These were started in 2009 after a period of about four years of not painting with acrylics or oils etc. Certainly not on such a scale. I see them as exercise and meditation and I started in 2009 by deciding I would confront depression by painting every negative feeling I could very large, physical related to abstract expressionism and Carolee’s extensions of it off the canvas.
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The drips are important and the markmaking which I always felt was substandard but I had to do it anyway. They relate a bit to Tracey Emin and her exorcism of the last painting she ever made. There is an accompanying video on Vimeo called ‘Demystifying Painting’ from 2010. I started painting after having the show in Munich at Lothringer 13 Halle where I filled the whole space with everything I had ever made, to get an overview, and then dumping everything else in the center of the floor in the space (everything that would not fit on the walls). Elke Krystufek saw this show, it was curated by her best friend Uli Aigner, and she (Elke) said she couldn’t sleep because of it. She cut contact with me shortly after that. – SMW.
Listings connecting to the sub typology “Rolled painting” (26)
00011-2015…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2015
Image of Studio object
Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “Cold cases – they are closed. They never found a killer. They never found the archive.” –SMW, MH, RR, IA.
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00010-c201…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Tracey Emin
c. 2011
Image of Studio object
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00009-c201…
Thought works
Rolled painting
c. 2011
Image of Studio object
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00008-2011…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2011
Image of Studio object
In response to the Linda Nochlin 1971 essay ‘Why are there no great women artists’.
Email exchange – 22.09.20. “I am in such an art world bubble sometimes, even feminist art world bubble, that it is still fairly new and challenging to answer questions about my positioning in the general society at large in a materialist feminist sense.” – SMW.
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00007-c200…
Thought works
Rolled painting
c. 2009
Image of Studio object
Early rolled paintings always text with a frame/edge.
Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Our archiving is sharing, it’s like opening up a heart.” – SMW.
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00006-2016…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2016
Image of Studio object
SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “Staring at the wall is work.” – SMW. “Thinking is artistic labour.” – AC.
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00005-2009…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Agnes Denes, Angela…
2009
Image of Studio object
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00004-2009…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Erykah Badu
2009
Image of Studio object
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00003-2009…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2009
Image of Studio object
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00002-2009…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Isolde Wrawrin, Karen…
2009
Image of Studio object
Returned gift from Tracey Emin. First painting made after many years.
“I can’t pronounce ‘femininity’ with a straight face. Woman made for woman? the wonder to the man, the rib to the cage, the noxious to the vindicate. Pray to the goddess.” – AC.
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00001-2014…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Carolee Schneemann
2014
Image of Studio object
Performative actions to exorcise negative thoughts.
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