Wilma Kun
Via Eustachi 52
20129 Milan
Italien (Italia)
++39 0229515284
Kunstart: Skulptur
Technik: Raum-Installation
Stil: Minimal / Konzeptkunst
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Artist\\\'s Statement
The artistic work that I have been developing for several years is based on the idea of identity.
In order to focus better this concept, I have ideally subdivided it in three areas of research.
First of all, I concentrated on the elements which form the idea of personal identity.
There are plenty of aspects that I have been considering since I started, such as:
- the sexsual identity and its connections
- the capacity of perception of ourselves and the reconstruction of identity?s idea.
- the racial and cultural identity
- the physical changes, in the long run, which modify the perception of ourselves
- the memory as reconstruction of ourselves. In relation to this I have made use of some photos of my family to create material?s dolls which represent them.
At this point I started to work at the second area of research, that is ,the use of masks and material?s dolls.
The mask is used as element of representation of a symbolic identity. He who wears the mask, assumes an other identity and on the contrary the mask takes possession of of the identity of the person who wears it.
The idea of identity at this level is connected with the representation of the subject and it isn?t connected any more with one?s own indivivduality.
The last one area of research is connected with the influence of some aspects of contemporary culture, such as: the social contaminations, the influence of media on social behaviours, the changes in the capacity to recognize ourselves or to belong to social models.
About technical issues, first of all, I have to say that all my works start from the realization of a tracing of my body.
This tracing is periodically realized, just to record the changes of my body , in the long run.
Most of my works are realized with a rubber which is poured inside the tracing. In this way I obtain a skin which reproduces the image of myself.
Usually these rubber?s bodies are sewn each other or on the material?s dolls that I create. As you can see in the previous images.
I don?t use only installations but also other ways. I have realized some works using the photograpy and I have just ended my first video.
However I always use my image in all my works, indipendently by the techniques..
I mention of the text - interview, of the journalist Claudia Barana. This resume very well my work.
...\\\" Emptied, without bones or muscles, the bodies multiplied and become the ground where the artist\\\'s experience took root.
They are latex casts, the images of the body that repeats itself, shows itself, and splits. It is only a thin porous membrane through which we perceive and are perceived. Skin - bodies that demonstrate evolution and aging, that represent the limit, the diaphragm that separates us from others but at the same time allows us to communicate with them. To adapt to Wilma kun\\\'s artistic reserch, the skins are compressed to fit into a transparent box or expanded to become a sculpture, a curtain, a carpet, a cushion or simply a mask. The brasilian artist makes a series of casts of her own body using an artisan method: she waits patiently for the latex and rubber wrapped around her body to take shape and make the invisible become visible. Year after year she sees her figure change. A process that leads the artist to think about her own identity and compare it with that of the viewers. \\\"My body becomes an icon that allows me to talk about identity, mine and that of others. I am questioning the way we perceive ourselves and others. The representation we
have of ourselves.\\\"...
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Born in Sao Paulo (Brazil). Lives and works between Milan(It) and Rotterdam (NL)
ARTISTIC CURRICULUM
2001
Diploma of Painting - Fine Arts Academy Brera, Milan, Italy.
1989
Bachelor Degree of Visual art, specialization in Sculpture - Faculty of Art Saint Marcellina, Sao Paulo - Brazil.
News
- Opening: 7th October at 8pm- Galeria Quarta Parede - Sao Paulo- Brazil
www.galeriaquartaparede.com
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
"Verlicht" Arte sin Limetes Gallery, Den Hague-NL
"Hoogtij#25" Arte sin Limites Gallery, Den Hague - NL
"Struktura" Mavv -Rotterdam- NL
2010
\"Freedom\" Arte sin Limetes gallery - Den Hague - NL.
\"Miocinesia nell\'Arte d\'oggi\" curator Antonello Tolve - Salerno- IT.*
\"CRTL + ALT + B\" - Dagmar De Pooter Gallery - Antwerp - B.
\"Shaved or Natural\" ( all girls show)curator: Abner Preis - Gallery 182A - Rotterdam NL.
2009
Dangerous Liaisons - Kunstenlab -Deventer -NL
- Rair 2# - Rotterdam - www.rair.nl
- Italian Restyle- curator: Barbara Fragonga - Arthouse Tacheles New Gallery -Berlin - www.tacheles.de
-\"Don\'t Touch me\": reflection on perception of incommunicability in our time. En Plein Air Arte Contemporanea. Stradale Baudenasca n.118 - Pinerolo (To) - Italy.
-HEP 2009 Australia -HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT -24 Feb - 09 March -Guildford Lane Gallery - Melbourne- Australia.
2008
\\\"Summer Kisses\\\" curators Maurizio Coccia e Enzo De Leonibus, Palazzo Lucarini (Trevi) and Museo Laboratorio Ex Manufattura Tabacchi (Città? Sant\\\'Angelo), Italy
2007
\\\"Godart 2007\\\" Museum Laboratorio Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Città? Sant\\\'Angelo (Pescara), Italy.
2006
\\\"Migra-Azione\\\" curator Maria Rosa Pividori and Pino Diecidue, Palazzo Broletto, Novara, Italy.*
\\\"Donne fuori dal limite\\\" curator Maria Rosa Pividori, Museum Malandra, Vespolate (NO), Italy.*
\\\"Il proprio Luogo\\\" curator Maria Rosa Pividori, Castello Boromeo, Truccazzano, Italy.*
\\\"Godart 2006\\\" Museum Laboratorio Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Città Sant?Angelo (Pescara), Italy.
2005
\\\"Il Corpo, l\\\'Abito, la Mente\\\" curator Maria Campitelli - Trieste, Italy.*
\\\"Godart 2005\\\", Museum Laboratorio Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Città Sant\\\'Angelo (Pescara), Italy,
2004
\\\"Project Maionese- 7? edition\\\", \\\"Il Corpo Solitario. Ovvero la necessità? dell\\\'autorappresentazione\\\", curator George Bonomi - Gallery En Plein Air ,Contemporary Art, Pinerolo (TO), Italy.*
2002
\\\"Periscopio 2002\\\", curator Francesco Tedeschi , Angela Madesani and Paolo Campiglio, Milan, Italy.*
\\\"Ausstellungsreihe junger Kunstlerinnen aus Italien\\\", \\\"Oktober 2001/Juni 2003\\\"; in the Kulturzentrum Alte Kaserne, Winterthur - ZH.*
\\\"Extra Bienal\\\", curator Sandra Bighetti and Isabela Prata, Saint Paul-Brazil.
Solo Exhibition
2011 - Arte sin Limites Gallery, Den Hague, NL
2010 - Kunst & Complex , Rotterdam, NL
- Galerie De Aanschouw - Rotterdam, NL
2009 - Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, NL
2005 Artra, Milan, text Gabi Scardi, Italy.*
2002 Artra, Milan ,Italy.
2001 Contemporary Art Center Spazio Umano, curator Enrico R. Comi, Milan, Italy.
1999 Artra, Milan, Text Francesco Lucchini, Italy.*
Selected Biblioghaphy
2011
-"Verlicht" -Arte sin Limites - Den Hague (NL
-"Hoogtij#25" - Arte sin Limites gallery - Den Hague (NL)
-"Struktura" - Mavv - Rotterdam (NL)
2010
- \"Miocinesia nell\'arte d\'oggi\" - Text: Gillo Dorfles, Antonello Tolve.
2009
-“Italian Restyle” – text: Barbara Fragogna, Martin Reiter,Gabriella Pelloni and Marco Mancassola.
Arthouse Tacheles, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 978-3-9813177-1-8
-“Don’t touch me” –text: Michele Bramante, Gallery En Plein Air ,Contemporary Art, Pinerolo, Italy.
-Artkey Magazine – text by Carla Ferraris - “Wilma kun e lo studio identitario dell’essere”, Italy.
2008
-Daily paper ?Il Sole 24 Ore?- ArtEconomy24 ? 1st of November, Italy.
-Review of Art ?Con-fine? n? 11 September ? text by Carla Ferraris ?The Research of the Identity?, Italy.
-Internet Review- www.fratturascomposta.it
2007
-Review of Architecture, Design, Culture, Arts - \\\"Casa International\\\" n? 49 - 2007/03, P. 52-55 China.
2005
-Claudia Barana \\\"Il corpo come luogo della scoperta\\\"- Magazine fashion,design, management \\\"Activa\\\", n? 40 april/may, p. 36-43. Italy.
2004
-Rocco Moliterni \\\"You open that door is the art in one room\\\" -Daily paper \\\"the Press\\\",28th March, City Turin
-Alessandra Poggianti \\\"the Archives Young Artists - FLASH ART\\\" - Milan.
-Alessandra Poggianti \\\"La fisicità? moltiplicata di Wilma Kun\\\", Review of art \\\"Titolo\\\" n? 46 - 2004/2005 winter, p. 26-27.
2003
-Magazine \\\"the newspaper of the contemporary art\\\", Relationship 2002-2003, n? 218 of February.
2002
-Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath \\\"Junge Kunst im Kulturzentrum Alte Kaserne, Winterthur\\\" Daily paper \\\"Der Zurcher Zeitung\\\", Korpersprachen, N? 23 of 10th October , Zurich.
-Mimmo di Marzio \\\"A \\\"Periscope\\\" on the new promised of the art\\\" Daily paper \\\"Il Giornale\\\", Milan.
-Martina Corgnati \\\"Young people without frontiers. Here the artists today\\\"- Daily paper \\\"La Repubblica\\\", 6th October, Milan.
2001
-Magazine Avantgarde, N? 7/8 july/August, Milan, Italy.
Residence
-2011 -Kunst & Complex - Rotterdam,NL.
-2010 - Kunst & Complex - Rotterdam, NL.
-2009- Kaus Australis -Rotterdam,NL.
Conference
2011 - Talk -Rair#3 - Rotterdam, NL
2006- Accademia di Brera \\\"Identità? come memoria? Curator Tiziana Taconi - Milan
2005- Accademia di Brera \\\"Autoritratti? Curator Tiziana Taconi - Milan
- \\\"Corpo e a Subjetividade\\\" Faculty Senac - Sain Paul - Brazil
2002- Accademia di Brera -Curator Tiziana Taconi- Milan
Site
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery
www.wooloo.org/wilmakun
www.artreview.com
www.afonline.artistsspace.org
www.artslant.com
www.wilmakun.wordpress.com (blog)
www.rair.nl
*Exhibition Catalogue or Brochure
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