" What remains when we leave everything behind?
Certainties, routines, the comfort of a structured life – all these give us a sense of control. But isn’t it precisely this control that paralyzes us? We’ve grown accustomed to living our lives along fixed paths, without ever questioning where these paths actually lead. Who are we truly, when we let everything go?
For me, the radical break from the seemingly “secure” was not a leap into uncertainty but a liberation. By dedicating myself to art, I began to reshape not only the world around me but also myself. My works are not answers – they are questions. Questions that provoke. Questions that reflect. Questions you must ask yourself.
In my ceramic pieces, you encounter clay in its most primal form. It is wild, malleable, alive. What emerges is not a product but a process – an organic structure that seduces your eyes and makes your hands yearn to touch it. What do you see? A figure, an emotion, a hint? No idea? Perhaps you see yourself in it, or something you’ve long forgotten. Black on the outside, gold on the inside!
The steel I work with tells a different story. It is hard, unyielding, a material that resists – like the world we live in. Yet within its edges and curves lies movement, lightness, an unexpected softness, and even vulnerability. Isn’t this a reflection of our existence? Hard on the outside, fragile within.
And then there’s digital art – a medium often dismissed as cold and soulless. But I use it to prove the opposite. With every stroke on the screen, something emerges that dissolves the boundaries between human and machine, tradition and modernity, reality and illusion. It is a play with time, an attempt to make the intangible tangible.
Acrylic and oil painting, for me, is like a conversation with time. Acrylic – fast, impatient, pulsating – demands decisions in the moment. Oil, on the other hand, requires patience, devotion, and a willingness to think in layers. Both techniques are a play of opposites, like light and shadow, order and chaos, harmony and rupture. My canvases tell stories that often lack heroes but ask questions. Every stroke of the squeegee is both conflict and reconciliation. The colors – sometimes wild and turbulent, sometimes quiet and introspective – are like emotions we often dare not express.
My art is not a commodity. It challenges you. It asks why you do what you do. It questions your truths and invites you to think anew. Why do we follow the same patterns that repeatedly destroy us? Why do we accept the obvious without questioning it?
Perhaps you’ll lose yourself in my works. Perhaps you won’t understand them. Perhaps you’ll feel anger; perhaps you’ll cry. But one thing I promise you: you won’t remain indifferent.
In the end, it’s not my art that speaks. It’s you.
SMFA -
Sebastian (Maximilian Florian) Anzinger,
is an abstract artist from Germany and was born in Munich in 1988.
Early on, Sebastian decided he would rather pursue a music career than spend time reading textbooks. So already at a young age, he played his DJ-sets in national and international various clubs. As a result, solo projects and productions emerged, which he released on his own music label. He has already been allowed to present his music in exhibitions related to art and dance as well.
After his trip around the world in 2012, his view and attitude to life and eventually towards himself changed. SMFA found immersion in art and expressive painting in 2018. Through experiences all over the world, in life with other cultures and the diversity of life anyway, he was able to provide his art with a clear direction.
His gripping, long-awaited exhibition 'Blickdicht im Notre Dame', where digital works were exhibited in addition to oil paintings in medium and large format, took place in Eichstätt in 2022.