April 22nd is the sixth of an ongoing series of monumental drawings, started four years ago, depicting in word and image, the visualized diary entries of a fictional ‘Grand Tourist’ and flâneur, Albert Sitzfleisch.
Rather than a candid portrait of contemporary Europe, the drawings present a collage of observation, social commentary and concoction, following some of the strategies employed by literary fiction.
Executed in marker pens and acrylic paint on floor vinyl, the series re-imagines the idea of the ‘Grand Tour’, replacing the traditional itinerary with a hybridized topography of Europe, drawing on the ideological remnants of both recent histories and the everyday.
