Etching From Archaikon Portfolio: Leo Zogmayer (Austrian B. 1949)

Black ink slashes make a forest, and somewhere inside it a figure raises its arms.

This etching from the Archaikon portfolio by Leo Zogmayer is by Two Warriors, and is dated 1986. It is ink on archival fine art paper. Leo Zogmayer is an Austrian artist born in 1949, and his work is generally associated with reduced, abstract and sign-like forms. Etching with a dense black vertical mass at left and scratchy lines of reeds across the plate. A small dark figure stands with raised arms near the top, and a larger one holds a rounded shield below. A little red appears at left. It is 19.5 inches wide and 25.5 high.

Scratchy, dramatic, and happy to leave things unexplained.