The legendary Background Boys.
Between concept art and Jackass. Between excessive desire for action and Street art. place is occupied and traces to remain. , The international group of artists of the legendary Background Boys which can be arranged only heavily consists today of two Swiss, two Austrians and an Austrian of Swiss or turned around. Philippe Glatz, Patrik Muchenberger, Johannes Weber, Matthias picture stone and Jens Gander.
In youth centres and on Hip Hop Jams met at that time still juvenile first time. In common search for fun and Action was together sprayed, painted, photographed and rehearsed in juvenile manners courage. Similarly as with jazz musicians one met with open sessions, in order to jamen. In different constellations over the years one worked again and again together. Hannes with Jens, Jens with Matthias, Matthias with Phil, Phil with Muchä, Muchä with Hannes, Hannes with Jens and Matthias’s etc.
In the recent past then the core of the group created the label Background Boys. The naming is to be led back on a session into Vienna: The weather was cold, to painting in the free one was not to be thought. Thus they snatched themselves cardboard and began to stick together a work and paint. The saying: „Is nevertheless only the Background “was from the beginning constant companion. „If we do not get ahead or if becomes somewhat over old, the saying takes immediately the ill-will from the area. Without this Lockerheit, which we do not need, if we work together, would be such trashigen pictures at all possible. “
Less the finished picture - more the process of developing interested it. The sessions developed and it developed whole series of large sized pictures and things. Gradually they began to go with their works to the public. 2006 showed it in one „single exhibition “in Feldkirch for the first time a large part of the developed work.
Beside exhibitions in Austria and Switzerland one of the recent appearances was with the art fair kind Bodensee in Dornbirn. Between the usual bunks of the galleries they referred a larger wall, on which them over 200 kleinformatige canvases to a large rectangle of assemblies. During the whole fair duration painted and over-old it this again and again. If someone individual canvas to buy wanted extracted it these. Thus the large sized picture disintegrated in the course of the process. At the end of the fair then the traces of the action were to be only seen.