Laokoon Sculpture

Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune,1989 Art critic Mathias Wolf was born 1952 in Luetjenburg, Germany.Mathias Wolfs drawings are cool, diamond-hard representations of a vision fundamentally romantic.Wolf grew up in a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He lived there for 50 years, before he moved to Bavaria, so it is no exaggeration to say his pieces are concerned with northern light.But as was true in the work of many northen European artists from the turn of the century, Wolfs light expresses various internal states and an ever-questing romantic drive toward perfection.This drive is linked to his working in ballpoint pen, an unusual and labor-intensive medium.He wields the pen lightly, so it barely touches the paper, leaving a miniscule increment. Thousands, perhaps millions, of these dots make up each image.Wolf never plans his images beforehand; it is a point of honor with him that they developSpontaneously. He must exert an almost superhuman control, as one false move could destroythe drawings. The technique is so painstaking that we may never get away from noticing and marveling at it first.Alan G. ArtnerMathias Wolfs Network is not concerned with virtual communication in cyberspace but rather with the most basic, tactile forms of human interaction. Wolf conceived Network as a performanc piece " Tie & Tie Together " in which knots are tied and people are tied together. These connections create a net which catches the experiences of human existence: feelings, music, light, objects.Since its inception Network has developed an increasingly independent existence. With each installation it changes form and expression. It might integrate itself as part of the site or dominate the site.