Alois Mosbacher

Parts of plants, a pair of old gloves, a cactus.
The elements with which Alois Mosbacher has been composing his paintings for years are everyday objects and look like flotsam on the shores of our civilisation. In his new series of works “To be a cactus today“, Mosbacher stitches his artefacts together into symmetrical objects and positions them centrally on canvases of the same size.
And suddenly there are a whole host of faces peering out of the pictures. The viewer makes eye contact with shards of clay, spider torsos and poppy blossoms – is she standing in front of a mirror and recognising herself? Or are they actually new creatures that Mosbacher is creating? In the blink of an eye, the grotesque faces have vanished and are completely reassembled in the next picture. The paintings pulsate in constant transformation, no process is ever complete, no fragment seems to remain in place for long. Alois Mosbacher’s paintings become snapshots of man’s fluttering identity.