We also show the two-part work Outliners which surely belongs to the most impressive and individual works of Gaida. The two guys (absolutely identical figures, which are only positioned differently in the room) are captivating because of their arrangement in the room and their naturalism. They inevitably enter into a strong connection with the surrounding space and the other objects or images in the space. The work created by the artist seems to be surprisingly autonomous and in turn to create a drawing in space out of itself, with which the pair of figures structure the entire exhibition space.

In a catalogue text, Dr. Ari Hartog rightly points out that Gaida basically treats his sculptures like a painter treats the canvas image or a photographic artist treats the photographic image by radically cutting the motif and fragmenting and altering the human torso in such a way that it only serves as a starting material for creating a completely autonomous object that is subject to its own rules or only to the artist’s creative will.

This approach can certainly be compared to the way Robert Bosisio works, whose works are also often based on photographs, but almost completely emancipate themselves from them and, in the course of the painting process, increasingly recede into the background in order to give space to the painting surface, the structure and the tremendously subtle coloration. Bosisio develops his paintings over a very long period of time by constantly applying new layers of paint (up to 20 layers), scraping off or washing off parts, and interweaving materials such as pure pigment, sand, ash, and a wide variety of color materials. A belly button can also become a motif that fills the image. Common to all pictures is the oscillation between the objective motif and the disappearance of the motif in favor of the surface structure and the color sound in the picture.