Simon Wachsmuth: Aporia/Europa

In his series Fehlstellen, Simon Wachsmuth (born 1964) replicates the missing and destroyed parts of Piero della Francesca’s Legend of the True Cross fresco cycle. Using black paint, he thereby creates a fictitious cartography from these holes in visual information to which he adds current newspaper cuttings on Turkey’s accession to the European Union and old photographs of Istanbul.