The Revelation
In the heart of Vienna, just around the corner of the museum of modern and contemporary art (MQ), Gardegasse 3 - you will find one of the city’s oldest houses. From now on this building - a luxury boutique Hotel - received a facelift, by the award-winning artist Tom Lohner. In collaboration with Hollywood actress Rose McGowan and Calle Libre (national street art representatives) he developed the concept for an over-scale mural art piece, capturing thoughts, emotions, impacts and influences but also hope for a cure of the Corona pandemic. Years ago we created memorial sculptures of contagious plages or war memories, today Tom brought current events in a contemporary method visually to life.
The art piece anticipates, by pinkish arrows and word-fractures, the viewers to walk around the house’s corner, in order to detect a revelation of the entire artwork. It shows in an ecclesiastical way two large figures - a woman and a man, wrapped in seemingly never-ending coats - praying for a Corona antiserum. Instead of using fictional characters, Tom decided to paint Rose McGowan and Kurt Russell. Why? - because the entire Corona period, with all it’s following happenings, appear like a Hollywood film production, resembled by flying TV sets and further wording. Placed between two windows you can also find a young girl wearing a facial mask, looking towards the two protagonists, resembling aspiration towards a good end and the beginnings of a new chapter in future history.
Tom Lohner created this piece within 2 weeks (06.09 - 06.19 2020).
QUOTE / Rose McGowan:
”You did a fantastic job! I’m honored and it says so much. Proud to be a part of this art and thought for the world to see. “