Nr 11 2020

Armin Andreas Pangerl made Nr 11 with what looks like colored pencils on paper. The approach to mark-making is chaotic, energetic, with lots of scribbles, and a seemingly unorganized outpouring. But, hey, that's artmaking, right? Process over product. The material aspects are cool. You have this chaotic energy held in place by the crisp edges of the page. Look at the bottom left - that sunburst of radiating lines, colliding with the blocky text like some sort of hieroglyph. It is like Pangerl’s showing us a piece of his mind. The colors are what get me. They’re not blended, they’re just there, next to each other, vibrating like a badly tuned radio. It reminds me a bit of Alfred Jarry, just throwing whatever comes into their head out there and calling it art. We should embrace ambiguity, find our own meanings in the chaos.