Séance
How whirled together in a colorful kaleidoscope, figure scenes appeared in this painting of Peter Stauss; heads and animals are composed with color patches and gestural games. Animals and humans seem in this confusion as equal actors on the stage of a disastrous spectacle to occur. The animals behave like their human models here: they are scrolling through books, wearing emblems and folk costumes.
The humorous alignment between animals and humans reversed however into its opposite. Costumes and decorations are exposed as hollow, hypocritical symbols of the superiority of man over other living beings, because they are in their coding as a status symbol comparable to species-and gender-specific behavior and gestures in the animal world.
The postulated superiority of man over nature is offset by the reversal of values and called into question. The representation of Stauss seems but also to have a social mechanism, in which power and oppression are closely related. Perhaps it also indicates the group of Indians from the right, in a kind of séance ponder the fate of the people in this world threatened destruction.
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