recycled wood, cm 42x47]()
What colour can a dream be? (Marina De Stasio, 1996)
For Monika Wolf painting is first and foremost a means to express oneself and to communicate; it is a process that begins with a sign, in other words, that starts from a form of writing which brings directly to the surface, without any filtre, an interior movement, and then finds form, depth, and complexity through…
