Holger Lippmann and Alekos Hofstetter
DVD projection (black and white, silent)
Related to their earlier Toronto Project (commissioned by Goethe-Institut Toronto as part of their "Urban Deconstructions" series in 2006) this complex and dynamic new computer animation is projected outdoors for Nuit Blanche with Daniel Libeskind's "Crystal" (currently in construction) as dramatic backdrop. The artists' compelling image of dissolution and expanding energy poses ironic comment on architecture in contemporary Toronto. The splintering lines and shapes of the projected DVD offer a crystalline proposal, a ballet of planes and struts in a continuous dance, constantly reforming and spinning in space. Black and white drawings by Hofstetter and Lippmann short-circuit the literal three-dimensionality of Libeskind's work: Toronto doubled and re-doubled.
Berlin-based Holger Lippmann studied sculpture at the Art Academy in Dresden, with further training in Stuttgart and Paris. His computer skills were honed in New York and Berlin, and since 1989 he has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions as well as with collaborative projects in Europe, Korea and elsewhere.
Painter Alekos Hofstetter was born in Bonn, grew up in Bonn, Brussels, and Bangkok and now lives in Berlin. His work has been included in many group exhibitions in Europe, with solo exhibitions in Berlin, Dresden, Paris, and in Toronto (Luft Gallery, 2004; Goethe-Institut, 2006).
In association with the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Image: Still from Holger Lippmann and Alekos Hofstetter's Nuit Blanche
Map location 6
Royal Ontario Museum, construction site of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, Bloor Street West (south side, west of Queen's Park/Avenue Road)
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