Bad Painting number 89 - 71 migrants suffocated.

In August 2015, 71 migrants suffocated in a sealed lorry and were found decomposing near an Austrian village. An Afghan identified as the gang leader got 25 years.

Since 2013, Jay Rechsteinier has been working on a specific painting series titled Bad Painting. Working on Bad Painting is what painting is all about to him: an exploration of a theme, a subject, and the general development of painting as a process and a medium. It is not only painterly but also political which is very important to Rechsteiner. Art has to be political to him (although everything is political to a certain degree).