For more than two decades, world-famous status symbols have been happily gathering in Heiner Meyer's paintings and sculptures: expensive sports cars, icons of furniture design, luxury products from Hermès, Prada, Gucci, and Chanel, breathtakingly beautiful film stars such as Claudia Cardinale, Audrey Hepburn, and Liz Taylor, and sexy women in lingerie and high heels... Highly coveted objects populate his canvases or are cast in precious metal. Colorful and bright, shimmering in gold and silver, his glamorous paintings take aim at our dependence on beautiful illusions in a world of appearances often defined by money and prestigious objects. However, he never does so with a critical finger-wagging, but rather with a loving wink and ironic allusions.
After all, isn't it human nature to dream of such a life of luxury or to remember the carefree days of childhood with Disney's immortal characters? In addition, his paintings are characterized by the perfection of his old-master-like fine painting style or clever allusions to great masters of art history such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, or Gerhard Richter. Meyer is a virtuoso with brush and canvas and an imaginative juggler who creates a wonderful new world from the Lego box of art, film, and consumer history. Heiner Meyer, from Bielefeld, is represented in over 100 public collections and has been honored worldwide with more than 250 exhibitions.
- Dr. Dorothee Achenbach