10 Nov - 27 Nov 2016

Walks on trees and clouds

The exhibition will include bronze sculptures and paintings created by the master over the past few years.

"My sculpture expresses a sublime idea, a high notion about a human. All of it stretches upwards. As a result, it often does not even rest on the ground but develops in the air. My subject is the human way ... its passage on the ground, the eternal basic questions- “Where do we come from? ... Where are we going?... ". It seems to me that art should elevate a human. By this I somebody “sacralize” him, by representing him “at the height"" A. Hoffman (SADCO).

Andrew Hoffman (Sadko)

Andrei Hoffman (Sadko)
Born in Paris, in the family of Russian musicologist Rostislav Modestovich Hoffmann (1915–1975), who found himself in France with his parents at the age of eight, in 1923. The collection of drawings influenced the creative credo and, to some extent, aesthetic concept of the brothers. old masters, who was in the apartment of their grandfather, Modest Hoffmann, - a famous literary critic, a Pushkin scholar, a collector.

The first lessons of drawing and painting were received by the brothers from Yuri Annenkov, a leading artist in the art of Russian emigration and the Paris School. Andrei and Vladimir attended the famous Paris Academy Grande Chaumière. They graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the National High School of Fine Arts (École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts). One of the strong impulses in the appeal of Andrei and Vladimir to the sculpture was a visit to the workshop of Osip Tsadkin.