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Matthias Meyer

Silent Water

October 11 – November 9, 2019

Matthias Meyer, Eibsee

Matthias Meyer

Eibsee

2018

oil on canvas

47 x 71 inches (120x180cm)

Matthias Meyer, The Pond

Matthias Meyer

The Pond

2019

oil on canvas

83 x 78 inches (210x200cm)

 

Matthias Meyer, Palermo

Matthias Meyer

Palermo

2019

oil on canvas

39 x 78 inches (100x200cm)

Matthias Meyer, Benson Lake

Matthias Meyer

Benson Lake

2019

oil on canvas

59 x 118 inches (150x300cm)

Matthias Meyer, Kyoto

Matthias Meyer

Kyoto

2019

oil on canvas

83 x 78 inches (210x200cm)

 

Matthias Meyer, Brugge

Matthias Meyer

Brugge

2019

oil on canvas

63 x 59 inches (150x160cm)

Matthias Meyer, Clearwater

Matthias Meyer

Clearwater

2019

oil on canvas

43 x 39 inches (110x100cm)

Matthias Meyer, Weichsel

Matthias Meyer

Weichsel

2019

oil on canvas

59 x 63 inches (150x160cm)

Matthias Meyer, Imado

Matthias Meyer

Imado

2016

oil on canvas

55 x 110 inches (140x280cm)

Matthias Meyer, Ueno

Matthias Meyer

Ueno

2016

oil on canvas

59 x 63 inches (150x160cm0

Matthias Meyer, Sonoma

Matthias Meyer

Sonoma

2016

oil on canvas

59 x 63 inches (150x160cm)

Matthias Meyer, Insomnia

Matthias Meyer

Insomnia

2014

oil on canvas

59 x 118 inches (150x300cm)

Matthias Meyer, Amaryllis

Matthias Meyer

Amaryllis

2016

oil on canvas

59 x 63 inches (150x160cm)

Matthias Meyer, Reservoir 2

Matthias Meyer

Reservoir 2

2018

oil on canvas

47 x 71 inches (120cmx180cm)

Danese/Corey is pleased to announce the opening of Silent Water, an exhibition of 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, evenrippling, 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 2018, an exhibition of Meyer’s paintings was held at the Rosenhang Museum, Weilburg, and in 2017, the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr also presented an exhibition of his work. Matthias Meyer lives and works in Germany.

A fully illustrated catalogue is available.

For further information please contact the gallery at 212-223-2227 or contact@danese.com

@DaneseCorey

 

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