From the early thirties until 1958, despite poverty, world wars, oblivion, and immigration, Hofmann's schools in New York and Provincetown became a nexus of visual experimentation for generations of students, who included collectors, critics, curators, dealers, and hundreds of influential artists and teachers, generating not just a variety of art movements, but also economic and cultural growth. (milesmcenery.com)
In the works exhibited, he employs fragments and debris gathered from Italian walls, enabling a connection with the city and the people inhabiting it — a fundamental theme of his practice that, stemming from visual experimentation, deals with memory, migration, and lived experience in a type of contemporary palimpsest that ponders society as a whole. (moussemagazine.it)
He began his artistic explorations with visual experimentation inspired by the work of pioneers of geometric abstraction, such as Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, as well as by the playful and whimsical figuration of Paul Klee. (studiointernational.com)