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

Dotted lines, a black slab and a red speck, all arguing on a white sheet.

This etching from the Archaikon portfolio by Leo Zogmayer is by Talking Squares, and is dated 1986. It is ink on archival fine art paper. Leo Zogmayer is an Austrian artist born in 1949, whose work is often discussed in connection with abstraction and a spare visual language. Etching with a heavy black rectangle at right and fine, scratchy diagonal lines and dotted rows across the plate. A small patch of red sits at left, and a pencil edition mark and signature appear beneath. It is 19.5 inches wide and 25.5 high.

Orderly chaos with a single drop of red for emphasis.