Since graduating from the University of Art and Design Linz, Clemens Wolf has been fascinated by decaying materials such as fences around waste sites, abandoned warehouses, and unfinished buildings. In his works, Wolf draws on his long-standing engagement with transient moments and presents a profound exploration of the interplay between surface, context, and material.

In his 'parachute paintings', he shifts his focus to the process of transformation, deeply infused with his personal history. As an avid skydiver, he transforms old, discarded parachutes into sensuous objects. After being dipped in epoxy resin, the parachutes are laid out in tondi, hung, erected as sculptures, or stretched over frames like paintings — with every fold carefully arranged and finally left to dry.

When viewing Clemens Wolf’s work, the significance of the boundary between painting, sculpture, and drawing becomes apparent. The surface of the works, with their powerful and vibrant color palette, reveals an almost organic world. While the artist understands the fabric’s folds as a stylized representation of decay and decomposition, the resin that fixes the folds lends the works a distinctive sheen and intensity, further accentuated by the delicate structure of the coiled parachute cords. The choice of such a light and airy object as the parachute evokes the fundamental concept of gravity.