“Fuchssteiner's pictorial structure is close to nature: nature not as a mimetic model – but nature as an example. In its manifestations, nature conceals the ontological principle of its self-organisation. Fuchssteiner's watercolours look as if they had invented themselves or emerged as aesthetic beings of autonomous production, pictorial partnerships without the assertive will of a boastful artist. (...) Fuchssteiner's paintings shimmer. Their beauty dances. A beauty that is meant to be seen, not read. The many as an undivided whole requires the contemplative gaze of an absent-minded discretion. The many as an amalgam of details needs vision, a certain sharpness that perceives the formal and narrative network of relationships„

in “Speech painted over„ by F.G. Scheuer Full version online

Jahn und Jahn is delighted to present “artificial ghosts„ the first solo exhibition of Georg Fuchssteiner in Portugal, featuring a selection of his recent watercolors and paintings. Fuchssteiner is known for his blurring pictorial structures that reconcile elements from painting and drawing. He employs color shades that seem to whisper, while his forms and textures oscillate between appearance and disappearance. Fuchssteiner succeeds in shaping artistic equivalents of silent and speechless entities, generating specific aesthetic beings of their own intimate nature and original simplicity. With delicate force, the artist develops a finely differentiated chromatic variety of a highly contemplative and sensual character. The organizing principles of natural manifestations and of human existence are reflected in Fuchssteiner’s works. However, the artist does not seem particularly interested in depicting the world but, rather, in evoking the viewer’s inner capacity to detach from reality and awaken individual receptiveness to a different gaze.

Georg Fuchssteiner (b. 1982 in Straubing, Germany), lives and works in Bogen. Apprenticed as industrial mechanic (1999-2003), he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (AdBK 2003-2011). Awards: 2005 Culture Prize of the City of Straubing, 2007 Fanny Carlita scholarship, 2008 Jubilee scholarship on the occasion of the 200th Anniversary of AdBK Munich, 2011 Senator Bernhard Borst Prize, 2018 Art Award of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Selected exhibitions: 2020 Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (Munich), 2020 Jahn und Jahn (Munich), 2018 Galerie Sandra Bürgel (Berlin), 2016 Kunstarkaden München (Munich). 2015 Städtische Galerie Cordonhaus (Cham). 2015 Neuer Kunstverein (Regensburg), 2015 Schönewald Fine Arts (Düsseldorf), 2014 Galerie Jahn (Munich), 2012 Galerie Knust + Kunz (Munich), 2011 Lothringer 13 (Munich).