<p> P R E S S R E L E A S E</p><p>Exhibition at the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung in Munich Ann Wolff PERSONA Sculptures and Drawings by the Internationally Renowned Artist Extension until 14 August 2015</p><p>Munich. Ann Wolff is one of the most important and exciting representatives of the European studio-glass movement. The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung now dedicates a solo exhibition to the artist entitled Ann Wolff PERSONA. It will provide a remarkable overview of her large-scale sculptures at the headquarters of the foundation in Munich, a former sculptor’s studio, until 14 August 2015. The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, known internationally in the area of contemporary glass, thus continues a new exhibition series MASTER | MEISTER, begun in 2013. It introduces outstanding artists who employ glass as a medium of artistic expression in their work.</p><p>Ann Wolff explains that the material glass is actually invisible. This offers artists the chance to create spaces to look into, spaces where something can emerge that actually doesn’t exist. Only the material glass has this characteristic and that is what fascinates the artist. Glass plays a central role for most of her large-scale sculptures but the artist Ann Wolff does not restrict herself to this medium. She also employs other materials such as bronze, concrete, stone, or aluminum. The recently completed, large aluminum sculpture Mold is thus a special highlight in the exhibition.</p><p>The thirty objects selected for the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung exhibition provide a comprehensive overview of the last ten years of Ann Wolff’s work. Supplementing the exhibition is a selection of her charcoal and pastel drawings. Common to all is the motif of the character mask, giving the exhibition its title Persona. The subject explores the philosophical and existential questions that have always interested the artist. They are the fundamental driving force for her work. In this creative process the rational conceptualization enters into a dialog with the physical experience during production. Viewers can intuit the process that has impelled Ann Wolff’s work all her life, letting them experience her sculptures very intensely.</p><p>Ann Wolff, born in Lübeck, Germany in 1937, studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm and then worked as a designer in Sweden. In the late</p><p>PRESSEKONTAKT: Ute Bauermeister 1 Koppelstätter Kommunikation GmbH Friedrichstr. 2, 76530 Baden-Baden,Tel: 07221/97372-15, Fax: 07221/97372-22 [email protected] 1970s, she started working as a freelance artist with her own studio. From 1993 to 1998, Ann Wolff was a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. Today she lives and works as a freelance artist in Sweden.</p><p>For her etched and engraved glass collages, Ann Wolff won the then newly introduced, and today very renowned, Coburg Glass Prize in 1977. Her numerous international awards include the Bayerischer Staatspreis (1988), the Jurors Award of the Toledo Museum of Art (2005), and the European Culture Prize (2011). Ann Wolff’s work is represented in many public collections and museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.</p><p>Munich, July 2015</p><p>A catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition.</p><p>Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek Ann Wolff PERSONA With contributions by Mark Gisbourne and Klaus Weschenfelder. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2014. 120 pages, 100 color illustrations. Hardcover. English and German. € 29.80 ISBN 978-3-89790-416-3</p><p>Information</p><p>Exhibition title: Ann Wolff PERSONA Opening: 16 October 2014 Duration of the exhibition: 17 October 2014 to 12 June 2015, extended until 14 August 2015 Opening hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10 am to 2 pm, Thursdays and Fridays 2 to 6 pm, closed on holidays.</p><p>Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Karl-Theodor-Straße 27 80803 Munich Tel. +49-(0)89-343856 [email protected] www.atstiftung.de</p><p>PRESSEKONTAKT: Ute Bauermeister 2 Koppelstätter Kommunikation GmbH Friedrichstr. 2, 76530 Baden-Baden,Tel: 07221/97372-15, Fax: 07221/97372-22 [email protected]</p>