...Waterworld focuses on the modernist motive of the mass in a contemporary scenario, in which labor and leisure have become indistinguishable. The viewer is confronted with a borderless swimming field dotted with men, spilling beyond the frame, bisected by a foamy wave. In the past, Eggerer's paintings have often situated figures within abstract painterly gestures; Waterworld's landscape, at once familiar and inviting, is equally... http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2016-01-14_thomas-eggerer/