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WOHLFARTH tina
Statement
Tina Wohlfarth - exaggerated realism
The mezzotint work is my most important approach in printmaking. I‘m a representational artist. Humans, either specific or anonymous take in my work center stage and are often represented as monochromatic portraits. I depict contemporary situations sometimes including alienating and distressing motifs. The viewers often are first attracted by the aesthetic qualities. Afterwards the details and deeper meaning of the piece become clear. It is not just for the sake of aesthetics, but about the second look at the sometimes disturbing moment behind it and also about the search for meaning. I also appreciate is the illusion of being transparent and the character of an X-ray image. In addition to the mezzotint I insert a new image plane by embossing and cutting the paper. The goal is a new aesthetic and spatial dimension, in which color is created where there is no physical one - through light and shadow only.
© Tina Wohlfarth, Dresden, September 2021
Vita
| 1978 | born in Saalfeld, lives and works in Dresden |
| since 2019 | Cooperation with the gallery FLOX |
| PRIZES | |
| 2019 | Juror Award und Takach Press Award der 12th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition 2019 |
| 2018 | Gold Prize der International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2018 ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts |
| 2018 | Gold Prize der International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2018 ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts |
| 2018 | International Graphic Triennial Frechen: Audience Award |
| GRANTS | |
| 2015 | Konstlitografiska Verkstaden Tidaholm/Schweden Residence scholarship for lithography |
| 2012 | Zygote Press Cleveland/USA, Residence Scholarship for Printmaking, guest lecture in the field of Printmaking: Cleveland Institute of Art, University of Kent, University of Akron/Ohio |
| WORKS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS | |
| Takatch Press Corp. Collection National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung Kunstsammlung City of Dresden Neue Sächsische Galerie Chemnitz |
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| EDUCATION/STUDIES | |
| 2009-2016 | Master class with Prof. Elke Hopfe and Prof. Martin Honert, University of Fine Arts Dresden (parental leave 2010- 2013) |
| 2003-2009 | Study of Fine Arts, HfBK Dresden |
| 1998-2001 | Studies of Art Education, University of Erfurt |
Exhibitions (Solo and Group)
| BIENNALE | |
| 2019 | "12th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition 2019", Center for Contemporary Printmaking , Norwalk, USA |
| 2019 | "7th Guanlan International Print Biennial China 2019", China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China |
| 2018 | "International Graphic Triennial Frechen", Frechen |
| 2018 | "International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2018 ROC", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung |
| 2014 | "International Graphic Triennial Frechen", Frechen |
| 2014 | "13th Lessedra World Art Print Annual — Mini Print 2014", Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia |
| 2012 | "VIII. International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2012", Museum of West Bohemia, Pilsen (CZ) |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTION |
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| 2019 | "ORPHELIA" - Gallery art+form, Dresden |
| 2019 | "Sichtfeld/Field of vision", District Savings Bank Nordhausen |
| 2017 | "verdichten/summarize", Protestant Academy in Meissen with Else Gold and Heike Wadewitz |
| 2017 | "unter vier augen/In private", Saxon State Parliament", Sächsischer Landtag, Dresden, mit Anne Rosinski |
| 2016 | "Prints and paintings", ART isotope Galerie Schoeber, Duesseldorf |
| 2014 | "Meanwhile", take off Gallery, Duesseldorf |
| 2013 | "Realities", Gallery Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz, Dresden |
| 2012 | Myers School of Art/ University of Akron, Akron/ Ohio (USA), mit Heike Wadewitz |
| 2012 | "Foreign Affairs XV", Zygote Fine Art Press, Cleveland/ Ohio (USA), mit Heike Wadewitz |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS SELECTION |
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| 2018 | "Kunst18", 24th Internatiobnal Art Fair, Zurich |
| 2018 | "100 Sächsische Graphiken/100 Graphics of Saxony", Neue Sächsische Galerie/ The New Gallery of Saxony, Chemnitz |
| 2016 | "Winter 2016", Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden, with Annedore Dietze, Katrin Feist , Michael Freudenberg, Max Grand-Montagne, Helene B. Grossmann |