Heiner Meyer's paintings are characterized by consistency and undogmatism, as well as by the principles of Sull'Arte, a discipline whose main theme is art itself. In his works, he superimposes quotations and adaptations from a wide variety of sources, thus demonstrating the simultaneity of inequalities. Sculptures from the classical Greek period, portraits of film stars from the 1950s, Mickey Mouse and other comic characters, butterflies, cubes... are recurring elements in Meyer's diverse images, which are quoted in new constellations and confrontations. This subjective iconography is reassembled from one image to the next; there is no connecting or even binding scheme. Meyer's art is always a new creation—it never repeats itself—his visual vocabulary diminishes and conjugates differently in each work. The artist never succumbs to the suggestion of his role models, i.e., the images that preceded the current one, be they the stars of ancient mythology or the stars of Hollywood, who are quoted from a relativizing distance. Their aura is transformed, not revered! From this distance to his subject, Meyer gains the absolute freedom of his images, in which the sublime appears alongside the trivial, the past alongside the present, the realistic alongside the abstract, the elitist alongside the popular.
The Gerhardt Braun Gallery will open its doors on Friday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m. at Calle Claudio Coello 72, 28001 Madrid.
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