(Vienna 1938–2022 Mistelbach, Lower Austria)
Relic painting (splatter painting) and cross stretcher, 1998, 6-Tage-Spiel, Schloß Prinzendorf and surrounding, 3–9.8.1998, acrylic on blood shained canvas, fixed on wooden frame along the top and bottom edges, stretched over wooden frame at the left and right edges, 200 x 300 cm
Kreuztragbahre/ cross stretcher: Blood and smeared particles on cotton mounted on wooden stretcher, 246 x 200 x 15 cm

For each work a expertise/Autentica, stamped o. m. theater archive 2185 prinzendorf 1 added in handwriting: 593 bzw. 594, and signed by the artist, 20.11.2019

Provenance:
Private Collection, Belgium

»meine arbeit ist eine feier des lebens und des todes, eine erinnerung daran, dass wir alle teil des ewigen zyklus des seins sind.«
Hermann Nitsch

»my work is a celebration of life and death, a reminder of the fact that we are all part of the eternal cycle of being.«
Hermann Nitsch

During the 6 days the participants of the game can go on short or longer walks in the surroundings of the castle and prinzendorf. this may occur in particular in the morning, at noon or in the evening, when the action is not too dense. the o.m. theatre (prinzendorf castle) is the nucleus of the creative event, around which everything else takes place. again and again, one returns to the basic play sequence.
the castle should be akin to a site where the grail is worshipped.
Hermann Nitsch. Das orgien mysterien theather. Das 6 tage spiel, freibrot- sonderreihe, band 6, 1998