Artist
Edgar Hofschen
Artist
Part of events on ArtRabbit in: Berlin
"Color", "space", "structure", "material", are the terms around which Edgar Hofschen's painting moves. Color - Hofschen prefers differentiated shades of gray-green and brown - has a tense effect in the area between limiting lines and broad edges. It finds the possibility to unfold its own life in this zone with all its intensity, not only on, but in interaction with the underlying picture supports, i.e. paper of different quality and canvas. These materials play a decisive role in the final result. The pictures always speak of balance and tranquility, they weigh in themselves; at the same time Hofschen succeeds in leaving the material its own expression. Although he puts them together and separates them in a well-considered way, none of his gestures seems merely planned, thought out. His feeling for the materiality of the source material, its specific characteristics, always finds expression. The fabrics determine the pictorial events; it is as if Hofschen merely strengthened them in their expressiveness through arrangement and partial intervention. The used olive green tent tarpaulins are tattered, patched, washed out, crumpled, rough, brittle and repellent. They are sewn together, collaged, glued, with the white wood glue also added as color. In the irregular pictorial space of his early paintings, Hofschen placed sparse signs that stand out radiant white from the rough background. Then, between 1973 and 1976, he layered colors on top of each other so that the painted fields seem to vibrate. (Text: Jürgen Schilling, 1982)
Exhibitions and Events
2022