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Email PageNordic State of Mind
September 4, 2007- September 29, 2007
Reception: September 6, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Flemming Hoff
Amos Eno Gallery
530 W 25th StAmos Eno Gallery is pleased to present the Danish painter Flemming Hoff’s first solo exhibition in New York titled "Nordic State of Mind", on view from September 4 - 29, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday September 6, from 6pm-8pm.
Flemming Hoff has a background in architecture and there is no denying this basis: his oil painting are meticulously build from scratch through use of various paint scrapers and the picture surface is essentially characterized by geometrical shapes and stringent, accurate compositions.
The works contain a longing or bleakness that has proven to be a fundamental part of the Nordic mind— darkness lurks in every corner even during the light summer nights. Hoff makes it apparent that the dawn only exists by virtue of the dusk – and vice versa. The almost meditative atmosphere that Hoff´s paintings set the stage for, they also break. The simplified, two-dimensional surface suddenly expands into three dimensions, and the space in which the eye has previously found peace, is now disturbed by flickering, physical structures.
Here we find the magic of Hoff´s paintings. The soft harmonies – a testimony to the musical inspiration of the artist – tilt into atonal sequences that are impossible to follow but nonetheless possess their very own beauty. An underplayed drama unfolds on the canvas, and logic, consistency and clarity fray at the edges. These paintings speak to us from a position somewhere between romanticism and modernism and reveal a picture space that – notwithstanding its minimalist expression – is saturated with matter, soul and spirit.
Flemming Hoff is a graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Architectural Department, Copenhagen. He works and lives in Denmark.
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