orffenbach ⋅ It was not expected. But it’s nice when the exhibition, which was actually scheduled for the 10th anniversary of Bernd Wolf’s death and was postponed due to the crown, has now become almost a birthday exhibition: next year, the wolf, born in Hofheim, it would have been 70 years old. About ten years after his last solo exhibition in the region, the time has come to remember Raimer Jochims’ student, who passed away in 2010. And the first groups of works created before his departure for Berlin, as can now be shown in the Offenbach Sight Gallery in the exhibition developed by the estate probably have not been exhibited for decades.
This is particularly true for the surprisingly concrete monotypes, but also for the equally rigorous and dancing fields of color of the “Shaped Canvases” of the 1980s or for the relatively small, almost iconic abstractions on thermal foils. And the concern for the figure and the erotic act, blindly danced on photographic paper with emulsion, is almost alone worth the visit. However, the center of the exhibition and the heart of Wolf’s mature work is the “unintended painting” that has dominated his work since the late 1990s. Color, nothing else, has been his pictorial theme ever since: the process for the image.
