Burgi Mai

Burgi Mai is an exceedingly talented artist, living in a small town in Lower Carinthia.
She depicts life in an often exaggerated realism, sometimes, nay, often, actually, almost always, 
tinged with the poetry of Irony, Satire.

Each of Burgi's pictures carries a message.

I must ask her what the beer drinking young man

with the strange T shirt, sitting on a suit case really means.

The meticulous, detailed manner of her painting style 

brings a realism

quite unlike other realistic painters and totally Burgi's own.

Hermann Nitsch, a most controversial Austrian Painter

 is probably best known

fort throwing blood onto a canvass, claiming it as a work of art.

Burgi, in her untitled painting, shows the unmistakable Nitsch

with a butcher knife in one hand and a painter's brush in the other.

The irony of the painting entitled:

Germany's Next Topmodel

is quite clear.

Please, Burgi, talk to me.

In the background a little church on a hill.

In the foreground the last three letters of the 

newly erected factory called Rohrbach.

The German exclamation "Ach" means a regrettable "Oh my".

Burgi clearly expresses her dismay, because this factory

has no place in these bucolic surroundings.