Color aquatint etching;
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left: 12/99; Signed, dated and titled in the plate upper left;
Sheet size: 27.56 x 31.69 in / Plate size: 19.49 x 23.62 in inch
Characteristic of the work is Aigner’s masterful command of translating painterly qualities into graphic form, through which he develops a clearly structured, contour-based visual language. Reality and staging intertwine, resulting in a concentrated reflection on the artist’s own role and the act of seeing itself. The title “Am I My Own Grandfather” underscores this playfully paradoxical self-questioning, in which identity, ancestry, and temporal relations are ironically shifted and the question of one’s own origin is pushed into the realm of the absurd.
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