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“Markus Maier's paintings cannot be deciphered from a distance. You have to approach them. Then it becomes clear that the works are unique. They are an expression of our time because they have nothing other than themselves as their content and are prime examples of work committed to concrete art.”
(Burkhard Leismann, Director of the Ahlen Art Museum)
Markus Maier (born 1964 in Aalen) designs his pictures from the back. He pushes the specially composed color substance through the woven picture surface. It emerges filtered on the side of the picture, inverted for the artist and always surprising in the concrete view, even if Markus Maier intends the picture through the amount of color and pressure.
In this way, he demands a co-design from the material, which he can influence but ultimately cannot fully control in the realization. During the months-long drying process, in which the picture changes in nuances, he allows the paint to have a concrete, uninfluenced influence.
This design technique results in textile-like reliefs with soft contours and floral surfaces. The paintings have the mysterious momentary quality of a suddenly fixed movement.
Markus Maier studied architecture at the FH Heidelberg. He has won several prizes for his “reciprocal painting”.
