spot°light: Tim Wolff
03 Feb - 17 Mar 2012
spot°light: TIM WOLFF
3 February - 17 March, 2012
Tim Wolff (b.1976, lives in Munich) works primarily in two media: drawing and video. All works display a pronounced interest in dynamics, for example as they are embodied in the contemporary city: a place not only of urban motion and interaction, but, owing to the state of permanent change, a venue with a huge creative potential that Wolff has appropriated for his formal and content-related means of expression.
In his video work Affenzahn the artist reflects on the rapid transformation of urban landscapes. To this effect, he has created a collage out of 30 video recordings of collapsing building complexes via a corner view projection in such a skilful manner that an impression of a unified image is evoked. It soon becomes clear, however, that this is a fictional urban landscape whose growth and breakdown actually follows utopian laws, as the filmed structures, with few exceptions, are of identical buildings that again and again collapse or re-erect.
Whereas the simultaneity of the image sequence evokes a disturbing feeling of concurrency, the rhythmic repetition generates a remarkable image that not only conveys a physical in situ feeling, but also - intensified through the depiction of the situation in time lapse - captures the continual cycle of building up and breaking down.
Collapsing buildings and the accompanying topos of the ruins, is also the subject of a series of video stills. However, in these photos the artist has dispensed with the process of reconstruction. Instead, he documents the collapse up to the point at which nature has reclaimed its space.
Additional video collages feature short film sequences from Vienna. Here, the artist reveals his handling of the theme dynamics, among other ways, via the rhythm of the edited image and sound sequences, whereby the 3/4-time and images shown are reminiscent, in an almost synaesthetic way, of the city of waltzes.
In the exhibited drawings, Tim Wolff creates, with a minimum of lines, geometric forms that are suggestive of buildings and structures. Here, too, dynamic processes are at work which not only find their expression in the artist’s use of line, but that are also fundamental to the medium of drawing. Wolff’s drawings are always carried out spontaneously, without preliminary sketches, and with XXL markers. They make indirect reference to the presented monitor work whose video content shows collapsing block formations. The contour lines applied to the monitor are the only architectural elements that remain; movement is frozen. Here, drawing and video merge and supplement one another. Via this trans-medial process, the artist realizes his interest in the procedural on the methodical level as well.
In an art historical context, Tim Wolff’s works mirror the objectives of Futurism - an art movement that propagated the tenets of “universal dynamism” while portraying the dynamics of simultaneously running processes as are found in the modern metropolis, for example.
3 February - 17 March, 2012
Tim Wolff (b.1976, lives in Munich) works primarily in two media: drawing and video. All works display a pronounced interest in dynamics, for example as they are embodied in the contemporary city: a place not only of urban motion and interaction, but, owing to the state of permanent change, a venue with a huge creative potential that Wolff has appropriated for his formal and content-related means of expression.
In his video work Affenzahn the artist reflects on the rapid transformation of urban landscapes. To this effect, he has created a collage out of 30 video recordings of collapsing building complexes via a corner view projection in such a skilful manner that an impression of a unified image is evoked. It soon becomes clear, however, that this is a fictional urban landscape whose growth and breakdown actually follows utopian laws, as the filmed structures, with few exceptions, are of identical buildings that again and again collapse or re-erect.
Whereas the simultaneity of the image sequence evokes a disturbing feeling of concurrency, the rhythmic repetition generates a remarkable image that not only conveys a physical in situ feeling, but also - intensified through the depiction of the situation in time lapse - captures the continual cycle of building up and breaking down.
Collapsing buildings and the accompanying topos of the ruins, is also the subject of a series of video stills. However, in these photos the artist has dispensed with the process of reconstruction. Instead, he documents the collapse up to the point at which nature has reclaimed its space.
Additional video collages feature short film sequences from Vienna. Here, the artist reveals his handling of the theme dynamics, among other ways, via the rhythm of the edited image and sound sequences, whereby the 3/4-time and images shown are reminiscent, in an almost synaesthetic way, of the city of waltzes.
In the exhibited drawings, Tim Wolff creates, with a minimum of lines, geometric forms that are suggestive of buildings and structures. Here, too, dynamic processes are at work which not only find their expression in the artist’s use of line, but that are also fundamental to the medium of drawing. Wolff’s drawings are always carried out spontaneously, without preliminary sketches, and with XXL markers. They make indirect reference to the presented monitor work whose video content shows collapsing block formations. The contour lines applied to the monitor are the only architectural elements that remain; movement is frozen. Here, drawing and video merge and supplement one another. Via this trans-medial process, the artist realizes his interest in the procedural on the methodical level as well.
In an art historical context, Tim Wolff’s works mirror the objectives of Futurism - an art movement that propagated the tenets of “universal dynamism” while portraying the dynamics of simultaneously running processes as are found in the modern metropolis, for example.