Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (Bilingual edition)

Name: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (Bilingual edition)
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SKU: 9783775754194
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Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, an office manager in the former GDR and self-taught artist, employed her typewriter to craft abstract compositions merging Concrete Poetry, Dada, and Minimal Art. This bilingual edition accompanies the retrospective at MINSK Kunsthaus, showcasing her typewritings, prints, collages, and paintings. Her work explores ambiguity, intellectual freedom, environmental concerns, community, and communication with poetic subtlety and humour.
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Ideal for readers and art enthusiasts interested in avant-garde, concrete poetry, and politically charged artistic expression from the former East Germany.

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Employed as an office manager in the former GDR, and working as a self-taught artist, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt used her typewriter to create patterns and abstract compositions with characters and letters at the junction of Concrete Poetry, Dada, and Minimal Art. Her linguistic explorations that she developed further into collages later on are often based on ambiguity.

Published on the occasion of the large retrospective at MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, NICHTS NEUES explores her typewritings, prints, collages, and paintings in thematic episodes. Although Wolf-Rehfeldt discontinued her artistic practice after the fall of the Berlin Wall, her art has lost none of its relevance.

In a poetic, idiosyncratic, and often humorous way, the nonconformist artist explored themes such as environmental issues, intellectual freedom, community, and communication. Her sometimes subtle, sometimes more literal play with words, meanings, and forms continue to reveal the unexpected.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775754194

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 March 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 100 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Paola Malavassi
Text by Kornelia Röder
Text by Marie Gerbaulet
Designed by Fasson Freddy Fuss

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 225.0mm

Height: 285.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 104

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

RUTH WOLF-REHFELDT (*1932, Wurzen, Saxony) arrived in East-Berlin in 1950 and began to study philosophy. From the 1960s, she created paintings, pastels, drawings and, from about 1970, her so-called Typewritings. She actively participated in the international Mail Art program, sending her works across the globe. Only in recent years her work has been rediscovered though. In 2017 she was both a newcomer and a senior star of documenta 14.