Florian Süssmayr

In his new works, Florian Süssmayr goes a step further: he has selected “non-motifs” from his artists’s book “Painting & Photography”, published by one star press in Paris in 2009. The book shows photographs, studies, possible motifs next to already existing paintings, which have been reproduced photographically. The deliberately rough reproduction has in parts been made even rougher by subsequent photocopying several times over. The images have been arranged by the artist on double pages in complex mises-en-scène. Black-and-white has been printed on uncoated paper – very rough.
These decoloured colour photographs and illustrations are processed into oil paintings in fine gradations of grey – as paired images on double pages. Florian Süssmayr experiments with different aggregate states of his works, changing his techniques and materials and using different supports for his motifs. He is interested in transformation: reproducing paintings photo­graphically with flash, utilizing the reflection on shiny, thinly applied oil paint for the making of a new painting and then using the latter as the artwork for a poster edition on paper. The implied expectations of the respective medium are also exploited.