Come la neve per la lepre bianca
The second show by 1 Koffer Kunst takes place in Turin.
From 5th to 8th November 1 KoK will be at The Others Art Fair with the double solo show Come la neve per la lepre bianca (As snow to the white hare) displaying sculptures by Nele Waldert and paintings by Harald Hofmann.
«But once the window was closed again, already feeling the void between his bunched fingers, he turned to the patiently waiting lamp, to the scattered first drafts, to the still-warm pen which now quietly slipped back into his fingers (explaining the void and filling it) and returned at once to that world which was as natural to him as snow to the white hare or water to Ophelia.» (V. Nabokov "The Gift")
Come la neve per la lepre bianca (As snow to the white hare) is a quote from Nabokov that means to feel totally at ease, without stress or fears, at peace with yourself and with the world, making what you most like and what makes you most happy.
Our white hares are the artists Nele Waldert (1964) and Harald Hofmann (1967), both based in Düsseldorf, who bring very original perspectives to their work. They studied at the famous Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, just like Joseph Beuys and many others celebrated figures of contemporary art. Although clearly figurative, their works seem to express a need of pureness and essentiality.
Harald Hofmann pursues this need through clean and precise paintings that represent his own atelier and houses (in Düsseldorf and in Berlin). The artist carefully places each and every piece of furniture or object in the room in order to obtain a specific composition and reach a specific condition of light, and then he depicts the scene accurately. His approach can recall the one by Giorgio Morandi with whom he shares the same, almost compulsive, preciseness and honesty.
Similarly, we find that same preciseness and honesty in Nele Waldert's totally white plaster sculptures. With her research she aims to represent the standard man, someone who can be at the same time everyone and no-one. By repeating the same subject over and over she has created a community of impassive, androgynous figures that we all seem to recognize even if we don't know who they are. Just like a white hare in the snow they disguise themselves in everyday life.
