[Brookside]

"In Mental Map: Evasion V, Franz Ackermann creates a biotic abstraction, a template for natural phenomena dictated by design. His jumbled composition is harmonious in its turmoil: concentric patterns of colour expose hints of identifiable place (a street map, a building interior, a snippet of landscape) only to dislocate them in a maze of organic generalisations." 1996.

That's the blurb from the website- actually, he's better than this. Another globe-trotting German artist...what's with that trend?...who records urban sprawl and city culture from around the world. His small paintings, which this one isn't, are jewels of color and draughtsmanship.