With his series "Apocalypse," Austrian photographer Josef Fischnaller creates a fascinating fusion of past and present. Inspired by the great epochs of art history, Fischnaller transforms classical imagery into elaborately staged, contemporary photographs full of hidden irony and subtle disruption. Seemingly contradictory elements collide in his works: Elegant allusions to the Renaissance and Baroque merge with pop-cultural miniatures, futuristic figures, and iconic accessories from film and music.
Fischnaller stages meticulously detailed scenes that, at first glance, are reminiscent of great masters, but upon closer inspection, bring the motifs into the present with a tongue-in-cheek humor. A Madonna receives digital messages, Baroque hunters are confronted with modern props, and well-known motifs from art history are transformed into pictorial quotations full of wit and surprises. Fischnaller masterfully guides the viewer into a world between the sublime and the absurd—and reinterprets the classic memento mori with contemporary relevance.
His works captivate with opulent costumes and subtle direction, adding a new, playful dimension to the art historical canon. Fischnaller plays with expectations and challenges our collective visual memory—always with a wink, always searching for new perspectives on the seemingly familiar.
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