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Lukas Hofmann
Sospiri, 2019Digital video10'06 minCopyright the artistFurther images
'A mythical opera unfolds in six brief hallucinatory acts, to reveal visions of a troupe of youths in medieval dress, leaving bite marks on skin covered in petroleum jelly, exchanging..."A mythical opera unfolds in six brief hallucinatory acts, to reveal visions of a troupe of youths in medieval dress, leaving bite marks on skin covered in petroleum jelly, exchanging units of breath and forming the links of a human perfume. With every action the air becomes denser, building towards its inevitable expiration." - Ari Nielsson, PAF Olomouc
Lukas Hofmann (b. 1993, Prague) is a Czech curator and artist who primarily works in performance art and fashion. Between 2012-2014 Hofmann studied at the CTU Faculty of Architecture. In 2014 and 2016, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he worked in the Studio of Conceptual Art Tomas Vane, and the Sculpture Studio of Dominik Lang, respectively. In 2019, Hofmann studied at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul. Hofmann was presented the Jindrich Chalupecky Award, a prize for exceptional young Czech Visual Artists, in 2018.
