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Look closely: painter Florian Süssmayr.
Here in his new exhibition in the Munich Schöttle Gallery.
© Astrid Schmidhuber
The painter Florian Süssmayr shows his new oil paintings at the Schöttle Gallery in Munich.
Our exhibition tip.
Somehow he ended up becoming a director after all.
Florian Süssmayr has always been attracted to the film industry – as an employee at the Munich Film Museum, as a lighting technician and cameraman.
But no, he couldn't have imagined directing it himself.
“I’m too impatient for that.
You have to get a lot of other people on board, and then it takes years to make a film.
With painting you can just start.” Cheers to Süssmayr’s impatience.
Born in Munich in 1963, he has established himself as a visual artist since the 1990s.
From now on, his new series “Florian Süssmayr shows (2024)” hangs in the Rüdiger Schöttle gallery.
What happened here?
Florian Süssmayr’s oil paintings like “Mercedes” here ignite the viewer’s imagination.
© Astrid Schmidhuber
Dark oil paintings;
Every motif is a trigger for the brain.
They all work on their own – and even more so when combined with each other.
Around 35 works can be seen in the Schöttle Gallery.
Florian Süssmayr arranged it cleverly.
For example the picture with the old Mercedes.
The car is abandoned on a forest path.
Two doors opened.
What happened?
The imagination starts immediately, spins a story, and the eyes look for further information about the possible plot behind the scene.
Next to “Mercedes” there are a series of pictures of ponds, tracks in a muddy street, a woman heroically riding a horse, and finally: a man who seems to be dangling from a tree in his underpants.
Did she escape from the car and he follow her - and did she finally hunt him down?
The film begins in your head.
Florian Süssmayr directs with the brush.
He is a master of capturing everyday things - paying attention to little things in his work that anyone older than five years would pass by carelessly.
In this series he is interested in what happens in secret.
He brings the paint and leather fetishists into the dim light, the fixers, too: the desperately lonely.
Most of the images are inspired by photos.
Put together from memories, associations, life itself. Film off.
Until April 6, 2024 in the Munich Galerie Schöttle, Amalienstraße 41. Tue.–Fri.
11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sat. 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.