Haven’t seen Surveillance Camera yet?

The works were made on the basis of photographs found in the 1950s magazine Wiener Film Revue. The first painting is a frame from the film Gibraltar, in which Erich von Stroheim almost strangles Viviane Romance, aroused by her laughter. This scene is accompanied by a caption which, in the artist’s intention, justifies the brutal gesture. The second painting was inspired by an article about the state of the two actors Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight in Vienna. In both canvases the artist draws on his own film Surveillance Camera, which deals with the individualisation of the life of an ordinary person by a city’s CCTV cameras. Setting it as a counterpoint to frames from the golden era of Hollywood cinema, he succeeds in achieving a striking contrast.