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."

 

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. 

He achieves all this through delicate paper cut-outs. The intensity of the works is further enhanced by light and shadow.

 

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