RUTH WOLF-REHFELDTTYPEWRITINGS10-20.06.1981

GALERIE S:T PETRI
ARCHIVE OF EXPERIMENTAL AND
MARGINAL ART
BOX 1507
221 01 LUND 1
SWEDEN
TEL. (046) 14 78 00

Thinking, work, and life cannot be separated from one another, says RUTH WOLF-REHFELDT from the GDR and current exhibitor at Galerie S:t Petri in Lund. Life is a kind of thinking, subjective thinking, and being an artist is something that everyone is or could be. Artistic practice is, for oneself, to set up more or less aesthetically structured signs with a certain subjective meaning. But she does not agree with some artists who believe that life is the same as art. A certain way of thinking, a certain structuring of life, is necessary in order to create art.

Ideally, she would have preferred to limit her activities to being solely thoughts, something taking place within herself. But ideas cannot only accumulate in the mind; they must reach a form through which she can be confronted with them and orient herself later. It is not enough to passively feel, think, hear—some immediately tangible sign, trace, or form of the idea must be created.

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt has been active as an artist since the early 1960s. In the beginning she devoted herself primarily to painting, drawing, collage. But already in 1963 writing—in the form of various language materials, diaries, poetry, word series—became her main form of expression. Since 1972 her concrete or visual poetry has been expressed largely in typewritten texts/images. Most of these works are in a small format as her artistic activities have mostly taken place via Mail Art. That form—sending via the post office in East Berlin to communicate with various artists around the world—has suited her well.

At S:t Petri fragments of her artistic practice are shown—both individual works and works created together with other Mail Art artists.

Galerie S:t Petri regrets that Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and her husband Robert Rehfeldt, who both had been invited to come to Lund, were not allowed to attend the exhibition in person.

S:t Petri is open weekdays 15–20, Saturdays 13–17. The exhibition runs from 10–20 June 1981.

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