MARKUS HOFER
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About: MARKUS HOFER (Born 1977 in Haslach, Austria. Currently living and working in Vienna)
1997-1998 University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz with Prof. Erwin Reiter.
2002-2003 Berlin-Weissensee Art Academy with Prof. Bernd Wilde.
1999-2003 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Prof. Bruno Gironcoli Location-based interventions and the interweaving of analogies of form and meaning play a major role in Markus Hofer’s artwork.
He examines the individual characteristics of the exhibition space carefully, no matter if it is public or private, and extracts his shapes from the realities of the site. He orients himself upon barely noticed objects and the functional inventory of daily life, such as heating pipes, electrical sockets, power cables, and the architecture of the room. Carefully situated upon the crossroads of art and everyday life, his sculptures compel the viewer to pause for a brief moment of contemplation. The installation with suspended drops of paint, for example, feels like a paused moment between a before and after, the frozen moment in which the incident occurred.
Photographer: Markus Hofer
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source: baeckerstrasse4at
geboren 1977 in Haslach, Oberösterreich
1997- 1998 Studium an der Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung in Linz bei Prof. Erwin Reiter
2002- 2003 Studium an der Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee bei Prof. Bernd Wilde
1999-2003 Studium an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien bei Prof. Bruno Gironcoli, (Diplom), Artist in Residence Rom und Bologna, Italien, T-Mobile, Wien
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source: deniz-berdanblogspot
Avusturya doğumlu Markus Hofer likidlerle sağladığı illüzyonla dokunmadan, kendi gözlerinizle görmeden, yer çekimini hiçe sayarak inanılması zor heykeller sunuyor.
Austrian artist Markus Hofer makes amazing illusions without giving a crap about gravity. He makes it really hard to make the viewers understand these illusions without seeing them in their own eyes or even touching them.
Renklerin canlılığı, dokunun sentetik boyaya çok benzemesi ve akışkanlıkla Hofer göz yanılsamasını arttırmış.
Hofer boost the illusions up by keeping the colors vibrant, the texture as smooth as synthetic wall paints and, of course, by making the sculptures look fluent.
Bazı parçalarında ise yerçekimi zırvalığını bir yere fırlatıp boyayı dans ettirmiş! Hatta bana yılan oynatıcılarının yılandan sıkılıp boyaları oynatmaya başlamalarını hatırlattı. Hofer bir sıvının gösterebileceği tüm estetikliği sanki boyaların ruhu varmış gibi göstermiş.
In some of his pieces Markus throws out the whole concept of senseless gravity and make his fluent paints dance! In fact, it looks like snake charmers got bored from snakes and started dancing the paint. Hofer tries to show us all the aesthetics that a liquid can have with adding them souls.
Markus’un sevdiğim bir diğer yanı da sokaklara da enstalasyonlarını yerleştirmesi. Soldaki bana burundan akmak üzere olan pembe bir sümüğü anımsattı
Another thing that I like about Markus is that he sets up his installation in streets too. The one on the left reminds me of a pink booger that comes out of a nose.
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source: scarcalblogspot
A me piace molto immaginare il concepimento di un’opera d’arte, di un pensiero; la scintilla che dà ad un artista la voglia di sperimentare, di provare a realizzare qualcosa di nuovo.
Spesso quando l’opera è spettacolare immagino qualcosa di avventuroso a cui l’artista ha partecipato o assistito, ma l’emozione più grande la provo avanti ad opere semplici, scaturite magari da episodi ancora più semplici (naturalmente stiamo parlando di mie supposizioni).
Markus Hofer è un artista tedesco che suscita in me proprio le sensazioni di cui parlavo.