5/7/2023 0 Comments Fischl wallpaper![]() I paint from photographs and collages of scenes. I’m not looking to create a linear storyline, but more a series of instances that stand alone. Being a painter is always a combination of incredible pleasure and an incredible pain, but it’s that interest with capturing or creating those instances that fascinates me.īB: It’s not just the body that features in your work, though, it’s your wonderful sense of movement.ĮF: Photography taught me that. That’s the sort of tightrope I walk, trying to find out: where is that moment? If you don’t stop it at the right point, it becomes too vague or conversely too conclusive. And for me, to find a place to stop, the place that is the most charged. But the difference between a cinematic narrative that extends the subject matter over a period of time, versus the painting, which brings that narrative down to a single moment – it’s a totally different sensibility. ![]() So they think it’s a natural thing to move into film. First of all, because I grew up watching movies and TV long before I even saw a painting. All my work has something to do with characters who feel like they’re masters of their domain, but have something missing.īB: I often describe your work to others as quite cinematic and I feel like I want to see the continuation, the continuation of that discomfort that lingers in all your paintings: has that ever interested you?ĮF: People have asked me whether I would be interested in making films. She's done up to attract his attention, but she’s also resigned to the fact that this is something in the male DNA, something expected. But the older man is paying more attention to the youthful female and the older woman is drinking, smoking, more isolated. In one of my paintings, you’re presumably looking at a middle-aged couple, near them two younger figures who are presumably their children, or perhaps not, standing around a swimming pool. There’s something missing, I think, at the centre of all the work – there’s a feeling of something that’s not there. Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers)
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