"★★★"
Review of Nicholas Robinson Gallery -> Florian Sussmayr: Interieurs Solo show:
Florian Sussmayr's work was very good as I walked into the Nicholas Robinson Gallery, this was not surprising since I have been fairly impressed by this gallery's shows. As you can see by the thumb-nail Sussmayr has a wonderful grasp of light and atmosphere. I would guess he is either very talented or he paints on top of photographs. either way the end product is both moody and realistic. There is also a surprising contemporary painting in this art show that looks as if the artist framed a real tile wall within the actual frame, but upon closer examination the wall turned out to be painted! Despite these accomplishments this Nicholas Robinson gallery ultimately fails on the side of content an curating. The subject matter of Sussmayr's paintings was so fractured and disconnected from painting to painting that the show seemed like a random drawing out of a portfolio that show cases the artist's talents. Furthermore, by the end of the show we get the impression that Sussmayr has attended upper class gatherings and events and suggests a life of indulgence. Despite these underlying imperfections Sussmayer has accomplished very good paintings. If you are in the Chelsea area this show is worth a quick look.
Press Release of Nicholas Robinson Gallery -> Florian Sussmayr: Interieurs:
Nicholas Robinson Gallery is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of new paintings by Florian Süssmayr. The current exhibition, entitled Interieurs, focuses both the artist’s and viewers’ attention on various iterations of interior spaces, one of the traditional genres of art history. Frequently de-populated and executed with the artist’s characteristic somber palette of monochromatic dark browns, Süssmayr’s interiors create an evocative atmosphere that is simultaneously disquieting, banal, and even, on occasions, gloomy or sinister. His fleeting glimpses of these spaces are often ambiguous - both artist and viewer participate in the viewing of the scene and yet are somehow also clearly excluded from belonging in them. It was the culture of punk rock, drink and drugs, soccer matches, underground movies, libertarian expression, and leftist political thought. The works in the show are documentary, yet expressive, evidence of the artist’s participation in life on the fringes of bourgeois society – they are ‘realistic’ and matter-of-fact depictions of this milieu, and are executed without cynicism or irony.
A number of the paintings tackle another traditional genre – that of the self-portrait. The artist is depicted either as a reflection in a surface in which he is photographing himself, or as part of a pin-board collage containing an image of himself and other biographically relevant images or references. The depiction of self is thus never direct, and continues the theme of detached observation and exclusion.
Florian Süssmayr has his roots in the social and political subculture pervasive in Germany in the 1980s. Originally a musician in the leftist post-punk scene, he has also been a film cameraman, and began painting in the late 1990s. Süssmayr has had a solo exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, and has participated in numerous other important gallery and museum exhibition in the last five years.
Florian Süssmayr was born in 1963 in Munich, Germany, and lives and works in Munich.[source]
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