For his illustrated book “Hurzlmeiermalerei” published by Antje-Kunstmann-Verlag, the painter and cartoonist Rudi Hurzlmeier divided his works into categories he had thought up himself. One of them is escapism. In his painting, this denotes "the exit from defined conditions into pathless terrain". If the painting does not want to succeed, compositionally almost screwed up, exactly when its creator would like to destroy it, he leaves the brushwork entirely to the "staggering inspiration", writes Hurzlmeier: "If you give yourself up, kissing muses whisper from Arcadian muses Idylls and traumatic turbulence. "

The worlds that are currently on view in the Caricatura Museum are created: girls running over water, people riding birds, cyclists on the sea floor, saddled cows, pensive pigs and reading dogs, sleepwalkers, mermaids and floating locomotives. With his painting he opens up fantastic unreasonable spaces that can only be used by art, says Hurzlmeier.

His opulent paintings tell nothing about Corona, they offer a refuge from the pandemic in bizarre, terrifying and fascinating dream worlds.

As only art, literature, theater and music can do it in general.

As an enriching counter-world to reality, they are nourishment for the soul.

Let's just hope that the museums, theaters and art associations won't close again now.

That would be unbearable.