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29/3/2006

Andreas Hofer

Houser and Wirth London, London

Hauser and Wirth London is delighted to announce the long-awaited UK solo show of German artist Andreas Hofer.

Hofer always works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, and collage, and connects these as an installation in a single atmospheric unit. He continually surprises with new combinations of drawing, collage, painting, installation and sculpture. His unique aesthetic continuously experiments with different materials and techniques of applying paint, resulting in an effect that burns directly into the memory of the observer and operates in a way that is simultaneously crude and refined.

Hofer’s subject matter brings various, sometimes controversial, themes and sources together and creates connections filled with suspense. His work displays a continued fascination with the Germany of the 1930s; the decade that witnessed a transition from the Weimar Republic to National Socialism, from democracy to totalitarianism. Hofer refers to the works of artists who fell into oblivion after the fall of the Third Reich, bringing forgotten artists back into consciousness. The work also sets up a conflict with the visual language of fascism, examining its symbols for their subversive charismatic power and exposing their superficial appeal.

Currently in production, the work being created for This Island Earth includes a 36-foot painting flanked by tall sculptures, influenced by the artist’s interest in science fiction imagery. Hofer's work mingles good and evil, mixes fantasy and history, presenting provocative parallels. It is up to the observer to derive stories from the works - as well as to bear the tension created by them.

Opening:Thursday March 30, 6 - 8pm

Houser and Wirth London
196A Piccadilly - London
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm

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