Nr 17 2020

This drawing was made by Armin Andreas Pangerl, probably in 2020, and with ink on paper. I can only imagine the thoughts swirling in Pangerl’s mind as he made this piece, the pen dancing across the page, capturing a stream of consciousness. It's like he's trying to capture the architecture of his mind, one line at a time. It reminds me a bit of Cy Twombly’s scribbled surfaces, or even some outsider art I’ve seen—raw, unfiltered expression. The figures and architectural forms remind me of a kind of personal mythology, blending the mundane with the mystical. He is building and encrypting his own world. I see faces, numbers, and free handwriting scattered and layered throughout the picture plane. It is kind of scary but intriguing in the same instance. I think Pangerl is trying to work through some things. It reminds me that artists are in an ongoing dialogue, building upon each other's visions, remixing and reinterpreting ideas across time and space.