Holzinger's provocative approach to performance challenges societal norms around the naked body, redefining it as a weapon, tool, and even as humor within art.
After years of being obsessed with making imagery, I had reached a dead end, he says. So, during the winter solstice of 1993, Broms took all of his photographs and paintings to the waterfront in Brooklyn's Williamsburg where he lived, symbolically shaving his head before setting his life's work on fire. I realised that this action was much stronger than any of the work that went up in flames, he says.
David's work always contained some combination of grace, the grotesque, strength and tenderness, reflecting his authentic voice and experiences throughout his artistic journey.
"I was writing a lot during the time she was sick, not intending to make anything, but it was just my way of processing the unknown."