During the Corona curfew, one had to learn to deal with the new experience of „social distancing“. Such a restriction, which caused feelings of isolation, confinement and also anxiety, was of course completely new to me in this extreme form. The only possibility to escape the cramped apartment and the eerily deserted city for a while was the nearby Vienna Woods. In the exhibition I show three forest pictures that are related to these walks in the open air. I painted them at home during that time. Their installation in the container is inten- ded to illustrate the situation at that time and my feelings associated with it. Upon entering the narrow, windowless container space, the visitor is surprisingly greeted by a tinsel curtain, which is meant to evoke a sense of a distant, shiny party atmosphere.Opposite the only door (the entrance door), one looks at my three forest paintings that suggest a possi- ble way out.Rather abstracted, slightly blurred and strongly reduced to light and shadow, they appear vague and indis- tinct at first glance, were it not for the signal-colored „Signs“ shining on many a tree trunk, signposts out of uncertainty. Nature, an endangered space, controlled and endangered by man, and at the same time giving hope, an escape option from a city more or less brought to a standstill by the curfew. Exhibited in the Bureau Veritas of the Class for Graphic and Printmaking Techniques of the Akbild Vienna
