(St. Urban 1923–2021 Vienna)
“Mein Malen ist 1 Lebens=Vollzug”, signed HStaudacher to the upper margin, dedication: von mir (3lichst and a. o. with “Mein Malen ist 1 Lebens=Vollzug” and to the lower margin with “Im Feber 1994 in der Davidgasse” as well as signed and dated HStaudacher 94 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm, framed

‘my painting is handwriting, colour, dance, play, sign, idea, coincidence, speech, word, movement, speed, abundance. it is incommunicable, incomprehensible to many, it is exuberance - and that is because it has power, it gives too much, so much that it often destroys itself. one can explain what precedes this if one remembers that as an artist one does not allow the relativity of all expressions - general as well as individual - to exist beyond one's experience. so much has been destroyed by the chatter of the last decades, because the inner voice and gaze no longer perceived anything. against this i want to begin an ever new painting and poetry. it is a poetics of physical values and words - and its mimes, movements, plays, theatre, songs and speeds alone. it retains its pulsating place in our time, its place without essential dimensions, its inner freedom, which understands that it is useless to speak, to tell or to describe, and that is why i, as a painter-poet, will put everything on canvas, iron, wood, paper - on skins, leather, stones - on fabric and air. i will unite my screams with you like-minded creative skunks - mutually inspired into a silent power. painting and poetry will then no longer tell, they will act!’
Hans Staudacher