Wooden Chair, paint;
Signed and dated on the underside;
34,5 x 29,2 x 16,8 in inch
A common chair becomes a symbol of movement, orientation and direction through a single, decisive change – a backrest curved into an arrow shape. Hofer plays with the viewer's expectations: the chair, the epitome of calm and stability, now points in a direction itself, it 'shows” instead of just 'supporting”. This creates a poetic contradiction between function and meaning, between standstill and dynamism. With a keen sense of form and irony, Hofer continues his characteristic strategy of transforming everyday objects into intelligent, conceptually dense sculptures through minimal interventions.
