Manfred Zoller is an artist, painter, collage maker, sculptor - and originally a doctor. He also worked as a specialist in anatomy for several years. Later, he was a master student of Gerhard Kettner at the HfBK Dresden, where he headed the anatomy department, then taught morphology/anatomy at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, held various guest professorships and wrote a fundamental book on the subject of anatomy. Knowing all this, a look at his artistic work thwarts all expectations. At first glance, there is nothing representational, almost nothing is an image of something living. Zoller understands artistic anatomy as a subject that can be taught academically, but also as an open system, as a starting point and creative task. In his paintings, collages and assemblages, colour, composition and form emerge from the field of tension between scientific seriousness and free play. When the viewer tries to read something, the game begins anew. Zoller's arrangements of colour and form give rise to wide-ranging associative spaces, transformed reality, pictorial poetry.
