The artistic work that I have been developing for several years is based on the idea of identity.
In order to focus better this concept, I have ideally subdivided it in three areas of research.
First of all, I concentrated on the elements which form the idea of personal identity.
There are plenty of aspects that I have been considering since I started, such as:
- the sexsual identity and its connections
- the capacity of perception of ourselves and the reconstruction of identity's idea.
- the racial and cultural identity
- the physical changes, in the long run, which modify the perception of ourselves
- the memory as reconstruction of ourselves. In relation to this I have made use of some photos of my family to create material's dolls which represent them.
At this point I started to work at the second area of research, that is ,the use of masks and material's dolls.
The mask is used as element of representation of a symbolic identity. He who wears the mask, assumes an other identity and on the contrary the mask takes possession of of the identity of the person who wears it.
The idea of identity at this level is connected with the representation of the subject and it isn't connected any more with one's own indivivduality.
The last one area of research is connected with the influence of some aspects of contemporary culture, such as: the social contaminations, the influence of media on social behaviours, the changes in the capacity to recognize ourselves or to belong to social models.
About technical issues, first of all, I have to say that all my works start from the realization of a tracing of my body.
This tracing is periodically realized, just to record the changes of my body , in the long run.
Most of my works are realized with a rubber which is poured inside the tracing. In this way I obtain a skin which reproduces the image of myself.
Usually these rubber's bodies are sewn each other or on the material's dolls that I create. As you can see in the previous images.
I don't use only installations but also other ways. I have realized some works using the photograpy and I have just ended my first video.
However I always use my image in all my works, indipendently by the techniques..
ARTISTIC CURRICULUM
2001- Diploma of Painting - Fine Arts Academy Brera, Milan, Italy
1989- Bachelor Degree of Visual art, specialization in Sculpture - Faculty of Art Saint Marcellina, Saint Paul, Brazil,
Residence
2009 - Residence in Kunst & Complex - Rotterdam (from November to April)
2009 - Residence in Kaus Australis- Rotterdam (from January to April)
News
-23 May at 7 p.m. Collective show -"Don't Touch me": reflection on perception of incommunicability in our time. En Plein Air Arte Contemporanea. Stradale Baudenasca n.118 - Pinerolo (To) - Italy.
Opening -3 April till 25 April Open studio in Stichting Kaus Australis in Rotterdam
by appointment
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
HEP 2009 Australia - Human Emotions Project in Guildford Lane Gallery - Melbourne(Australia)
2008
"Summer Kisses" curators Maurizio Coccia e Enzo De Leonibus, Palazzo Lucarini (Trevi) and Museo Laboratorio Ex Manufattura Tabacchi (Città Sant'Angelo), Italy
2007
"Godart 2007" Museum Laboratorio Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Città Sant'Angelo (Pescara), Italy.
"Plastica d'artista" curator Matteo Galbiati and Maria Rosa Pividori, San Vito al Tagiamento, Italy.*
"Plastica d'artista" curator Matteo Galbiati and Maria Rosa Pividori, Pordenone, Italy.*
2006
"Migra-Azione" curator Maria Rosa Pividori and Pino Diecidue, Palazzo Broletto, Novara, Italy.*
" Donne fuori dal limite" curator Maria Rosa Pividori, Museum Malandra, Vespolate (NO), Italy.*
"Il proprio Luogo" curator Maria Rosa Pividori, Castello Boromeo, Truccazzano, Italy.*
"Godart 2006", Museum Laboratorio Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Città Sant'Angelo (Pescara), Italy.
"Parachute - Pink" curator Manuela Gandini, Artandy Gallery, Milan, Italy.
2005
" Il Corpo, l'Abito, la Mente" curator Maria Campitelli - Trieste, Italy.*
"Kamikaze", Artra Gallery, Genoa, Italy.
"Godart 2005", Museum Laboratorio Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Città Sant'Angelo (Pescara), Italy,
2004
"Project Maionese- 7° edition", "Il Corpo Solitario. Ovvero la necessità dell'autorappresentazione", curator George Bonomi - Gallery En Plein Air ,Contemporary Art, Pinerolo (TO), Italy.*
2003
"House Warming Show", curator Dubravka Vidovic and Francesca Bertolotti, Milan, Italy.
"Filigrane", curator George Bonomi, Museum of the ceramics M. Trucco, Albisola Marina, Italy.*
2002
"Periscopio 2002", curator Francesco Tedeschi , Angela Madesani and Paolo Campiglio, Milan, Italy.*
"Ausstellungsreihe junger Kunstlerinnen aus Italien", "Oktober 2001/Juni 2003"; in the Kulturzentrum Alte Kaserne, Winterthur - ZH.*
"Extra Bienal", curator Sandra Bighetti and Isabela Prata, Saint Paul-Brazil.
1998
"Soggetto in Ombra", curator L. Fabro; Casa degli Artisti, Milan, Italy.*
"Salon 1", Museum of the Permanent, Milan, Italy.*
Solo Exposition
2005 - Artra, Milan, text Gabi Scardi, Italy.*
2002 - Artra, Milan ,Italy.
2001 - Contemporary Art Center Spazio Umano, curator Enrico R. Comi, Milan, Italy.
1999 - Artra, Milan, Text Francesco Lucchini, Italy.*
Selected Biblioghaphy
2008
-Daily paper "Il Sole 24 Ore"- ArtEconomy24 - 1st of November, Italy.
-Review of Art "Con-fine" n° 11 September - text by Carla Ferraris "The Research of the Identity", Italy.
-Internet Review- www.fratturascomposta.it
2007
-Review of Architecture, Design, Culture, Arts "Casa International" n° 49 - 2007/03, P. 52-55 China.
2006
-Text " Donne fuori dal limite", text by Rossella Moratto, Museum Malandra, Vespolate (NO),Italy.
-Text "Il proprio luogo",text by Angela Madesani, Matteo Galbiati, Lorella Giudici, Roberta Ridolfi, Mirtha Paula Mazzocchi, philosophic text: Eleonora Fiorani, Castello Borromeo, Corneliano Bertario (MI),Italy.
2005
-Review of art "Segno"n° 200 - January /February, Italy.
-Claudia Barana "Il corpo come luogo della scoperta"- Magazine fashion,design, management "Activa", n° 40 april/may, p. 36-43. Italy.
2004
-Rocco Moliterni "You open that door is the art in one room" -Daily paper "the Press",28th March, City Turin
-Alessandra Poggianti "the Archives Young Artists - FLASH ART" - Milan.
-Alessandra Poggianti "La fisicità moltiplicata di Wilma Kun", Review of art "Titolo" n° 46 - 2004/2005 winter, p. 26-27.
2003
-Magazine "the newspaper of the contemporary art", Relationship 2002-2003, n° 218 of February.
-Magazine of art "Il Segno".
2002
-Daily paper "La Pagina" N° 39 of the 25th september , Zurich.
-Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath "Junge Kunst im Kulturzentrum Alte Kaserne, Winterthur" Daily paper "Der Zürcher Zeitung", Körpersprachen, N° 23 of 10th October , Zurich.
-Daily paper "Züritipp", N° 39 , 27th september /3th October , Zurich.
-Mimmo di Marzio "A "Periscope" on the new promised of the art" Daily paper "Il Giornale", Milan.
-Martina Corgnati "Young people without frontiers. Here the artists today"- Daily paper "La Repubblica", 6th October, Milan.
2001
-Magazine Avantgarde, N° 7/8 july/August, Milan, Italy.
2000
-"For art 14", Casa degli Artisti , Milan, Italy.
Art Fair
FLASH ART FAIR 2004
MIART 2003 from Gallery ARTRA
Conference
2006- Accademia di Brera "Identità come memoria"- Curator Tiziana Taconi - Milan
2005- Accademia di Brera "Autoritratti"- Curator Tiziana Taconi - Milan
- "O Corpo e a Subjetividade" Faculty Senac - Sain Paul - Brazil
2002- Accademia di Brera - Curator Tiziana Taconi- Milan
Site
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery
www.wooloo.org/wilmakun
www.artreview.com
www.afonline.artistsspace.org
www.artists.de
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