Paper Cuts - Structures in Light

May 2nd - August 1st, 2026

 

​​​What has fascinated Jürgen Wolff from the very beginning is the accuracy of his

drawings, the precision of his paper cuts, but also a tendency that is absolutely

unusual in the field of art: to accompany and justify his own artistic work

mathematically and scientifically. In a brief description of his artistic intentions, he

explains: "In my artistic field research, I work with both constructive-analytical and

poetic means, paying attention to the interaction of density, rhythm and space,

encrypting and digging in between in order to discover this structure and make it

visible.”

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Jürgen Wolff's artistic work is closely linked to his professional career. He studied

engineering in the field of geodesy, the science of measuring and mapping the

earth's surface as well as determining the geometric shape of the earth, its

gravitational field and its orientation in space. And here it is striking: These terms,

strung together, can certainly form an imaginative space for flights of thought that go

beyond the art of mathematics and come close to the so-called "fine arts".

Nevertheless, in the terminology of the engineer, it is "artistic field research" that he

conducts as a graphic designer and draughtsman alongside his technically

orientated profession. But in the quote, he describes this work at the drawing table in

the same way an artist would: he explores the creative interactions of serial rhythms

and condensed spaces and is in search of structures that emerge from a constantly

newly developed broad range of forms.

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He achieves all this through delicate paper cut-outs. The intensity of the works is

further enhanced by light and shadow.

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Jürgen Wolff (born 1955) lives in Rödermark, near Frankfurt am Main / Germany, his

website: www.jfwolff.de