Ekkehard Tischendorf steps in front of paper and canvas and lets happen. Inquiring and questioning, with his eyes fixed on color and form, he opens up a painterly field of possibilities that leaves much in abeyance. The artist has a rich stock of images at his disposal, so that he then, in the working process, loses himself in painting, allows himself to be guided by the emerging compositions in repeating, reshaping, transforming and reinventing, and in the act of direct, intuitively guided doing, invents dense as well as delicate-looking pictorial worlds. The intended often steers into the unknown, chance takes the lead. This creates an open and at the same time condensed surface that draws its tension precisely from the ambiguity of its motifs.

Günther Oberhollenzer