Edgar Hofschen
Biography
1965-71 studied art history and philosophy in Cologne
1972-75 Studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy
1975 First solo exhibition at Galerie Georg Nothelfer
1977 Participation in the documenta, Kassel
Died 2016 in Hückeswagen
"Color", "space", "structure", "material", are the terms around which Edgar Hofschen's painting moves. Color - Hofschen prefers differentiated shades of gray-green and brown - has a tense effect in the area between limiting lines and broad edges. It finds the possibility to unfold its own life in this zone with all its intensity, not only on, but in interaction with the underlying picture supports, i.e. paper of different quality and canvas. These materials play a decisive role in the final result. The pictures always speak of balance and tranquility, they weigh in themselves; at the same time Hofschen succeeds in leaving the material its own expression. Although he puts them together and separates them in a well-considered way, none of his gestures seems merely planned, thought out. His feeling for the materiality of the source material, its specific characteristics, always finds expression. The fabrics determine the pictorial events; it is as if Hofschen merely strengthened them in their expressiveness through arrangement and partial intervention. The used olive green tent tarpaulins are tattered, patched, washed out, crumpled, rough, brittle and repellent. They are sewn together, collaged, glued, with the white wood glue also added as color. In the irregular pictorial space of his early paintings, Hofschen placed sparse signs that stand out radiant white from the rough background. Then, between 1973 and 1976, he layered colors on top of each other so that the painted fields seem to vibrate. (Text: Jürgen Schilling, 1982)
Exhibitions
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More than 24 #2. Groupshow
10 November 2023 to 1 January 2024
Showroom
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More than 24
2 December 2022 to 28 January 2023
Showroom
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MÉLANGE DE 16
21 July to 3 September 2022
Showroom
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Edgar Hofschen. Ordnungen
23 January to 3 April 2021
Galerie
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Accrochage
18 December 2020 to 20 March 2021
Showroom
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Accrochage
7 November 2020 to 9 January 2021
Galerie
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Gruppenausstellung/Group Show
29 June to 30 August 2019
Corneliusstraße
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Edgar Hofschen & Wolfgang Troschke. Ein Dialog
28 January to 18 March 2017
Corneliusstraße
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Edgar Hofschen Modifikationen
17 September to 21 October 2011
Corneliusstrasse
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Edgar Hofschen - Von Alpha bis Omega
11 May to end of June 2007
Corneliusstrasse
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Edgar Hofschen „Buchobjekte“
11 April to 21 May 2005
Uhlandstrasse
Publications
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Ausstellungskatalog Papierarbeiten/Exhibition Catalogue Paperworks, 2000, Edited by Galerie Hartl, on the occasion of the exhibition at Galerie Hartl and Galerie Ute Mronz, text by Johannes Meinhardt, 64 pages, numerous illustrations., EUR 13
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Kunst-Zeitung, Nr. 7, 1989, Edited by Kunst-Zeitung, Texts by Manfred de la Motte and others, 10 pages, 21 ill, 7 colour ill., ISBN 3-87329-909-7, EUR 3
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Ausstellungskatalog/Exhibition Catalogue, 1984, Edited by Galerie Georg Nothelfer Berlin. Texts by Manfred de la Motte and Heinrich Hahne, 40 pages, 29 ill, 15 colour ill. Edition Galerie Georg Nothelfer, ISBN 3-87329-915-1, EUR 10
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