Artist: Joseph Geagan
Exhibition title: Cha-Cha Kaputt
Venue: Pina, Vienna, Austria
Date: August 17 – September 9, 2018
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Pina, Vienna
« They are not ghosts, » said ____, « they are corpses. They are not bodiless figures, they are made of flesh and blood. They eat, drink, love, laugh as if they were alive. But they are dead bodies. They do not walk at night as ghosts do, but in the middle of the day, in full sunshine. ____ is so alive because of those corpses that can be met in the streets, that sit in cafés, that kneel down to pray in dark churches, that move slowly and silently with their black eyes shining in their green faces, through the merry bustle of the towns and villages on feast and market days, among the living people who laugh, love, drink and sing. »
Curzio Malaparte, KAPUTT Isola di Capri 1943.
Joseph Geagan, Cha-Cha Kaputt, 2018, exhibition view, Pina, Vienna
Joseph Geagan, Cha-Cha Kaputt, 2018, exhibition view, Pina, Vienna
Joseph Geagan, Cha-Cha Kaputt, 2018, exhibition view, Pina, Vienna
Joseph Geagan, Cha-Cha Kaputt, 2018, exhibition view, Pina, Vienna
Joseph Geagan, Cha-Cha Kaputt, 2018, exhibition view, Pina, Vienna
Joseph Geagan, Das Leck, 2018, Oil on canvas, 116 x 70 cm
Joseph Geagan, Venison Gravy, 2018, Oil on canvas, 70 x 70 cm
Joseph Geagan, Les Demoiselles von Kaiserschmarrn, 2018, Oil on canvas, 70 x 70 cm
Joseph Geagan, La Guttersnipirina, 2018, Oil on canvas, 38 x 34 cm
Joseph Geagan, Fifi e der Aasgeier, 2018, Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
Joseph Geagan, Bone Frau, 2018, Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
Joseph Geagan, Schmettertwink, 2018, Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
Joseph Geagan, Hound of Schmutzig, 2018, Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm