I’m happy to tell you about my upcoming solo show at [FKc] FORUM KUNST contemporary, Please join us at the opening: their space is immense, right within Stift Millstatt; the view of the lake is beautiful too 🙂
- Exhibition opening: July 6th, 2024 (6pm) — with introductory words by Andrea K. Schlehwein
- Duration: July 10th – August 7th, 2024; August 14th – August 31st, 2024
- Opening times: Wednesday to Saturday, 1-5pm, and individually (phone)
About the exhibition
“Christian Bazant-Hegemark will show new paintings and drawings from three series of works, focusing on different aspects of the human condition. With a great sense for depicting personal moments, he shows people in their vulnerability. His protagonists often seem to be involved in relaxed everyday moments: sitting, thinking, looking. You often feel like an observer of a scene that you can feel emotionally, but cannot fully understand. Bazant-Hegemark describes his interest in everyday scenes by saying that they often seem more harmless than they are. He is interested in trauma processing: “How do you depict the time after a traumatic event? Seen from the outside, life goes on as normal. What has changed is the inside: the nervous system, one’s personal perception. Depicting these states is a challenge for me.
After a series of photorealistic works in which the artist took great care to depict every detail in the creative process, Bazant-Hegemark’s latest series now shows people who are taken from their surroundings; they float or fly and seem to defy the laws of physics. Although the artist shows people and their bodies, his thoughts during the creative process were on inner themes of consciousness: “I wanted to discuss themes from spiritual literature with an artificial intelligence. I soon realized that AI lacks consciousness and that conversations beyond clichés are hardly possible as soon as it becomes philosophical”.
What does it mean to be human? Bazant-Hegemark’s pictures explore this question in a multi-layered way.”