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Godwin Hoffmann , german born artist, works with very strict rules of composition. This harshness doesn’t exclude brush traces and paint leakage: the evidences of the pictural gesture. His rigorous approach of art, plays with “forms” on paper or canvas. The support itself becomes an important part of the artwork. His work, especially the one […]
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Godwin Hoffmann , german born artist, works with very strict rules of composition.
This harshness doesn’t exclude brush traces and paint leakage: the evidences of the pictural gesture.
His rigorous approach of art, plays with “forms” on paper or canvas. The support itself becomes an important part of the artwork.
His work, especially the one done with drawing charcoal, has been compared to the preparatory sketches of a sculptor.
” My artistic evolution has been determined by distance and abstraction.
On one side my quest for knowledge and truth inherited from my education, on the other side I look for the elementary, the origin, sensuality and the touch.
Obtaining a thick black that seems to absorb all light, pretending to the absolute.
This kind of work is very demanding”
Godwin Hoffmann
About the artist
From an early age, Hoffmann admired the Dutch Masters of the 19th century, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque and many more who inspired his consequent disciplined and rigorous approach to form. Hoffman began his painting career by extensively exploring the figurative expression of a brushstroke. He quickly found his way to non-figurative painting heavily influenced by constructivism. Hoffmann’s painted work contains large chromatic stripes, sometimes coloured and often vertical, all relying on the impact of colour to help translate their volume within an open environment. His conceptual design and minimalist attitude offer a clean and crisp post-modern take on well-composed abstract art.