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Peter Hoffer''Pastoral 20.1'' Contemporary Canadian Landscape Painting2020
2020
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Canadian artist Peter Hoffer (1965) is best known for his landscape paintings. His style has also been compared to the idealistic landscapes of the 19th-century landscape painter John Constable.
After a trip to Paris, Hoffer began to experiment with surface textures in the landscape. Thus, he began to sand and grind the layers of the painted surface. Subtly applied drops of paint seem to pay homage to the 20th century art movement abstract expressionism.
Intrigued by the early 18th century French Salon, where artists re-embellished their unsold works, Hoffer completes his paintings by applying a coat of Dammar varnish and a coat of epoxy to create a reflective dome surface. This gives depth to his landscapes.
Luminous skies set by the outline of trees, the drama of light and shadow. The viewer has to get closer, change their perspective and look longer to overcome reflections so that they can see the details glitter beneath the surface.
"I wanted to do the landscape in a manner in which it is personified. Where the tree becomes the individual, even playing on some clichés."
While admiring the beauty of the work, we are aware that a modern artist asks the viewer to consider the process and act of creation itself. Intriguing is an image that is both classic and modern.
Peter Hoffer's work is widely praised and collected. Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec and the German consulate in Toronto are in possession of his work. The famous Hôtel Le Reine Elizabeth in Montreal also has a work by Hoffer hanging in one of the public spaces.
Hoffer studied painting and sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and the University of Guelph, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993. After a stay in New York City, he studied sculpture at Concordia University in Montreal, graduating in 1996 with a master’s in fine art.
- Creator:Peter Hoffer (1965, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2020
- Dimensions:Height: 20.08 in (51 cm)Width: 59.85 in (152 cm)Depth: 1.97 in (5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Utrecht, NL
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Peter Hoffer
Peter Hoffer's contemporary paintings have been described as being as much about studio materials and techniques as the subjects they convey. Peter Hoffer portrays trees. He invites the audience to take a closer look at their posture, their details and their expressions. The subject is as important as the technique: the way trees grate, scratch and age is as much of a concern to Hoffer as the trees themselves. They are painted in a very classical, realistic and almost photographic manner, but they have a strong contemporary feeling imparted by the epoxy resin finish and the rough wooden box on which the artist paints. Hoffer’s work is a paradoxical mix of past and present, old and new, rough and sophisticated, realistic and abstract, outside perspective and intimate feeling. The trees that Peter paints are not a copy of an existing geography. Sometimes he paints from photographs, but most of the time these trees are reminiscences. However, whether they exist or not, he sees his work as more about technique, about how he perceives the world, rather than the reality of the world itself. A few kilometres from Montreal, Peter has a cottage in the middle of the forest, which has become his lair, a place where he loves to paint. When he gets started, he starts by painting with oil on wood, then the more creative part begins: he applies touches of acrylic paint and several coats of epoxy varnish, which he makes himself. This process was inspired by the varnishes used in the academic painting salons of the 19th century, a way of embellishing paintings and conserving them. For the artist, it is a question of staging evocative landscapes, which will awaken memories, dreams, a feeling of déjà vu in each one. But at the second reading, if we see more than a landscape but a true reflection on art, the representation of nature and the painting as an object in itself, then he will have succeeded in his wager.
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