About the Artist
Andrea C. Hoffer has been living and working between Tobago and Germany since 1998. German born Hoffer studied Art at the Academy of Art Dusseldorf as a student of A.R Penck and graduated with her masters in painting. Andrea C. Hoffer is represented by Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie. and has exhibited extensively in Germany and Europe participating in both solo and group exhibitions since 1994. This is Hoffer’s second solo exhibition in Trinidad, her first in 1998 at Gallery1.2.3.4. and joint exhibition with Luise Kimme “onextwo” in 2007 at the Trinidad and Tobago National Museum. Hoffer’s paintings are in several private and public collections in Europe.
On the work of Andrea C. Hoffer
” Artist and viewer enter into a mutual dialogue exceeding the boundaries of space, in an eternal loop comprising the finiteness but also the infiniteness of existence”.
The mostly rather muted colouring of Andrea Hoffer’s tempera paintings – the twilight between light and dark – endows them with an eerie, dreamlike effect, which the absence of human protagonists enhances.
Andrea Hoffer’s pictures acquire their dramatic intensity from both areas of calm and movement, which auratically charge the still life motifs, which have been inserted, and transcend their physical present in order to evoke moments of contemplation and introspection.
Interior, Exterior. Exterior, Interior.
In the use of interior and still life motifs, the artist allows the viewer an insight into her private living space, her innermost self. Landscape is experienced as infinite and the romantic feeling of the sublime intrude into the calm of the interior, questioning its seclusion and security. Landscape, interior and still life are interwoven in a film set, created for a plot consisting of natural and atmospheric phenomena.
Christoph Kivelitz, 2009
DATES
JUNE 12- JULY 11 2015
Opening reception on June 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Soft Box Studios and Art Gallery
9 Alcazar Street, St. Clair / 622-8610/ 740-7109 / softboxgallery@gmail.com
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