And i explain it to myself as a type of wish than to see for change and also one of personal change this often this has only an awful mess. Siegler is one of more than a 100 artists whose work documents the years are painful the collapse of the g. D. R. The full of the wall and reunification a few of the paintings do express euphoria but more commonly loss and even pain. As well. As a kind of amputation not from the but from friends colleagues from your life the life in the west was totally different so we came from the warm nest of state support into the free market soon after the fall of the war i went to frankfurt and that was like jumping into very cold water indeed. The exhibitions curator says that even today east german artists works a solved value and their own role in the peaceful revolution is both politically and artistically undervalued as a scan fish is important to remember and this was largely forgotten after 989. 00 that in the eightys it was a visual artist who made Cr