Siegfried Anzinger : Papier / Works on Paper. 2001 - 2004. eng.ger ed.

Anzinger's drawings are situated in a field of tension between warm and cold tones in a major and minor key. He himself likes to compare his activity with sitting at a piano, striking the keys with varying pressure, probing a single note's range of options for the next moment. In the same way, each drawing sounds a different note of artistic creation, work and translation, and sets up reverberations in our minds and lives as viewers of art.\n\nSiegfried Anzinger's work has received the Alpine Republic's highest accolade in the form of 'The State Prize of Austria 2003'. It can be regarded as both recognition for this gesturally reserved artist and the painting of the 1980s and 90s, which everybody seems to have struggled with, be it in official quarters or on the part of the artists themselves - on the one hand the institutions seemingly too powerful, and on the other the scandal of actionism too deep-seated.\nPerhaps that is why Siegfried Anzinger left his homeland twenty-two years ago and emigrated to the Rheinland, where, since 1997, he has been professor at the Academy in D?sseldorf. The focal point of his life is here, and it is here - far away from that Vienese world - that his work can flourish