2013 Fausto began with portraying friends as nude models, also engaging in erotic and partially explicit scenes. It started with the work “Besuch”, depicting a than “characteristic” Sunday morning sex party that would randomly unfold at any private home when guys leave parties and open the Grindr App on their way home. Hence the name of this series..

Die Taufe (Baptism), 2023, oil on canvas 71 x 63 in (180 x 160 cm)

Three models engaging in a fisting scene at the atelier. The work was carried out during four sessions with the models.

presently exhibited at the ART FORUM Düsseldorf, Germany (Sept 2025 - May 2026)

Daddy, 2023, oil on canvas, 70,9 x 63 in (180 x 160 cm)

Thomas and Justin are friends of the artist and both frequent models for his work. They haven’t met before this project though. The painting was carried out during two sessions with the models. Like all other works also this one is painted from live models, never from fotos.

Leo & Fernando, 2023, oil on canvas 39 x 39 in (100 x 100 cm)

Oil sketch within two sessions with the models. No pre drawing on the canvas.

Jordan, 2021, oil on canvas, 47,2 x 59 in (120 x 150 cm)

Jordan Firstman reached out for a portrait and visited the studio in Berlin for two modeling sessions during July 2021. To complete the work a design and model of the elaborate fabric (4 x 4 meters in size) has been developed and produced during the following months.

The painting was finished and varnished in December 2021. The fabric displays the Labyrinth and myth of Minotauros.

Private collection

Besuch (Visit), 2020, oil on canvas, 78,7 x 59 in (200 x 150 cm)

From the early 1990ies until the start of Covid 19 pandemic in 2019 the depicted scene would be a pretty “common” end of a night for gay men in Berlin. After party and before returning home, one’d easily make the acquaintance of a host - either on social media or at the street - who’d invite for sex at his home with others. Thus, the open door and the late arriving guest (Fausto’s self portrait) while the sex-party seems to be in full swing are as much part of the game as are the basic interior or the poorly lighted kitchen serving as playground.

The depicted scene was invented and staged with live models at the studio for numerous sessions throughout a year of working on it.