Georg Fuchssteiner’s preference is for small-format drawings and watercolors on paper. At the center of his painterly exploration is the contrast between the culturally constructed human being on the one hand and unspoiled nature on the other. The resulting work is an anarchistic interplay between figuration and abstraction: here lived reality and dreams mingle. Literature, art, and music are equivalent in terms of content for him, which is why he gives his work poetic titles. In the style of an old master, Fuchssteiner continuously questions himself and discovers new artistic methods.
Fuchssteiner is a patient observer and he appreciates moments of serendipity in his work. His precise and transparent compositions, carried out in pencil, color pen, watercolor, ink with partially added collages on sometimes found materials, are full of details and evoke unique visual impressions. Shapes and colors appear to be floating in his drawings and paintings of different sizes and cover the whole surface of the paper. Forms of vegetation and figures appear occasionally in his pictorial creations. Fuchssteiners delicately drawn depictions escape an easy interpretation. Instead, figurative and abstract details share the same pictorial space in proximity and elude any apparent relation to the reality of a beholder. This way, the artist’s works create new and unique meditative images full of lightness and poetry. Read More
The artist also recycles the printed word and reuses it in the form of self-made paper which then appear as collages with a clearly visible mix up of letters. The artist uses writing as a creative tool within the work and for its reflexive potential.
