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Your mirrored thoughts in my Art: an Interview with Maciej Hoffman

26 February 2010 by Maciej Hoffman

Interview by Olga Zapisek (Scene 360 Magazine)

[…] I come from a home “Tainted by art,” my dad was a sculptor, my mom was a painter. When I was young, the natural course of fate was antagonism to following in my parents footsteps. The result of this was a “troubled” childhood, and young adulthood dedicated to mathematics and physics classes, which were shortly followed by a philosophy major at ATK (Theological Academy in Wroclaw). The change came in my third year of college, when one day I started drawing. And since then I couldn´t stop. […]

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Interview with Maciej Hoffman

6 June 2008 by Maciej Hoffman

Maciej Hoffman interviewed by Anna Leszkowska:

1. Fourteen years after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław in both sculpture at professor F. Kocianowski´s and painting at professor K. Jarodzki´s workshops your works appear in public. What happened that only now you have begun to feel the urge to show your paintings to the world? Did you create in seclusion, hidden from the world, or have you only now returned to the artistic activity? Why did it take so long?

After graduating from the Academy I went through a stage of fascination with new technologies, possibilities of computer designing, creating a picture with use of photography and the computer. I was also absorbed by the world of advertisement communication, creating publications and ad spots. At an advertising agency we set up together with my fellow artists we learnt how to create an advertising message on “live organisms” of our customers who were learning about the “capitalist business”. Everything there was new and attractive. It was then that I let myself get fooled by the impression that the traditional techniques and the profession of an artist are heading for extinction. [Read more…] about Interview with Maciej Hoffman

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