ISBN: 978-3-98741-016-1
https://www.verlag-kettler.de/de/buecher/benjamin-novalis-hofmann/

with text contributions by H-J. Hafner and R. Nocken
graphic design by A. Morlon

„20 Years Of Joy“

Edition 360 Ex.
+ 40 Ex. Special edition with silk-screen print inside
26 x 55 cm, double folded, numbered and signed

Pressetext Verlag Kettler:

For over two decades, Benjamin-Novalis Hofmann has cultivated an expansive repertoire of motifs and developed cycles of works that generate intricate constellations of allusion, dismantling the conventional dichotomy of abstraction and figuration as an increasingly obsolete category of interpretation. His painterly oeuvre asserts itself as hermetic in the most rigorous and affirmative sense: marked by an aesthetic of rare refinement, a deliberately constructed and self-reflexive pictorial artificiality, a sustained engagement with religious and philosophical dimensions, and a semantic indeterminacy that opens the work to an inexhaustible multiplicity of readings. The questions to which Hofmann returns with remarkable persistence are neither univocal nor exhausted by singular interpretation; rather, they unfold within a discursive field of striking variability and interpretive depth, profoundly shaped by a polyphony of visual and acoustic impressions that situate his production at the intersection of sensorial experience and speculative thought.

This volume affords a comprehensive perspective on the artistic trajectory of Benjamin-Novalis Hofmann, assembling a carefully curated selection of works that trace the evolution of his practice over the course of two decades. Hofmann’s oeuvre emerges at a critical juncture in contemporary art where the long-established dichotomies of abstraction and figuration are increasingly interrogated and transcended. His work operates through a sophisticated interplay of motif and series, weaving intricate networks of allusion that challenge conventional frameworks of pictorial representation.