The Master Game

At the Vienna Art Academy in 1994 an unidentified person painted over 27 works by Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer Rainer had become worldfamous for his abstract art and in particular for his overlayering of photographs and overpainting of his own and other artists works But who painted over the overpainter Speculation rages Did he attack his works himself A year later an unsigned letter surfaces claiming responsibility for the act directed against Rainer and modern art in general and accusing the artist of being complicit with destructive modernism At the same time Austria is shaken by a series of mail bombs by the Bajuwarian Liberation Army in response to the supposed threat to Austrias German identity Are there connections between the overpainting event and the mail bombs Or is this all just a game A dream Or perhaps a hallucination