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Among The Serious And Playful Things (2011)
Collective exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini. Onishi Gallery, New York, 5 – 18 May 2011 Images of the installation dedicated to the works of Monika Wolf:
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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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![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…
