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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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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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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…