Consisting of 11,500 identically sized pieces of coloured glass, arranged at random by computer, it triggered a protest from the archbishop of the cathedral Cardinal Joachim Meisner (b. 1933), who favoured a more appropriate figurative depiction of 20th - century Catholic martyrs. (visual-arts-cork.com)
The five new works by Florian Pumhösl are studies showing configurations of grids and circles, deriving from figurative depictions on Byzantine coins on which one can read a slow dissolution of the depicted portrait, bust or figure. (galeriebuchholz.de)
(2016), step away from figurative depiction altogether, whereas others, like The Funny Pleasures of War (2015 - 16), bring in fragments of the human body or iconographic symbols like the skull. (richardgraygallery.com)