For twenty years Benjamin-Novalis Hofmann has been working on a repertoire of motifs and series of works that create allusive references and make the traditional distinction between abstraction and figuration seem nonsensical. In its aesthetic quality, the artificial pictorial aesthetics, the religious-philosophical dimension and the indeterminacy of its meaning, his painterly work is in the best sense a hermetic work. The questions he takes up again and again are manifold, variable in their depth of interpretation, and influenced by a series of visual and acoustic impressions.

The book provides a comprehensive insight into the work of Benjamin-Novalis Hofmann and presents works from twenty years.