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POSSIBILITY OF PERCEPTION
The double exhibition POP - Possibility of Perception, to which the Galerie
Nusser & Baumgart cordially invites you, will be presenting works by the New
York based artist Ati Maier (born in 1962 in Munich) and Joe Amrhein (born
in 1953 in Sacramento, California). These two artists offer widely diverging
perspectives from the currently so vibrant field of contemporary painting:
on the one hand, Ati Maier's utterly exuberant, colourintensive and moving
pictorial language; and, on the other hand, Joe Amrhein's precisely poised
and intellectually ironical linguistic pictures.
Ati Maier grew up in Munich. Here she came under the influence of Franz Marc
and August Macke's colour schemes, before she moved to the United States and
grew acquainted with the endless vistas of the American West. In her
multi-perspective fantasy landscapes she ignites a veritable firework of
virtuoso pictorial inventions and discoveries. In her complex, often many
layered works she uses the endless varieties of information available today
and adopts illustrations from various sources-from geography, geology,
physics, or from comics and space research-which she then takes as a point
of departure for her combinatorial microcosmic and macrocosmic landscapes.
The viewer is cast upon a journey through space and time, reminiscent of a
science fiction adventure. The association is underscored through 3-D
animation, which Ati Maier has been developing for some time parallel to her
two-dimensional works. Much as in a computer game, the viewer can delve into
and even move around within the invented worlds Maier has created out of
images from her previous works or from entirely independent works. This of
course piques the discoverer's desire to embark on an expedition, and the
exhibition visitors are encouraged to join the pictorial pioneer Ati Maier
on a voyage to ever new sights.
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POP
Airbrush, Ink on Paper — 41 x 80 cm — 2011
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Way out
Airbrush, Woodstain on Paper — 58,5 x 58,5
cm — 2011
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Windmills
Airbrush, Ink, Woodstain on Paper — 60,5 x
60,5 cm — 2011
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Deep Time
ink, woodstain on paper — 19 x 19 cm — 2010
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Deja Vu
airbrush, ink, woodstain on paper — 19 x 19
cm — 2010
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