Christian Wulffen

Christian Wulffen (born February 5, 1954 in Bochum ) is a German artist .

Career

From 1981 to 1987 Wulffen studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . He graduated with a Master of Fine Arts . In 1990 Wulffen received a grant from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation . From 1990 to 1998 he taught at the Free University of Metzingen . He then worked for two years as the artistic assistant to Rector Paul Uwe Dreyer at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. From 2003 to 2012 he was an Associate Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio . Since 2012 he is Full Professor (Engl. For Chair ).

Classification of art

"I am concerned with how artists achieve knowledge and how they structure knowledge. [...]

To convey [a] notion of action as a mode of knowledge production, I use specific symbols for my work, one of these: boards that are pre-manufactured with three vertical slots and one horizontal slot (plywood).

From the viewer's perspective, the board has the option to hold various information. From my perspective, I see this as a concept to display information to exercise the different links in its display from one board to another. My environment is a grid — one of the hallmarks of modernist abstraction and capable, as a visual symbol, of signifying a whole system of art production and thought. This idea is depends on the perspective of the viewer and how that viewer is situated in a distributed network of production and reception of the information about this subject.

Crucially for me, the painting, the paper, and the board [...], simulate the portability of information. I am interested in its mobility as a sign in which sender and recipient receive the same information but decode it differently depending on their respective environments. "

- Christian Wulffen : Statement by the artist on the homepage of his faculty

"The construction of reality is based on the things we encounter, but crucially from the constructed nature of our perception itself. This could be the most general answer to the question of the meaning of Christian Wulffen's works. '"

- Michael Sturm Gallery

Private

Christian Wulffen is separated and has five children. His brothers Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen and Thomas Wulffen also deal with aspects of art .

Works (selection)

1996 pillar 3
2003 sheet on house two of a hundred possible
2003 Two sheets of a hundred possible enlarged over next to the feature page

Exhibitions (selection)

1990 Measure and Number - Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen
1995 Sentences - ACP Gallery, Zurich
1996 Works - Galerie Köstring-Maier, Munich
1998 Stand - Galerie Durhammer, Frankfurt am Main
2001 In wholesale & in detail works from A to Z - Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen
2003 New works - Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart
2007 How to Improve your English - McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University
2009 It Is, It Is Not - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland , Cleveland
2010 Bridges and Other Constructions , - Dallas Contemporary, Dallas
2016 Painting - Galerie Reinhold Maas, Reutlingen
2016 Sheet 1600/1000/16 - Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen

literature

Christian Wulffen . Cantz , Ostfildern, 1995. ISBN 3-89322-736-9
Christian Wulffen, booth . Singen Municipal Art Museum , Singen, 1997. ISBN 3-931629-04-X
For example or playing . Kehrer , Heidelberg, 2003. ISBN 3-933257-28-X