Schimansky’s drawings, on the smallest paper format, always from edge to edge or with the image field compositionally extremely tense, are a recent achievement in his oeuvre. It shares with the large formats of his early and middle ink works the idea of the image as a whole; an image field that must be occupied and conquered by drawing with ink or pencil. His drawing has developed into a freedom of the linear, progressing into the serial or decorative, into pattern or hatching, into structure or repetition. There are no variations on what is seen, no depiction of landscape. Yet the transposition of the seen into the designed is repeatedly perceptible, even when the line seeks its own course, moves forward, becomes more or less still, and finally ends on the page.

Curator: Andrea Hofmann