CHARLES RIVA COLLECTION TO PRESENT EXHIBITION OF ANDREAS HOFER

CHARLES RIVA COLLECTION, BRUSSELS, WILL BE PRESENTING AN EXHIBITION ABOUT THE WORK OF ANDREAS HOFER, ONE OF THE LEADING GERMAN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. THE SHOW WILL DISPLAY DRAWINGS, COLLAGES, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES. IN HIS WORK, ANDREAS HOFER CREATES COMPLEX VISUAL WORLDS BASED ON NARRATIVE STRUCTURES. HIS THEMATIC AND FORMAL REFERENCES DEFY ANY CATEGORIZATION. HIS VOCABULARY RANGES FROM CHRISTIAN, SATANIST, ASTROLOGICAL OR MYTHOLOGICAL SYMBOLISM TO RECOLLECTIONS FROM ART HISTORY, WHEREAS HE JUXTAPOSES FIGURES FROM THE FIFTIES, POP CULTURE AND COMIC STRIP WITH ICONS OF MODERNISM OR SCIENCE-FICTIONS, AND CONFRONTS ELEMENTS OF HORROR FROM THE WESTERN MASS MEDIA WITH THE DISGRACED, BANNED STYLISTIC FEATURES THAT MARKED THE ART OF THE THIRD REICH. USING THOSE SUBJECT MATTERS, HOFER EXTRACTS THESE SIGNS FROM A FORBIDDEN WORLD, PRODUCING ARTWORKS THAT TRAVERSE TIME TO BECOME AN INCISIVE REFLECTION AND FANCIFUL MEDITATION ON HISTORY AND POPULAR CULTURE. SIGNING HIS WORKS WITH THE ALTER EGO 'ANDY HOPE', AND THE DATE '1930', HOFER SIMULTANEOUSLY INVOKES ANDY WARHOL AND A DARK ERA OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. ANDREA HOFER IS REPRESENTED IN MANY PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE AND HE CURRENTLY WORKS WITH HAUSER &WIRTH, LONDON/ZURICH AND METRO PICTURES GALLERY, NEW YORK.