Publisher's Synopsis
Designed in three volumes and appearing anti-chronologically, the latest part from Michael Hofstetter's artistic work with a work overview from 2011-2019. He asks with his work in VOL 3 about living on contemporary art beyond a promise of eternity of museumization and capitalist investment. He is concerned with the relationship of revaluation and devaluation, destruction and a new beginning, recycling and upcycling. Hofstetter writes his own works continue or has them updated. The temporal course becomes-sometimes through the participation of the viewer-a defining moment of the work itself. In this 3rd volume Hofstetter's art shows itself as a game between reception and intention in its socio-political consequence. It draws lines between the history-erasing strategy of the first Avantgarde and the terrorism of the IS, between participatory reception as a leisure experience and design, between iconoclasm and recycling. Decay or utopia, dissolution or redemption, commodity or revolution. As an illustrated book with an integrated part of theoretical texts about his work, VOL 3 provides an overview of the work and takes a critical look at the situation of the contemporary art.
