Florian Süssmayr: "My art? Not an easy question."

[00:00:04] Speaker A: Segrete trace di memoria due Emil Aventisei. La dicciotesi medizione della rasegna internazionale arra contata dalle voce degli artisti. I'm here with Florian Sussmayer. Florian, can you tell us and can you tell the listeners about your art piece? [00:00:34] Speaker B: Not an easy question. So I was invited to be part of this show here and I really was very glad about this because this is a very traditional serial of exhibitions here in a very beautiful space. The problem for me was that I am a painter usually and I could not fix some paintings on the walls. And so I have to think about doing something different. This is why I made some prints hanging. And it's a little bit different presentation than usually for me. [00:01:15] Speaker A: And I see that the prints are very black and white and this dichotomy of dark and light. Can you tell us about that? [00:01:27] Speaker B: My paintings usually are black and white or some dark color and some bright color, but not in color. So it's nothing new for me. [00:01:40] Speaker A: What do you think is the importance of a manifestation like Segrete in this political landscape that is very much far right and very much revisionist about history? [00:01:56] Speaker B: So I can say something about political things in Germany, because in Germany people are told about fascism and Holocaust very seriously in school. Everybody is informed about fascism and National Socialism in Germany and every have to go to a concentration camp and things like that. And it still is like this. I think it's a very good thing. And Germans are aware of their own history, I think. And this is very important. And it's also very important here in Italy, of course. But I cannot tell you how political education works here in Italy.