Veit Laurent Kurz

What’s going to happen? Nothing? Abysmal Hoffmannesque horror?

The dark, mottled backdrop creates a mood also found in the artist’s earlier works, forming an ambient noise for the overlying depiction of everyday domestic and urban scenes. And yet another dimension superimposes itself upon this eerie scene: a network of curved lines, between which cartoonish wide-open mouths and eyes appear – an effect that reminds one of Picabia’s “Transparencies”, and is similarly projected into the space in the shape of suspended sculptures.

The scenes seem to evoke personal experience and experiencin ...