Some need art

The artwork grows, blossoms and flourishes. Julian Hoffmann, an artist of drastic transformations, has created new works from the flotsam of our consumerist world. He finds and seeks out, and brings together things that do not belong together. The result is, as it were, a sun that has risen from the ‘debris’, the waste, where at first there was only a yellow blot.

Julian Hoffmann’s works are multifaceted. They are multi-layered: different levels within the ideal space of the image overlap. The picture substrate, such as wood, is collaged with foreign materials. It is difficult to distinguish between figure and ground. A flood of words, phrases and letters flows through the images.

Julian Hoffmann’s art does not confront us with the full extent of these contradictions. It is not his aim to replace art with documentation, nor to distil a panacea from it. Julian Hoffmann selects the themes and motifs of his art from lived experience.