Florian Süssmayr: Landschaften und Portraits

The Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery is pleased to announce a further presentation of the works of the Munich artist Florian Süssmayr. He will be showing new paintings devoted to the themes of landscape and portrait and combining them with text-based paintings.
What are the traces left behind by violence, war and excess? What mark does history leave on landscapes and people? Do man and nature show the violence they have suffered?
Florian Süssmayr describes the consequences of actions that took place in the past but left their mark on people and places. Mostly there is nothing tangible to be seen. While his early “Colour and Football Fields” describe a football match, all they show is a deserted field. His interiors, with their lonesome tables and chairs, are places where something has taken place, something that can still be sensed but is no longer visible.
Some landscapes from his new series are titled “Unknown Place, Poland” and stand for
unknown victims in unknown places. On one of the paintings one can see dead dogs strewn over the ground, while another one depicts a battle trench, but most of them immediately convey a sense of destruction without such associative motifs.