Bathers Painting

Aljoscha Farassat is an Austrian born visual artist living and working in New York City since 2008 As a self-taught photographer he began shooting the city streets of New York, eventually documenting his travels whilst on the road in the US, South America and Europe. A book was published in 2013 (11,789 miles) describing the U.S crossing, which was influenced by the old masters. In the beginning, his canvases were the streets of New York City and the small towns of the U.S. In an attempt to slow down the process of developing an image, the artist started to manipulate prints of photographs he had taken by applying color at first and later hydrochloride acid. His objective is to spend more time with a single image in times where we are looking at hundreds of images a day. The artist prolongs the image-making process to its slowest movement yet. The immediacy and abundance of images have become overwhelming. Now the artist attempts elongating the process even further into the medium of painting. 2020 was a very prolific year for the artist. The works encapsulate the paintings created in the year of the lockdown. Exploring long forgotten places and spaces. The time in isolation has presented the opportunity to clean out the metaphorical closet to pose the question “What is the relationship between time, space and emotion”. The artist’s work is an emotional approach to visualization.