Catalogue Wilma Kun

WILMA KUN

PORTFOLIO 2014

My body becomes an icon that allows me to talk about identity mine and that of others ....

Wilma Kun

◄ ◄ Selfportrait (Adam and Eve) 2010 | cover cotton, felt, rubber, wood, dust (190 x 100 x 70 cm) ◄ Photo made by Antonio De Luca

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Inhoudsopgave The Artist / De Kunstenaar Statement / Introductie Installations / Installaties Objects/sculptures / Objecten en beeldhouwwerken Mixed Media / Mixed Media Photos / Foto’s Interview / Interview Curriculum

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The Artist

Wilma Kun born in Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Lives and works between Milan, Italy and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

â–˛Photo made by Antonio De Luca

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Statement The artistic work that I have been developing for some years is focused on the concept of identity.

This concept is declined, in all my works, through the use of my image.

There are different aspects of the concept of identity which I have considered in my artistic research, such as: - the sexual identity - the capacity of perception of ourselves - the reconstruction of identity’s idea through the personal and collective memory - as well as the influence of media in the contemporary culture for the definition of identity.

â–˛ Exercize for a Selfportrait 2009 rubber (head of the artist) â–şAleph, 2011 - cotton and rubber (50 cm x45 cm)

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Installations

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â–˛Memories 2# 2008 cotton, rubber, photo printed (55 x 70 x 46 cm) â–źThe Sibyls 2009 cotton, rubber, embroidery (head of the artist)

â—„ Untitled 1999 latex, plastic sack -size: 90 x 50 cm

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▲Memories #3 2009 cotton, rubber, photo printed (190 x 180 x 50 cm)

▼►Ecce homo 2009 cotton, rubber, plexiglas, wood, pencil (400 x 400 x 200 cm) ▼▼ Selfportrait 2001/2003 rubber, resin, synthetic hair -size: body of the artist

â–şBody portrait 2000 rubber (min. 35 x 23 x 11 cm, max. 45 x 170 x 11 cm)

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Objects/Sculptures

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▲ Body Portrait 2011 rubber, glass, plexiglas (D. 45 cm, height: 40 cm) ◄ Body portrait 2005 Rubber, plexiglas (size: various) ▼▼ Bozzolo 1997, nylon, dolls (25 x 30 x12 cm)

â–ş Mask 2011, drawing and embroidery (35 x 25 cm)

Mixed Media

â–˛Identity, 2011 drawing and embroidery (50 x 70 cm)

â–ź Selfportrait 2012, drawing and embroidery (folder)

► Serie “ Selfportrait” 2005 photograph - edition 1/3 (100 x 70 cm)

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Photo’s

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Resume WILMA KUN Atelier Borgestraat 24- st.116A NL 3027 EB, Rotterdam +31 0643226917 www.wilmakun.com wilmakun@gmail.com Education - 2001 Diploma of Painting Fine Arts Academy Brera, Milan, (I) - 1989 Bachelor Degree of Visual Art, specialization in Sculpture Faculty of Art Santa Marcelina, Sao Paulo, (BR).

Residence 2012 Bad - Rotterdam (Jun/Sep) 2011 Kunst & Complex – Rotterdam (Feb/Jun) 2010 Kunst & Complex – Rotterdam (Nov/Apr) 2009 Kaus Australis- Rotterdam (Jan/Apr) Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 “Open Studio-borgestraat 24” - Rotterdam 2013 “About A woman”- De Witte Slagerij – Rotterdam (NL)

- “Hoogtij#32” - Arte sin Limites gallery Den Hague (NL) 2012 “Happy and Party” - Galleria Skin – Brescia (I)

- “Werklicht Exposé” - Rotterdam (NL)

- “Open Studio” BAD – Rotterdam (NL)

- “Fragile” curator Teodora Kotseva in Atelier Tarwewijk- Rotterdam

- “Interactieve Buurtexpo”- Buurtflirt Salon- Rotterdam - (NL)* 2011 “Intrighi di fili 2”– Galleria Skin, Brescia*

- “Groeps Tentoonstelling” - Bob Smit Galery- Rotterdam

- “Verlicht” -Arte sin Limites, The Hague

- “Hoogtij#25” - Arte sin Limites gallery, The Hague

- “Struktura” - Mavv - Rotterdam 2010 “Terzo Rinascimento. Linguaggi della sensibilità ibrida” – curatori Angelo Cruciani, Carmelo Strano e Grace Zanotto – Galleria civica di Aci Castello - CT,(I)*

- “Freedom” – Arte sin Limites Gallery, The Hague

- “Miocinesia nell’arte d’oggi” curator Antonello Tolve – Quadriportico della Pia casa di Salerno – Salerno,(I)*

- “ Crtl + Alt+ B” – Dagmar De Pooter Gallery, Antwerp

- “Shaved or Natural (all girls show)”- curator Abner Preis- Gallery 182A, Rotterdam 2009 “Dangerous Liaisons” – with Anke Land , Robin Kolleman and Wilma Kun -Presentation Albert Van Der Weide, Kunstenlab, Deventer

- “Rair #2” – Rotterdam

- “Italian Restyle” – cutaror: Barbara Fragogna, Arthouse Tacheles New Gallery, Berlin

- “Don’t touch me” curators Elena Privitera, Michele Bramante, Gallery En Plein Air ,Contemporary Art, Pinerolo To, (I)*

- “Godart 2009” Museum Laboratorio Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Città Sant’Angelo (Pescara), (I).

- “HEP- Australia”- Alison Williams: Director of HEP - Guildford Lane Gallery,, Melbourne, (Aus).

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Solo Exposition 2014 IndeKast, Rotterdam 2012 “Interlude for a Selfportrait” – Wolfart project space –Rotterdam 2011 “Interlude for a Selfportrait” – Galeria Quarta Parede – Sao Paulo* Arte sin Limites Gallery, The Hague 2010 Kunst&Complex –Open studio, Rotterdam Galerie De Aanschouw - Rotterdam 2009 Kaus Australis – Open Studio, Rotterdam 2005 Artra, Milan, text Gabi Scardi, (I).* 2002 Artra, Milan 2001 Contemporary Art Center Spazio Umano, curator Enrico R. Comi, Milan 1999 Artra, Milan, Text Francesco Lucchini, (I).* Art Fair 2012 RAW – Galleria Skin- Brescia (I) 2013 Re: Rotterdam 2004 FLASH ART FAIR - Galleria Artra, Milan 2003 MIART – Galleria Artra, Milan Selected Biblioghaphy 2011 “Wilma Kun. All’ombra delle identità silenziose” Text : Antonello Tolve - Galeria Quarta Parede, Sao Paulo 2010 “Miocinesia nell’arte d’oggi” Text:Gillo Dorfles, Antonello Tolve – Salerno, (I) 2009 “Italian Restyle” – text: Barbara Fragogna, Martin Reiter,Gabriella Pelloni and Marco Mancassola.

- Arthouse Tacheles, Berlin, (G), ISBN 978-3-9813177-1-8

-“Don’t touch me” by Michele Bramante, Gallery En Plein Air ,Contemporary Art, Pinerolo,(I).

-Artkey Magazine by Carla Ferraris “Wilma kun e lo studio identitario dell’essere”, (I)

2008 Daily paper “Il Sole 24 Ore”- ArtEconomy24 – 1st of November, (I).

-Review of Art “Con-fine” n° 11 September – text by Carla Ferraris “The Research of the Identity”, (I).

-Internet Review- www.fratturascomposta.it 2007 Review of Architecture, Design, Culture, Arts “Casa International” n° 49 – 2007/03, P. 52-55, China.

2006 Text “ Donne fuori dal limite”, text by Rossella Moratto, Museum Malandra, Vespolate (NO),(I).

-Text “Il proprio luogo”,text by Angela Madesani, Matteo Galbiati, Lorella Giudici, Roberta Ridolfi, Mirtha Paula Mazzocchi, philosophic text: Eleonora Fiorani, Castello Borromeo, Corneliano Bertario (I).

2005 Review of art “Segno”n° 200 - January / February, (I).

-Claudia Barana “Il corpo come luogo della scoperta”- Magazine fashion, design, management “Activa”, n° 40 april/may, p. 3643. (I).

2004 Rocco Moliterni “You open that door is the art in one room” -Daily paper “the Press”,28th March, (I).

-Alessandra Poggianti “the Archives Young Artists - FLASH ART”, (I).

-Alessandra Poggianti “La fisicità moltiplicata di Wilma Kun”, Review of art “Titolo” n° 46 - 2004/2005 winter, p. 26-27, (I).

2003 Magazine “The newspaper of the contemporary art”, Relationship 2002-2003, n° 218 of February- (I).

-Magazine of art “Il Segno” – (I).

2002 Daily paper “La Pagina” N° 39 of the 25th september , Zurich – (CH).

-Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath “Junge

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Kunst im Kulturzentrum Alte Kaserne, Winterthur” Daily paper “Der Zürcher Zeitung”, Körpersprachen, N° 23 of 10th October , Zurich.

-Daily paper “Züritipp”, N° 39 , 27th september /3th October , Zurich –(CH).

-Mimmo di Marzio “A “Periscope” on the new promised of the art” Daily paper “Il Giornale”, (I)

-Martina Corgnati “Young people without frontiers. Here the artists today”- Daily paper “La Repubblica”, 6th October, (I).

2001 Magazine Avantgarde, N° 7/8 jul/Aug, (I).

2000 ”For art 14”, Casa degli Artisti, (I).

Conference 2011 Rair 3# - Talk artist – Rotterdam 2006 Academy of Brera “Identità come memoria”– Curator Tiziana Tacconi – Milan 2005- Academy of Brera “Autoritratti”– Curator Tiziana Tacconi – Milan

- “O Corpo e a Subjetividade” Faculty Senac – Sao Paulo 2002- Academy of Brera – Curator Tiziana Tacconi- Milan Site www.wilmakun.com www.saatchionline.com/wilmakun www.artists.de www.artslant.com www.rotterdamsekunstenaars.nl Collections Private collector – Mrs. And Mr. Marinoni – (I).

Private collector – Mr. G. Galante –(I).

Private collector – Mr.Rossi – (I). *Exhibition Catalogue or Brochure

Interview THE BODY AS A PLACE OF DISCOVERY

by Claudia Barana “Seeing ourselves from outside ourselves means thinking about who we really are. It means being a person, but also being a thousand persons”.

These words of Wilma Kun summarize her research. The desire to discover herself led this Brazilian artist to study her height, weight, facial features, bodily features and the changes she has gone through over the years.

How did your research begin?

“When I came to Italy, I realized that my art, in spite of my age, was old. I had to question everything. I spent the first two years studying.

Then the perception I had of myself became much stronger. So I thought of a cocoon: I wrapped an old plastic doll of mine in nylon thread and that is where my metamorphosis began”.

Emptied, without bones or muscles, the bodies multiplied and become the ground where the artists 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.

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Skin-bodies that demonstrate evolution and aging, that represent the limit, the diaphragm thatseparates us from others but at the same time allows us to communicate with them).

To adapt to Wilma Kun‘s artistic research, 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 Brazilian 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”.

What do you mean by ‘representation?

“I take the Greek idea of representation seen as an image, a kind of film that you hold up to your eyes to look at reality the image as a way of redeeming things having time from oblivion,” I redeem them from aging, from deterioration, mine and that of others, because I also take into consideration everything that surrounds me.

Wilma Kun’s work is an ongoing study and experiment on the body which becomes the means of communication par excellence, as expressed by her latest work ”Autoritratti” (Self-Portraits). A series of colour photo portraits of the people who contributed to her artistic development. Their faces are covered with a mask that is always the same, a cast of her own face, “the part that best represents me”. The setting is contemporary but the essential structural components of each of these images evoke a masterpiece from the history of Western art: Velasquez Holbein, El Greco, Raffaello, Reynold. Free references, captured only by the attentive eye. In this sense the artist recovers the past as a practice that she judges contemporary and which serves to rediscover art and compositional techniques that have become almost obsolete.

With these photographs the artist dialogues directly with those who have interacted with her on her life path, an artistic poetics. And with those who have contributed in moulding her current figure, men of the pastor her contemporaries: “I am the sum of many cultures”, claims the artist. In addition to the large photographs, small openable Plexiglas shrines are on display,” they contain the same photo but on a smaller scale, a mask and a private letter addressed to the person in the portrait. Open and ongoing dialogues that express a desire to keep the past. To better understand human beings as time passes.

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The artistic work that I have been developing for some years is focused on the concept of identity.

Wilma Kun