Verläufe Gradients liquor Interview by Letizia Ragaglia Language

Interview by Letizia Ragaglia Language

It is as if one was dreaming the paintings

It is the testimony of a passed life of strong inner drama

Her oil paintings have nothing in common with the hyperrealism of Franz Gertsch or Chuck Close

Text by Gunter Damisch

Verläufe Gradients liquor Interview by Letizia Ragaglia LanguageErwin Bohatsch (*1951) was one of the leading painters of the Neue Wilden (New Wild Ones) in Austria in the 1980s, who, as a counter movement to the conceptual art of the 1970s, brought the aesthetic phenomenon of painting to a new level. In a reflection of the first modernism, his themes were determined by his interest in ethnographic research approaches and the theories of Claude Lvi Strauss. Since the 1990s, Bohatsch has increasingly devoted