EXHIBITIONS / 2008 / FRANKFURT
BARBARA WOLFF
MULTIVERSUMVIEWS
Folding Space, 2008
Mdf, Digital print, Resin, Teppich, Federn
217 cm x 149 cm
217 cm x 149 cm
/ ENGLISH / DEUTSCH
PRESS RELEASE
In the exhibition Multiversum, Gallery Wilma Tolksdorf presents the new work from Barbara Wolff. The artist makes collages on her computer from a combination of found material and her own photographs, adding various conventional materials such as jute, carpet and cotton to the new works. Alongside large-format photo collages, the exhibition includes objects with which Barbara Wolff works in precisely the opposite way. Here photographs are incorporated into the objects. Barbara Wolf?s work links the principle of collage with assemblage, painting with constructive art. The artist?s work is characterised by diverse form, material and content. She combines both conventional and modern materials and real and unreal motifs.
In the work Evening on Matador, for example, a photo collage, which incorporates pieces of carpet by its lower edge, the carpet extends the pictorial space beyond the actual image and increases its objectuality. It produces a singular dialogue between the carpet?s traditional patterns and colours and the computer-collaged world of photocollage.
Barbara Wolf creates parallel worlds, where we encounter strange monsters. In the work Zombie, for example, a bat-like creature with wings made of palm leaves, flies towards us.
The normally temporal and locally unconnected motifs are combined using formal and ornamental analogies. The artist thereby raises questions about the definition of time and space and the relations of micro and macrocosms.
In the work Evening on Matador, for example, a photo collage, which incorporates pieces of carpet by its lower edge, the carpet extends the pictorial space beyond the actual image and increases its objectuality. It produces a singular dialogue between the carpet?s traditional patterns and colours and the computer-collaged world of photocollage.
Barbara Wolf creates parallel worlds, where we encounter strange monsters. In the work Zombie, for example, a bat-like creature with wings made of palm leaves, flies towards us.
The normally temporal and locally unconnected motifs are combined using formal and ornamental analogies. The artist thereby raises questions about the definition of time and space and the relations of micro and macrocosms.
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