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    The exhibition at Galerie Susanna Kulli from August 30 to September 28, 2012 focuses on the graphic artist Armin Hofmann's engagement with color, which has received little attention previously. It features a unique portfolio of 12 silkscreen prints from 1989-1999 in which Hofmann explores color independent of objects through arrangements of triangles. Accompanying materials from Hofmann's archive provide insight into his pedagogical approach of sensitizing students to color's qualities without rigid systems. The exhibition examines Hofmann's limited but important use of color in architecture and public spaces.

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    The exhibition at Galerie Susanna Kulli from August 30 to September 28, 2012 focuses on the graphic artist Armin Hofmann's engagement with color, which has received little attention previously. It features a unique portfolio of 12 silkscreen prints from 1989-1999 in which Hofmann explores color independent of objects through arrangements of triangles. Accompanying materials from Hofmann's archive provide insight into his pedagogical approach of sensitizing students to color's qualities without rigid systems. The exhibition examines Hofmann's limited but important use of color in architecture and public spaces.

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    The exhibition at Galerie Susanna Kulli from August 30 to September 28, 2012 focuses on the graphic artist Armin Hofmann's engagement with color, which has received little attention previously. It features a unique portfolio of 12 silkscreen prints from 1989-1999 in which Hofmann explores color independent of objects through arrangements of triangles. Accompanying materials from Hofmann's archive provide insight into his pedagogical approach of sensitizing students to color's qualities without rigid systems. The exhibition examines Hofmann's limited but important use of color in architecture and public spaces.

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    The exhibition at Galerie Susanna Kulli from August 30 to September 28, 2012 focuses on the graphic artist Armin Hofmann's engagement with color, which has received little attention previously. It features a unique portfolio of 12 silkscreen prints from 1989-1999 in which Hofmann explores color independent of objects through arrangements of triangles. Accompanying materials from Hofmann's archive provide insight into his pedagogical approach of sensitizing students to color's qualities without rigid systems. The exhibition examines Hofmann's limited but important use of color in architecture and public spaces.

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    Press release: Exhibition

    Armin HofmannFarbe
    A project by Fabienne Ruppen and
    Christof Nssli
    www.armin-hofmann.ch

    August 30September 28, 2012


    Opening: Wednesday, August 29,
    starting at 6 p.m.
    Season opening of the Zurich galleries:
    August 29/30/31, 2012

    Galerie Susanna Kulli


    Dienerstrasse 21, CH8004 Zrich
    T +41 43 243 33 34, F +41 43 243 33 35
    www.susannakulli.ch
    TueFri 16 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.4 p.m.;
    extended hours Wed 68 p.m.

    It has always seemed to me that there must be a life of color as such, divorced from any object. (Augusto
    Giacometti, Die Farbe und ich, 1933)Until now, the reception of Armin Hofmanns oeuvre has focused on this
    renowned Swiss graphic artists posters, which are largely in black and white. The exhibition at Galerie
    Susanna Kulli now offers the first in-depth look at his intense engagement with color. Its centerpiece is a
    portfolio of silkscreen prints that is unique in Hofmanns oeuvre.
    The silkscreen portfolio is complemented by writings and sketches from Hofmanns private archive and
    problems he assigned in his classes. Recollections of four of his former studentsPhilip Burton, April Greiman,
    Aki Nurosi, and Moritz Zwimpferopen up new perspectives on Hofmanns close engagement with
    issues of color.
    Each of the twelve plates in the portfolio, created between 1989 and 1999, shows four triangles arranged
    in a square. By eliminating light-dark contrasts, Hofmann was able to focus on color as such and the contrasts
    specific to itcoldwarm and luminousdull, as well as contrasts in hue and quantity. As Hofmann emphasizes,
    the twelve plates should not be regarded as final results; they are guideposts in a process, and their order
    is variable. The reduction to a single problem held constant led him to a more nuanced vision and a growing
    awareness of the sensual qualities of color: When you work in this manner, you become
    ever more refined, more sensitive.
    In his teaching, too, Hofmann sought to raise his students sensitivity for the qualities and effects of color.
    He had no interest in imparting an authoritative system of color, striving instead to accommodate the individual
    element in color perception. Of particular interest in connection with the silkscreen portfolio, which Hofmann
    describes as a sort of account of my pedagogical activities, is a problem he assigned in a class in 1984. The
    extant sketches produced by the students and their final results bear considerable compositional and
    chromatic resemblance to the twelve plates in Hofmanns portfolio.
    Two case studiesof the former PTT-Areal in Arlesheim and the high school in Disentisfurther illustrate
    Hofmanns use of color in three dimensions. Both buildings were designed by the architects Hermann and
    Hans Peter Baur, early advocates of an integration of the arts into architecture; during the almost six decades of
    their collaboration with Hofmann, they frequently involved the artist in the planning process from the very outset.
    Art for public spaces was the only field of his practice in which Hofmann employed color as a defining
    artistic element. As in the silkscreen portfolio and in his classes on color, the study of the relativity of chromatic
    values was central. The critical examination of the role of the mark in its context pervades Hofmanns entire
    oeuvre. The engagement with color added another layer to this complex issue and may be seen as bringing
    further nuance and elaboration to his teaching of form.
    We would also like to bring our
    evening events to your attention:
    Thursday, September 6
    Teaching color (in German)
    A panel discussion with Marcella
    Wenger-Di Gabriele (Haus der Farbe,
    Zurich), Ulrich Bachmann (Institut fr
    Farbe und Licht IFL, Zurich), and
    Moritz Zwimpfer (graphic artist and
    writer, Basel)
    Thursday, September 13
    Have you noticed? Color as an
    interface between art and
    architecture (in German)
    A conversation between Mike Guyer
    (Gigon/Guyer architects, Zurich)
    and Adrian Schiess (artist, Zurich),
    moderated b
    y Stefan Wagner
    (independent art historian, Zurich)
    Both events begin at 7:30 p.m.
    Admission is free.

    Armin Hofmann (b. Winterthur, 1920)


    lives in Lucerne. After training as a
    lithographer, he worked as a freelance
    graphic artist; clients included the
    Stadttheater and the Kunsthalle in Basel.
    For many years, he taught at a variety
    of institutions, including the Allgemeine
    Gewerbeschule Basel (AGS, now Schule
    fr Gestaltung Basel/Basel School
    of Design), where he and Emil Ruder
    initiated the advanced visual design
    class in 1868; the Yale University School
    of Art in New Haven; and the National
    Institute of Design in Ahmedabad.
    Armin Hofmanns works are held
    by international collections and have
    been presented in numerous solo and
    group exhibitions; his textbook
    Graphic Design Manual (published
    by Niggli-Verlag) has become a classic.
    Armin Hofmann has received several
    awards for his work including, most
    recently, the Medal of the American
    Institute of Graphic Arts in 2011.
    Solo exhibitions (selection):
    Armin Hofmann. Posters, The Museum
    of Modern Art, New York, 1981;

    Posters. The Basel School of Design


    and Its Philosophy. The Armin Hofmann
    Years 19461986, Moore College of
    Art, Philadelphia, 1986; Armin Hofmann,
    Swiss Institute, New York, 1986;
    Armin Hofmann. Graphic Design. Werk,
    Erkundung, Lehre, Die Neue Sammlung,
    Staatliches Museum fr angewandte
    Kunst, Munich/Deutsches Plakat
    Museum, Essen, 1989/1990; Armin
    Hofmann. Poster Collection,
    Plakatraum, Museum fr Gestaltung,
    Zurich, 2003.
    Group exhibitions (selection):
    Word and Image. International Poster
    Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art,
    New York, 1968; Plakat hoch drei:
    Joseph Mller-Brockmann, Armin
    Hofmann, Celestino Piatti, Galerie
    Intergraphic, Munich, 1969; 30 Jahre
    Plakatkunst, Gewerbemuseum, Basel,
    1983; The 20th century Poster.
    Design of the Avant-Garde, Walker Art
    Center, Minneapolis, 1984;
    100 Jahre Schweizer Grafik, Museum
    fr Gestaltung, Zurich, 2012.

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