Marie Wolf
Random waste
In this collection Marie Wolf recycles resin waste that she accumulates during the production process. Whenever she works with resin, she scrapes off the splatters, drops, droplets from mixing cups and silicon mats post-production. Creating her “waste” pieces, she randomly places the resin leftovers in molds. The end result is never predictable. The only element that the artist controls is color. The design is random.Hence the title of her collection – “random waste”.
Marie often relies on an element of randomness in the design of her work. Random design is unpredictable by definition, a certain understanding of randomness is necessary to distinguish between unrecognized regularities in the production and those that are truly random coincidences. The droplets’ shape, size and weight sometimes determine their eventual location within the mold. Heavier pieces tend to stay in the bottom part of the mold depending on whether they are grouped with other pieces and thin slivers of resin tend to float on top.
This series focuses again on recycling resin waste accumulated during the production process. After working with resin, the artist scrapes off the splatters, drops, droplets from mixing cups and silicon mats. Creating her “waste” pieces, she randomly places the resin leftovers in molds. The end result is never predictable. The only element that the artist controls is color. The design is random.
Hence the title of her collection – “random waste”.
Her most recent “random attracts random” series, is part of her “random waste” collection. It features brooches, which can be pinned to arm rings. All the components contain magnets.
Her brooches can also be used as body or mural brooches – on jackets as well as on walls or canvases to adorn the home.
She applies the principle of randomness to the design of the brooches as well. On top of her own waste, she uses household waste such as remnants of capsules and packaging. Neodymium or ceramic magnets in the arm rings “attract” a brooch. The brooch therefore has a double purpose: as a brooch or as an add-on element to the arm ring.
The artist is looking to romantic chaos of the mid-century abstract expressionists whose intentions for their finished work was left open. Marie appreciates the same sort of randomness when she embarks on her production journey. She sees harmony and equilibrium in the randomness of her work.
Marie Wolf was born and raised in Vienna, Austria, and attended universities in Vienna and Tokyo, graduating with an MA in Interactive Design in London before pursuing a career in the technology industry. After several years in Internet, media and telecommunications companies, she continued her education in art and design at NABA, Nuova Academia di Belle arte in Milan (with jewelry designer Barbara Uderzo and Italian artist Attilio Tono) and at Central St. Martins in London.
After working a couple of decades in different countries on several continents, she moved to Italy. She currently commutes between Milan, Vienna and Barcelona.
She exhibited at the Munich Jewelry Week 2021 with "moonscapes" and 2022 with "random waste". Her work was featured twice in the contemporary jewelry magazine Current Obsession and presented in the online gallery "A room with a view" in spring 2021. Her series "light, light shows" was featured at New York Jewellery Week 2021. She exhibited at Brussels Jewellery Week in April/May 2022 with her collection "gems".
Her interactive brooch "who wins" has been on display at Arte y Joya in August 2022/23.
In October 2022, one of her pieces, "mountainscape", was part of a group exhibition in Rome during Rome Jewelry Week. She also participated in Milan Jewelry Week 2022 with "transparent gems" and " light shows".
She held a solo show at The Simones in Berlin in December 2022.
She is part of the international network Klimt02.net.
Her work is influenced by interests ranging from science and technology to art, music and design. During her creative process, she applies techniques similar to those she learned in her earlier career in technology, such as e.g. rapid innovation loops.
Marie experiments with all types of materials. In her work she aims to re-use waste as much as possible: household and industrial waste such as packaging, electrical wire, metal pipes and tubes, plexiglass and glass. She often also uses leftovers of her own production process. Her other go-to materials are resin, sand, cement, glass, precious clays and clays, and any type of plastic.
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After working a couple of decades in different countries on several continents, she moved to Italy. She currently commutes between Milan, Vienna and Barcelona.
She exhibited at the Munich Jewelry Week 2021 with "moonscapes" and 2022 with "random waste". Her work was featured twice in the contemporary jewelry magazine Current Obsession and presented in the online gallery "A room with a view" in spring 2021. Her series "light, light shows" was featured at New York Jewellery Week 2021. She exhibited at Brussels Jewellery Week in April/May 2022 with her collection "gems".
Her interactive brooch "who wins" has been on display at Arte y Joya in August 2022/23.
In October 2022, one of her pieces, "mountainscape", was part of a group exhibition in Rome during Rome Jewelry Week. She also participated in Milan Jewelry Week 2022 with "transparent gems" and " light shows".
She held a solo show at The Simones in Berlin in December 2022.
She is part of the international network Klimt02.net.
Her work is influenced by interests ranging from science and technology to art, music and design. During her creative process, she applies techniques similar to those she learned in her earlier career in technology, such as e.g. rapid innovation loops.
Marie experiments with all types of materials. In her work she aims to re-use waste as much as possible: household and industrial waste such as packaging, electrical wire, metal pipes and tubes, plexiglass and glass. She often also uses leftovers of her own production process. Her other go-to materials are resin, sand, cement, glass, precious clays and clays, and any type of plastic.
www.marietheresewolf.com
www.instagram.com/mariewolf_jewels
www.facebook.com/mariewolfjewels