Born in Munich, Germany, Tania Welz has lived and worked in Rome for over 25 years. She started her career as a TV Producer for VIVA TV in Germany and then became a Production Producer for the Italian offices of Orbit Communications Network, Sky, Universal and National Geographic Channel. In parallel she pursued her artistic research, experimenting with a multitude of diverse materials, techniques, and textiles. In 2013 she decided to dedicate her time entirely to her artistic career.
Tania Welz has exhibited internationally, including shows in China, Poland, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Serbia, Slovakia, Greece, the UK and the United States. Her work has received honours such as the 4th International Emerging Artist Award in Dubai in 2016.
Chrysopoeia Study No. 2 is one of the first works that emerged from an intensive exploration of techniques for transmuting fabric into copper. The name Chrysopoeia, was borrowed from a term of alchemy which means transmutation into gold or the completion of the great work (Magnus Opus), symbolically indicating the successful transformation of all impurities into gold. Each piece in the ‘Chrysopoeia’ series commences its life as a piece of fabric — humble, pliable, and undeniably ordinary.
The fabric is molded and manipulated, combining artistry and chemistry in a process reminiscent of alchemical practices. The moulding blank is subsequently submerged in a copper sulphate solution and exposed to a slow process of mineralization, during which the fabric absorbs the copper, gradually morphing into a unique piece of metallic art.
30 x 30 x 5 cm
Born in Munich, Germany, Tania Welz has lived and worked in Rome for over 25 years. She started her career as a TV Producer for VIVA TV in Germany and then became a Production Producer for the Italian offices of Orbit Communications Network, Sky, Universal and National Geographic Channel. In parallel she pursued her artistic research, experimenting with a multitude of diverse materials, techniques, and textiles. In 2013 she decided to dedicate her time entirely to her artistic career.
Tania Welz has exhibited internationally, including shows in China, Poland, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Serbia, Slovakia, Greece, the UK and the United States. Her work has received honours such as the 4th International Emerging Artist Award in Dubai in 2016.
Chrysopoeia Study No. 2 is one of the first works that emerged from an intensive exploration of techniques for transmuting fabric into copper. The name Chrysopoeia, was borrowed from a term of alchemy which means transmutation into gold or the completion of the great work (Magnus Opus), symbolically indicating the successful transformation of all impurities into gold. Each piece in the ‘Chrysopoeia’ series commences its life as a piece of fabric — humble, pliable, and undeniably ordinary.
The fabric is molded and manipulated, combining artistry and chemistry in a process reminiscent of alchemical practices. The moulding blank is subsequently submerged in a copper sulphate solution and exposed to a slow process of mineralization, during which the fabric absorbs the copper, gradually morphing into a unique piece of metallic art.
