The Gallery · Room II · Wearable art, literally
EISENBERGER× POAN
Christian Eisenberger painted on cloth POAN sent him. Georg Weissacher cut the paintings into garments and stretched what was left into canvases. Each garment exists once.
Room II · the filmThe sets
Cut from the painting
Eisenberger's gesture is echoed in Georg Weissacher's cut and silhouette: movement, power, sensuality. A limited capsule with a strong accent on zero waste, where the remnants of each painted cloth became a canvas.
The photographs
Shot by James KellyThe canvases held up as flags, the models in front of them like a legion.
The artist
Christian
ChristianEisenberger
Austrian artist, first known for thousands of painted cardboard cut-outs he placed, at first anonymously, in public space: outcasts at first, later famous figures of history, often with halos.
Christian Eisenberger on Wikipedia
