Hans Schabus makes a habit of taking things apart (a mobile home, boats, his own Venice Biennale installation). For his first solo show at Simon Preston, the Austrian artist has deconstructed the famous shoot-out scene from 1969 film The Wild Bunch, re-creating it shot for shot in and around his studio in Vienna. The serene, mostly de-populated streets and vacant stairways are entirely incongruous with the video’s quick cuts and high-octane soundtrack of shouting, singing and gunshots.
