Hanspeter Hofmann: Bonheur Automatique - Softcover

Cherix, Christophe; Doswald, Christophe; Sarasin, Philipp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3905770679 ISBN 13: 9783905770674

Publisher: JRP Ringier, 2007

Synopsis

The life of Basel-based artist Hanspeter Hofmann seems to be a romantic artist's biography: trained as a natural scientist, he turned to quasi-alchemical experimentations as processes of form-finding, and to printing techniques for grounding his pictorial work. Seen from another angle, Hofmann also refers to the visual cliches of the consumer culture industry as they are represented in mass media, and recontextualizes its icons. "Bonheur Automatique" makes evident this contiguity of meaning and work in Hofmann's artistic strategy. Both an artist's book and a catalogue raisonne of his prints, this publication recreates on offset plates the construction of images in his work and documents the development of his oeuvre and themes. It is published with the Kunsthaus Graz and the Villa Arson, Nice.

About this edition

• Publisher: JRP Ringier
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3905770679
• ISBN 13: 9783905770674
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Doswald Christophe