Central to Thomas Eggerer’s latest show at Capitain Petzel, ‘Galeria’, is a monumental new painting depicting the interior of a large gym in which figures stretch, jog, box and lift weights. The characters in Fitness (2024) are dispersed across the flat, wide-angled scene in such a way as to give compositional punctuation; limbs, extended at diagonals, direct the eye around the picture plane. Two joggers near the base of the work exercise together; the rest attend to their regimes alone. The viewer observes from above, at a vantage point higher than the neon strip lights that hang from the ceiling. The stillness of the scene contrasts starkly with the muscular activities on display.
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