In Lana Del Ray Singing Mazzy Star (2025), Spichtig distills the essence of live performance into a spectral image: the singer is rendered with elongated limbs and a mask-like face, caught between apparition and icon. The painting exemplifies his signature approach, flattened figures, drained of depth, yet charged with a strange stillness that hovers between glamour and morbidity. Here, the concert becomes an eternal moment, “always as good as the best moments of a concert, always in a state of pre-breaking point,” as the artist himself describes painting.

Spichtig’s work transforms familiar figures and cultural icons into ghostly presences, questioning the nature of representation and the fragile boundary between individuality and collective memory. Whether through portraits, sculptural assemblages, or domestic installations of everyday objects, his practice confronts the uncanny space where beauty, artifice, and disappearance meet.