Official description: Panorama brings together found objects with paintings and sculptures in a circular, purpose-built room, where past and future collide. Four canvases depict historic battles in a traditional baroque style, gradually turning into a technoid blur of pixels and vertical lines against a tapestry made up of composite images from disaster movies. As the artist explains, the work ‘uses the grammar of the future – of augmented reality and artificial intelligence – but the vocabulary of the past.’ All around, wounded and amputated objects and sculptures add to the a-historical layering of violence and mutilation. The artist confronts our relationship to violent imagery in this work, as well as the role of war in driving historical narratives. ‘Instead of valor, there is violence,’ states Schinwald. ‘Instead of identity, fragmentation.’

Markus Schinwald (born 1973 in Salzburg) is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work encompasses video, performance, dance, theater, painting, photography, installation, and even puppetry, to explore the transformation of bodies and their environments. Schinwald lives and works in Vienna and New York.