MuseoMag: MuseoMag 2017_04

MuseoMag 2017_04

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Title:: Hans Hofmann, a painter "rescued by America": In the context of the exhibition "Creation in form and color. Hans Hofmann", the MNHA organizes a cycle of three lectures

7 04 ‘ 2017 museomag temporary exhibition influential artistic practice, from the early 1930s through the end of his life in 1966. In his early work, Hofmann painted figure studies, spatially complex studio still lifes, and in particular, landscapes. drips, splatters and splashes The landscapes, often inspired by sites near his Provincetown school and studio along the Atlantic coast, were his most experimental and daring works. Early landscapes were executed in an energetic range of stylistic variations – Fauve, Cubist, Expressionist. Gradually Hofmann adopted the spontaneous and calligraphic methods of Surrealist automatism – drips, splatters and splashes of paint employed with the aim of freeing color and form. By the late 1940s Hofmann’s compositions leave behind representational references, his abstract forms serving concepts of balance, harmony, contrast, force, light, color and plane. In the late 1950s, Hofmann closed his famous schools in New York and Provincetown and turned to painting full time for the first time in over forty years. Over the next eight years, Hofmann produced an astounding body of energetic, masterful paintings. All painterly gesture and action, the pictorial surface no longer referred to the external world but was transformed into an expressive, independent reality of its own, a continuous dimensional present of shimmering, vibrant colors and forms. Overall, Hofmann aspired to create pictorial life, reflecting forces and counterforces ever- present in nature, his enduring source of inspiration. Lucinda Barnes* *The author serves as Curator Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she has curated and co-curated over forty exhibitions covering a broad range of historical periods, cultural topics, and artistic media. KonferenzzyKlus über Hans Hofmann • Samstag 7. Oktober 2017 um 10.30 Uhr (EN): Lucinda Barnes, curator of the exhibition: Nature into Abstraction: Hans Hofmann • Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2017 um 18.30 Uhr (DE): Dr. Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen, stellv. Direktorin der Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Inspirationen. Paul Cézanne, Hans Hofmann und das neue Bild der Natur • Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2018 um 18.30 Uhr (DE): Dr. Friedrich Meschede, Direktor der Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Aneignung der Moderne: Hans Hofmann – Michel Majerus Creation in Form and Color: Hans Hofmann is organized by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and the National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg. Opening of the exhibition 5th October 2017, at 6.30 p.m. On display from 6th October 2017 until 14th January 2018. © sara sackner © veit metter © veit mette

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