ALEXANDER WOLF
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
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C.V.
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WORKS
A. Single Shots
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B. Fragmented Master...
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C. Light Pattern
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
Berliner Alexander Wolf (*1965) worked as a gallery owner and art agent in the nineties. He informed himself about the international art scene, and registered many pictures and artistic positions to memory. So it is paramount for him as an artist to free himself from all pre-conceived notions and prior knowledge, to find the source of his own visions. "I try to put myself into a trancelike state by sitting there with my eyes open and staring into nothing, without concentrating on anything special. My mind must become clear and empty. No specific thoughts, no focus, no effort. I permit my view to become diffused. My surroundings become lost in a kind of blur. Then, a universe arises where fact and fantasy are one." Emptying oneself and in this unfocused moment seeing more clearly: Wolf's painterly works develop out of this conscious state of imaginative seeing. He photographs with a digital camera that has accompanied him since 1998, and yet paradoxically, Wolf's working method can be called "classical" – in the sense that he never edits or corrects his works at the computer, rather they are created in the moment he consciously “unfocuses” his camera. Be it photographs of real incidents, scenes from TV, films, or paintings, Wolf leads us to the very state between perception and introspection, where reality loses its edge and surrenders to daydreams. In his playful fields of color, constellations of figures, and the suggestively abstract narrative, Wolf reduces everything to its dreamy essence.Then, as a Master of Ceremonies, he welcomes us to experience the clarity of our own emotions reflected in the looking glass.
