Herbert Hoffmann
#Photographe
- Exposition
« Tattoo, the face of freedom » in Teutloff Museum
The tattoo, originally “the tatau” ornaments the skin and thus abstracts everyday life. The Tattoo is a masquerade of the skin and marks the body itself as the place of fantasy. Because through the painted body - through the tattoo - the body itself becomes exotic and therefore there is no normal everyday life anymore. Now there is only an exotic and erotic everyday life possible.
To cover the body with signs is like opening a door. A door to paradise, to another place, to an utopian place. The body itself becomes this heterotopos. The body itself becomes this utopian place. The door of the tattoo leads to the theater of illusions - just think of Genet -, to the theater of desires like in a dream. The door of the tattoo leads to the room of childhood, to the chambers of the unconscious.
To tattoo o... - Exposition
La Halle Saint Pierre présente HEY! modern art & pop culture / Part II
Pour la seconde fois, le musée de la Halle Saint Pierre dirigée par Martine Lusardy et la revue HEY! s’associent pour présenter l’exposition HEY! modern art & pop culture. Anne & Julien, créateurs de la revue HEY! proposent une nouvelle rencontre entre les courants de la pop culture, les formes populaires de l’art moderne et contemporain, l’art outsider et l’art singulier. Cette fois encore avec des artistes rares qui ont fait germer leurs talents inestimables dans les marges.
Alors que la première édition réunissait plus de 64 artistes internationaux, HEY! modern art & pop culture / Part II renouvelle l’expérience avec de nombreuses figures issues de courants artistiques similaires et garantit la même “puissance de déco... - Exposition
A virtual exhibition - TATTOO
Tattoo
Curated by Peter Weibel, ZKM
The tattoo, originally "the tatau" ornaments the skin and thus abstracts everyday life. The Tattoo is a masquerade of the skin and marks the body itself as the place of fantasy. Because through the painted body - through the tattoo - the body itself becomes exotic and therefore there is no normal everyday life anymore. Now there is only an exotic and erotic everyday life possible.
To cover the body with signs is like opening a door. A door to paradise, to another place, to an utopian place. The body itself becomes this heterotopos. The body itself becomes this utopian place.
The door of the tattoo leads to the theater of illusions - just think of Genet -, to the theater of desires like in a dream. The door of the tattoo leads to the room of childhood, to t...
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