About

Hurzlmeier’s geometric paintings posit archetypes of modern life playfully reduced to simple forms and shapes. His is an investigation into the boundaries of recognition; the extent to which an identity can be simplified while still retaining a clear sense of itself. If a portrait exists not only as a record of someone’s features, but as a representation of their character and life story, then this purposeful curtailment of narrative in his paintings reorients the essence of that existence to which we pay attention to a more generalised adhesive imagery. This process relates inversely to …