SILVESTRo
GEIEr 

About the form of a moment and the colors of smell

A snapshot - as the word itself implies - is the capturing of a moment. A brief instant that fades as quickly as it arrives. Yet, for these moments to occur, there needs to be a prior entanglement of events, of prerequisites, of moments packed with emotions. Moments have a backstory. However inconspicuous they may seem, they always have a reason to exist. And moments require no explanations. They tell stories on their own, intertwining with the viewer's memories and sometimes reviving feelings and even scents from the past.

"It lies with the viewer. It's their image. What I've painted is my image. What the viewer sees in it is their image," says the young artist Philip Geier, hailing from Neumarkt, who signs his paintings with the pseudonym Silvestro, about his balancing act between the "told" and the "unspoken."