Western Philosophies
Galerie Droste•Feb 03, 2023 — Mar 11, 2023
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Exerpt from Saša Bogojev: Bogus cyber (de)mise-en-scènes
To portray reality via only its polished surface and not its crumbling core can't be the best way to approach representational painting. Not, at least, in the 21st century, when we are keenly aware of the shipwreck that humanity has been steadily navigating toward. When depicting contemporary life, it would only be accurate to include its grotesque, permeating defects. And this is precisely the idea behind Julius Hofmann’s glitchy, jittering scenes of an absurd, digitalized existence verging on post-apocalypse.
Hofmann anchors this idea in simple, often garish, symbols of present-day experience, channeled through a visually pleasing amalgam of traditional western classical painting and 90s computer graphics aesthetics. Take high-end fashion brands or the electric scooter craze. In Prada Milano (2022), modish figures dressed in purple and yellow stroll and scooter through the austere urban environment,...More
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Western Philosophies
Galerie Droste•Feb 03, 2023 — Mar 11, 2023
Press release
Exerpt from Saša Bogojev: Bogus cyber (de)mise-en-scènes
To portray reality via only its polished surface and not its crumbling core can't be the best way to approach representational painting. Not, at least, in the 21st century, when we are keenly aware of the shipwreck that humanity has been steadily navigating toward. When depicting contemporary life, it would only be accurate to include its grotesque, permeating defects. And this is precisely the idea behind Julius Hofmann’s glitchy, jittering scenes of an absurd, digitalized existence verging on post-apocalypse.
Hofmann anchors this idea in simple, often garish, symbols of present-day experience, channeled through a visually pleasing amalgam of traditional western classical painting and 90s computer graphics aesthetics. Take high-end fashion brands or the electric scooter craze. In Prada Milano (2022), modish figures dressed in purple and yellow stroll and scooter through the austere urban environment,...More
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