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De nouveaux jours brillaient

03/18/2023 - 04/27/2023
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De nouveaux jours brillaient
installation view

De nouveaux jours brillaient
installation view

De nouveaux jours brillaient
installation view

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Et rien ne l'éteindra, 2023
oil on canvas
160x130 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Avait pris les étoiles, 2023
oil on canvas
200x160 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Le douzième jour, 2022
oil on canvas
195x130 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
De nouveaux jours brillaient, 2023
oil on canvas
160x130 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
C'est la vie, 2023
oil on canvas
38x46 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Chez toi, 2022
oil on wood
22x16 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Viens, 2022
oil on wood
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Mon âme, 2022
oil on wood
22x16 cm
Unique artwork, Not available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Mother, 2023
oil on canvas
24x19 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
The last Chapter, 2022
oil on canvas
41x43 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Illumination, 2023
oil on paper mounted on canvas
41x27 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Une dernire fois, 2023
oil on canvas
46x38 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Ciao, 2023
oil on canvas
30x39 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Amour jaune, 2023
oil on canvas
30x40 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Mother 2, 2023
oil on canvas
18x14 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Ego trip, 2023
oil on canvas
40x33 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
La chaussure d'Eva.B, 2023
oil on canvas mounted on canvas
40x30 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Small Apocalypse 3, 2022
oil on canvas
38x22 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Gold Ashes, 2022
oil on canvas
40x30 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Small Apocalypse 1, 2022
oil on paper
48x36 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Small Apocalypse 2, 2022
oil on paper
48x36 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
Remains, 2022
oil on paper
48x36 cm
Unique artwork, available

Karine Hoffman
Karine Hoffman
My soul, 2022
oil on canvas
60x90 cm
Unique artwork, available

Press release

For her third solo exhibition at Galerie Dix9, Karine Hoffman continues her spiritual quest by drawing on Victor Hugo's epic poem "The End of Satan". First evidency, some sentences such as  "Avait pris les étoiles" (Had taken the stars) or "De nouveaux jours brillaient" (Some new days were shining), are fragments of the famous text that become titles of several paintings. But if the title can give a reading track, the mystery remains in each of the canvases.
Each painting by Karine Hoffman is an enigma of which no one will really have the key. In these "huis clos" of which she has the secret, the eye and the spirit move, collide with objects, seek in the chiaroscuro an exit that in fact does not exist. In these never-named places, in this imaginary house continually re-visited by the artist, walls and floors as well as doors and windows are hidden- they are  made interior. The outside and the inside interpenetrate, they dispute the pictorial space making unstable our vision, our certainties as to the exact nature of the dramas that are played. Because it is an introspective painting, made of ellipses, selective memory, missing links.