Tasha Wolff

Biography

I was born in the USSR.This fact was probably determinating in my artist formation.I was suffocated by the soviet realism ,moral and political line.As I suffered from the banality,boaring quotidianity and permanent regulation of human being,I fell in some kind of excessiveness.I wanted to catch up the time and live several lifes in a very intensive way.It induce me to create my concept "7 zip time"resulting in simultaneous perfomance melting multitude of experiences coming from differents and incompatibles times.Times and periods get mixed up,layers of feelings,memories,sensations are interposed,somes fade away,somes of them surface like in a palimpsest.I try to captivate this caotic forms, to rescue them from abymalle depths and reconstruct them in their new presentation.The time appears like a human construction,labyrithe, in which footpaths man get easily lost.The technics I use  reflect the same problematic:it's essentially paper mache modelling and calcination.Using paper mache is rebilding entities from the layers of wood, papers,thoughts,sentences.Calcination constitutes return to the roots ,to the stars dust.It reflets the permanent change of matter ,it's dilatation,contraction and final transformation.The material is fusing ,flowing and getting fixed.The most important memories get detained.Like a star explosion it fixes molecules and gives them a new existance randomly.The chance appears like a main vector in the staging and composition of my work fixed on human peregrination through the centuries and dimensions.The unpredictable nature of this new advent helps to explain the difficulty to define the category of my creations.It's mostly about the compositions in volume melting styles and technics.

What's your background?

I was born in the USSR. This fact was probably determinating in my artist formation.I was suffocated by the soviet realism,moral and political line.As I suffered from the banality,boaring quotidianity,luck of creativity,permanent regulation of human being,I fell in some kind of excessiveness.I wanted to catch up the lost time and live several lifes.That induce me to create my concept "7 zip times" consisting in simultaneous performance of mellting a multitude of experiences from differents and incompatibles times.I'm also searching for intensity  and depth in my creations  .Despite my rejection of oficial art  I was quite inspired by the soviet sculpture during my studies in Belarusian Stae Academy of art (section Monumental art and decorative painting).Especially by the huge force and energy coming from some of monumental soviet works .That influence is stil present in my artistic search.

What does it mean to you to win the Collectors Art Prize?

First at all it's a greate honor.Of corse when I'm working I'm only following my instincts and desires .But if it can touch and please the collectors it can only be motivating.

What do you think is the role of art in the world today?

For me art helps to  open new horizons,new feelings  and loopholes.It can also to induce to the reflections and develop the curiosity of a spirit.

What woud it be if you coud change one thing about the art world?

Without any doubt speculation, fancy thing .

What are your most significant professional achievements?

To create some special and unique expression.My obsession has always been to evoid the already seen and done. My style is my best achievement.

What do you wish to tell viewers about your work that might not come out explicitly? What do you hope to inspire with your artwork?

It's about the role of chance .The random appears like a main vector in the staging and composition of my work.I think what can be quite inspiring is the liberty and detachment of influences and jugements, the search to find your own way of expression.

Country France

Website https://www.art-brutoff.fr