Rorschach Portrait

Hosking consequently established a body of work, which combines brilliant material aesthetics with perceptual patterns of psychology. His sculptures and wall objects present on first view fascinating independent forms and at the second view well-known schematics, for instance, the profiles of faces. Hosking develops his language of forms by the repetitive, varying fusion of Identically motives into one great shape. In that way he succeeds to place his works exactly at the cutting point of free form and unconscious recognition in perfect balance; you might call his work psychological formalism. Particularly he is fascinated by established principles of Perceptive Psychology. The term “Apophenia” deduced from the German term “Apophänie”, was introduced originally in the book “Die beginnende Schizophrenie. Versuch einer Gestaltanalyse des Wahns” of psychologist Klaus Conrad, which was Published in 1958. This term indicates a symptom from the initial stage of schizophrenia: the concerned persons start to see patters and messages in their daily environment, which are not visible for healthy probands. Paul Hosking forces similar effects in his work, but they are visible for everyone.

Stephan Koehler

Paul Hosking, Apophenia, Berlin
Michael Fuchs Gallery, Berlin

Paul Hosking, White Neon, 2017
Aluminium and neon
190 x 140 x 3 cm

Paul Hosking, Apophenia, Berlin
Michael Fuchs Gallery, Berlin

Paul Hosking, Apophenia

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (Green), 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
150 x 150 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (Grey), 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
120 x 70 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (red), 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
140 x 90 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (Dark blue), 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
120 x 70 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (light blue), 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
120 x 70 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (light blue) detail, 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
120 x 70 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (Yellow),2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
120 x 70 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorscach Portrait (Orange), 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
90 x 90 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Berlin
Hass and Fuchs Gallery Berlin

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (red) Detail, 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
140 x 90 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (Dark blue), 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
120 x 70 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Corten, 2017
Laser cut corten steel
285x 195x 3 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Corten, 2016
Laser cut corten steel
125 x 95x 3 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Corten, 2016
2016Laser cut corten steel195 x 60 x 3 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (Black), 2015
Coloured mirror on aluminium
122 x 122 x 3 cm

Paul Hosking, Rorschach Portrait (Grey) Detail, 2018
Coloured mirror on aluminium
70x 120 x 2 cm

Paul Hosking, Neon Sculpture, Berlin, DEAD HEADZ (Pink/Blue) , 2016
Neon
Dimensions variable