Portraits
Portrait painting has always been a special mirror of its time. It experienced its heyday in the Italian early Renaissance through painters such as Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Bellini, or Botticelli.
What appeals to me about portraits is the verticality that opens up in each person – as an anchor in the world. And of course, the dialogue. The listening. The moment when people push open the door and enter the narrative space. Whether it’s artists like Franz Welser-Möst, world-improvers like Monica Culen, business people like Siemens CEO Wolfgang Hesoun, adventurers like Hans Wallinger, or boundary-crossers like Bartholomäus Resch (pictured) – and whether it’s as text or as film or both – when their eyes sparkle, my heart sparkles too.
"The occult worlds of Bartholomäus Resch are defying any attempt of categorization since years. Even the most benevolent people from the valley agree that there is something odd going on up there. But they say it with a complicit smile and with the conviction that in the face of this event conventional attributioins along right and left are being crushed like the helpless log in the furious dance of fire."
