| Bertram Hasenauer’s delicate coloured pencil drawings, portraits and high contrast landscapes as well as text fragments, convey an idea of a timeless realm in which one loses oneself. The narrative element is to a greater extent abandoned showing the individuals in total isolation and thus creating a discrepancy with reality. His figures shut themselves off from the viewer by turning away or freezing in their own gestures. They always maintain their distance by fixing the viewer with their intense eyes but simultaneously seem to be lost in deep thought somewhere far away. This transforms the viewer into a spectator, as the protagonists do not allow any interaction. Significant is that Hasenauer uses photographic templates from the media and alienates its subjects to the extent that no direct reference is recognisable. The essence of these drawings -the detachment from reality- thus persists, leaving the secluded figures to resemble a memory or a dream. |
