Fabian Patzak's painted oeuvre addresses existential issues of geographical, psychological or emotional displacement through a combination of meticulously rendered images and an eerily objective visual vocabulary. His newest works represent a subtle move toward more subjective scenarios that are clearly engaged with a very human vantage point, and suggest narratives in which the viewer is invited to participate. At times almost voyeuristic, these pieces offer us stolen glances of architectural and interior forms that and are rendered with a quietly passionate precision. Patzak toys with chromatic variegation by alternating between small scale oil on wood panels and medium format oil on canvas works. While he continues to explore chromatically reduced neutrals, this investigation has largely been absorbed by his wooden panels, leaving the canvases at liberty to wander toward deep blues, greens and a radiant ochre that verges on salmon The combined result of Patzak's current iteration of motifs and palettes is a variegated series of dusk, dawn and midnight views that play with their own temporality, describing distinct horological "places" that alter according to their physical surroundings and site-specific lighting conditions.

- Ida Reiss

Studio view, 2011

... In this collection of work, Fabian Patzak extends and refines the concerns of his past projects through an exploration of the psychological connections attached to architectonic spaces, whether perceived through lived experience, memory, emotion, thoughts, or dreams. Similar to his Viennese predecessors Adolf Loos and Frederick Kiesler, who schematized architecture and its interiors to include the mental and tactile, Patzak dispenses with time and scientific observation to construct space and considers the phenomenological and psychic values that shape perceptions of both literal and metaphorical environments. Read more...

- Elizabeth St. George

Installtion view | Lukas Feichtner Gallery, 2011

... The atmosphere of Fabian Patzak´s reductionist, almost sober oil paintings are reminiscent of Edward Hopper or Charles Sheeler, however his grisaille palette renders them more condensed. Even before having read their titles, they portray quintessentially American interiors suggestive of classics by Hitchcock, Woody Allen, or Paul Auster´s New York Trilogy; spaces that narrate vastness and openness as well as the intensity of New York as a center of the arts - without catering to drama or kitsch. His oil-on-wood miniatures possess an even more impressive intensity: among them, Windows on Oxford Street, which resembles a linocut, subtly breaks the subject´s sobriety. Read more...

- Wolfgang Pichler, in review of the exhibition "Someplace Next Year"

Installation view | MUSA Startgalerie, 2009

The term "Vacancy" is typically found in neon writing outside motels advertising rooms for hire. The minimalist interiors in this collection stem from rooms in which the artist has temporarily dwelled. The fact that these spaces were extracted from various countries with different cultures is not discernible from Fabian Patzak's renderings. They are rooms of a repetitous world that leave space for our own expectations, fears and anticipations.

Installation view | Showroom Galerie Hrobsky, 2008

Die Ruhe vor dem Turm explores the pictorial and thematic relationship of the extremes: force and peace. Rendered finely, the works narrate potential destruction.

Installation view | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2006