ELEKTROHALLE RHOMBERG, Salzburg (AT)'

THOMAS RIESS
WONDERLAND

opening: 26.01.2021, 12 - 6 pm
exhibition: 19.01.2021 - 8.3.2021
opening hours tuesday – saturday 12 – 6 pm
during the lockdown by appointment

ELEKTROHALLE RHOMBERG
Samergasse 28b
5020 Salzburg
AUSTRIA

+43 662 276441
office@elektrohalle-rhomberg.net 


In his work Thomas Riess deals with humanity and its perception of reality and time in multimedia. In an analytical way he collects pictorial information and puts it in a different context. By means of partially
abstract elements, his almost photorealistic figures and portraits experience a tense rupture. Especially in the era of social media, where self representation no longer creates any kind of identity, the faces of his protagonists are often changed beyond recognition and raise the question of authenticity. Through abstract interventions, Riess elevates his landscapes onto another level of perception. His work oscillates between reality and deception, event and memory, the foreseeable and the unpredictable, exposing realistic
painting as an illusion.

Thomas Riess was born in Tyrol in 1970, lives and works in Vienna.