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Matthias Meyer

Spring

April 27 – June 9, 2018

Matthias Meyer, Tuckahoe River, 2017

Matthias Meyer

Tuckahoe River, 2017

oil on canvas

47.25 x 70.75 in. (120x180 cm)

Matthias Meyer, Baikal 2, 201

Matthias Meyer

Baikal 2, 201

oil on canvas

43.25 x 55 in. (110x140 cm)

Matthias Meyer, Metro Park 2, 2017

Matthias Meyer

Metro Park 2, 2017

oil on canvas

51 x 78.75 in. (130x200 cm)

Matthias Meyer, Nagoya, 2018

Matthias Meyer

Nagoya, 2018

oil on canvas

59 x 63 in. (150x160 cm)

Matthias Meyer, Namur, 2016

Matthias Meyer

Namur, 2016

oil on canvas

47.25 x 70.75 in. (120x180 cm)

Matthias Meyer, grünes Wasser, 2015

Matthias Meyer

grünes Wasser, 2015

oil on canvas

82.5 x 78.75 in. (210 x 200 cm)

Matthias Meyer, Water Painting, 2017

Matthias Meyer

Water Painting, 2017

oil on canvas

59 x 63 in. (150x160 cm)

Matthias Meyer, Hastings, 2017

Matthias Meyer

Hastings, 2017

oil on canvas

78.75 x 74.75 in. (200 x 190 cm)

Matthias Meyer, Okazaki, 2015

Matthias Meyer

Okazaki, 2015

oil on canvas

39.5 x 78.75 in. (100 x 200 cm)

Danese/Corey is pleased to announce the opening of Spring, an exhibition of new paintings by Matthias Meyer. 

While the natural world plays a profound role in Meyer’s work, he achieves in its depiction a synthesis between the representational and the abstract. Both mysterious and revealing, the water’s surface reflects its surroundings while simultaneously drawing the viewer’s attention into the depths beneath. Organic forms converge to form a dynamic ecosystem, nature’s cycle of life, death, and regeneration. Meyer’s objective is to transform these elements, dissolving the imagery into layers of light and color. 

Meyer’s painting method emulates the properties of water itself; diluted oil paint runs and falls across the canvas, investing the medium with the transparency and ephemeral qualities of watercolor. His paintings show us a world that is more fluid, even rippling, as if on some magical screen or the surface of an undulating pool. There is a pervasive sense of peacefulness and at the same time, an inexplicable unrest, as if in a strange dream. (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, Meyer was the German laureate of the European Art Competition of the Schweizer Bankverein in London. 

In 2017, a solo exhibition of his paintings was held at the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr.  Matthias Meyer lives and works in Germany.

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(1) Spanke, Daniel. “Capturing the Flow,” in Matthias Meyer: Vol. 2. Munich: Galerie Andreas Binder, 2006.