A vida o muerto: Wolf Hamm
Wolf Hamm (Bremen, 1974) has developed his career within the German and Finish academic circuits. Advanced apprentice and experimenter of long-standing techniques like the skecth of the xylopraph.
This artists identifies himself as follower of Durero and the engravers Schongauer and Balgung Grien and falls in love with the gloomiest facet os xylography, which trapped as well the Mexican engravers Posada, Manilla among others.
Hamm explores the interior landscape: believes, faith, the human condition indeed. In order to do so he focusess on religious and transcendental subject-matters, especially Biblical passages. Yet, he does not approach them literally, by reproducing its iconography, but reinterpreting them in contemporary fashion, subtly alluding back to the original passage in a semi-abstract style. His entanglements provoke on us certain questions, a sort of meditative state, a trance where the fight of dichotomies manifests: evil against goodness, darkness against clarity.