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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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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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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…
