Matthias Meyer |
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| Danese is pleased to announce the first exhibition in the
United States of work by the German artist Matthias Meyer. The exhibition
includes recent paintings and works on paper. An opening reception for the
artist will be held on Thursday, April 26 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. While Meyer observes and records elements of the natural world, abstraction plays a profound role in his work. His paintings draw the viewer into a world of water imagery – lakes, ponds, fens, coral reefs. Both mysterious and revealing, the water’s surface reflects its surroundings and simultaneously offers a glimpse into a realm below. Enigmatic, distorted images of decomposing tree trunks emerge from the depths, while reeds, water lilies and grasses thrive above. These organic forms converge to form a dynamic ecosystem, nature’s cycle of life, death and regeneration. Meyer’s approach is not to literally depict these elements; rather, he transforms them, interweaving images into rich, magical, dreamlike environments filled with the perception of water, light and color. Meyer’s painting technique itself uses the properties of water. Allowing diluted oil paint to run and flow across the canvas, he invests the medium with the transparency and ephemeral quality of watercolor. He employs a wet-on-wet technique, blurring the outlines so that we can no longer distinguish the boundaries between ostensible reality and mirror image….The flowing and shimmering surface of the water he explores in his work is like a metaphor for the process of painting.1 Matthias Meyer was born in Göttingen, Germany in 1969. He studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Gerhard Richter and was named "student of honor" (Meisterschüler) in Richter’s last master class in 1994. Meyer was also a guest student in 1994 at London’s Chelsea College of Art, and in the same year received the distinguished Max Ernst Award of the City of Brühl. In 1995, he was the German laureate of the European Art Competition of the Schweizer Bankverein in London. Matthias Meyer currently lives in Mülheim an der Ruhr and works in Neuss, Germany. |
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1 Ermacora, Dr. Beate. Mathias Meyer. Munich: Galerie Andreas
Binder, 2006.
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