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Article: Godwin Hoffmann. (Vera Engelhorn Gallery, New York City)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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VERA ENGELHORN GALLERY
This handsome exhibition of works on paper is not quite indicative of Godwin Hoffmann's main body of work. Working and exhibiting widely abroad, Hoffmann has installed shaped canvases in various environments--alongside bridges, on the walls of churches, inside an arch in an arcade. Those canvases present an odd hybrid of Abstract Expressionist and Color Field techniques that seem more decorative than anything else. This exhibition, however, included only one example of such work, and one senses that the black and white "drawings" are somehow studies for, or reactions to, the more highly finished and painstakingly sited canvases.
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