BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO school (Sevilla, 1617... Lot n° 36

PAUL HOFFMAN ( Russia, 1943). Untitled, 1981. Pine wood and plywood. Some slight damage to the wood. Measurements: 143 x 154 x 90 cm. EXHIBITED AT: - Aele Gallery, Madrid, 1981. - ARCO'82, Aele Gallery, Madrid. Round sculpture in which the artist plays with a fluid and continuous form that twists on itself, leaving a great protagonism to the space. About Paul Hoffman's sculptures it is interesting to rescue the words collected in the book Exposiciones de arte actual en Zaragoza: Reseñas escogidas: 1962- 2012, which has a review of 4 March 1979, written for the artist's exhibition at the Galería Pepe Rebolllo DE Zaragoza "The arrangement of spaces assumes vital importance, it unites various supports, redistributes with superimposed quotations, creates zones and transmits forms beyond the limits. It suggests or realises the possibility of extension, the extension to larger dimensions. The writing, the way in which elements and levels are related, responds to an intellectual bias that cannot be penetrated". Paul Hoffman-Richter was a visual artist born in 1943, of Russian origin, but of American nationality. He began working in the 1960s, developing an artistic career far removed from the pop preponderance of the time, moving towards a path close to the precepts of minimal art. Uninterested in the gestural elements of abstract expressionism, minimalist artists focused on delivering artworks that brought together primarily clean, polished lines and geometric elements. The early flowering of conceptualism was significantly influenced by the purity of minimalism, but went further by denying all predefined conceptions inherent in art.