Tobias Hoffkencht at A+B Gallery / Brescia

Tobias Hoffkencht
Pattern

27.11.2021 – 12.02.2022

A+B Gallery
Corsetto Sant’Agata, 22
Scala C, first foor
25121 Brescia
Italy

Images courtesy the artist and A+B Gallery

Photos: Petro Gilberti

PATTERN is the title chosen for Tobias Hoffknecht’s
third exhibition with A+B Gallery in Brescia. It is the very first exhibition
in the new gallery space in Corsetto Sant’Agata known for having been chosen,
back in 18th century, as a location to host a Renaissance collection. The
sculptures of medium and big size have been created purposely for PATTERN and
will greet the spectator as a unique installation where colors, shapes and
proportion of the historical architecture entwine with those more actual
conceived by the artist.
 

The games of proportion on which is based Tobias
Hoffknecht’s research are a part of an idea of rupture of the limit set by the
nature of the materials coming from the industrial standard. Intuition and
emotion are the elements that give form to the metallic tube welded and
varnished: this is the concept on which the project is based. The architecture
of the gallery has been reconstructed with five new elements that will
influence the acting of the spectator that will be on contact with the
materiality of the exhibition.

Ral 3020, Traffic Red, is the color used by Tobias
Hoffknecht for this solo show. Even the color is conceive as the standard
material and it gives the object the ability to be identified as such. Surface,
shape, color and space however have transformed it into poetical declaration.

 The starting point of the process of creation that the
artist starts up with is the drawing which is the ideal element that could be
the miniature of an object. Or an intuition generated from the urban ambiance
and design catalogues. From the drawing Hoffknchet moves onto the 3D planning
software whose task is to define proportions, connections and color. The
solution that are afterwards chosen for the production of the artist are those
that have the ability to cross or break the space in which it will be
installed.