Florian Süssmayr

Following his “Travels through Germany”, commissioned by SZ-Magazin, the colour supplement of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and his first exhibition in the USA at Art Basel Miami Beach, the Munich artist Florian Süssmayr will now be showing his latest works at the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery. In contrast to his large mass scenes from polit-ical and cultural contexts, Süssmayr’s new works are again devoted to portraiture, the theme of his early drawings and paintings. Portraits of persons unknown, rock stars, hairdressing models, with such titles as “Salon Hairchic, Hartha” (in Saxony), allude to the gulf between pipe dreams and reality, between glitzy glamour and the dull routine of everyday life.