Hans Bruechle likes painting things that move. The Perth-based street artist who works under the alias Handbrake got his start painting skateboards. In 2018 his exhibition Chaos Controlled featured a painted motorbike.
For his 2021 exhibition Chaos Rising, the centrepiece was a Handbrake-d helicopter. And so for his upcoming exhibition Chaos Concludes, the third and final in his chaotic series of art events, Bruechle knew he would need something big, movable and impressive. He settled on a wall.
A wall that moves. “The tough one for me was like ‘how do you beat the helicopter?’” Bruechle says. “Everyone expects me to do another vehicle, but it’s not a vehicle.
It’s departing a little bit from that idea.” “It’s a collaborative installation that I’m working on with VFX artist, Jhan Fung from Sydney who is an amazing animator and VFX artist, and a music producer Devante who’s from Perth. It’s basically a three-way collaboration driven by me, where I’m building a wall in the middle of the venue, painting a big mural on it and then we’re projecting VFX on to it to bring it to life.
And it’s all set to a custom composed piece of music.” It’s big, bold and outside the box, but by now that’s exactly what we expect from Bruechle, who is known for doing things just a little bit differently. Bruechle never trained formally as an artist, but started painting skateboards as a hobby.
He was asked to submit a few for an exhibition and when they sold out.