Camille Obering Fine Art is delighted to present Ati Maier's "SpaceRider" Cycle at Guesthouse; 4 short films and 1 short documentary. Ati Maier’s SpaceRider speaks to humanity's insatiable desire to pioneer and explore. The significance of SpaceRider lies in the social discourse, which the films engender. Simply put: the films deal with everything from metaphysics to community to cultural identity to memory and its effect on our perception of time. These ideas have particular relevance as we find ourselves on the cusp of private space exploration exploding in the near future. The SpaceRider allows us to examine our exploration of planet Earth, our history, discoveries made, colonization, man's accomplishments and failures, and the natural world from which we sustain ourselves. The films are set in Wyoming, New York City, North Dakota, and Berlin. Maier wrote, directed and performed in all films as the SpaceRider.

Premier of the “HOLE”2021
Documentary of the Solar Eclipse and the SpaceRider Performance at the Rodeo Grounds innJackson Hole in 2017.
Directed and performed by Ati Maier
DOP Timo Seidel
Edit Timo Seidel
Composer Benyaro

https://vimeo.com/504409010 with password: GoldiLock33

VIEW THE FILMS HERE, all with password: GoldiLock33

SpaceRider 1 - The Map Is Not The Territory https://vimeo.com/371421009


SpaceRider 2 - The Placeless Place https://vimeo.com/371422288


SpaceRider 3 - Prophecy Of The Encounter https://vimeo.com/371419280


SpaceRider 4 - The Nearest Faraway Place https://vimeo.com/382776728


All Film Stills are available as Prints in a Edition of 3 in size 20 x 30 inches
at Camille Obering Fine Arts.

THE SPACERIDER CYCLE 2020 CATALOGUE, PUBLISHED BY THE STAEDTISCHE GALLERY WOLFSBURG ESSAYS BY SUSANNE PFLEGER, ATI MAIER, GREGORY VOLK, BRIAN CHIDESTER, MATTHEW DAY JACKSON INTERVIEWS WITH MARVIN GOINGS AND CHARLY NEWHOLY FROM THE LAKOTA NATION.

PASATIEMPO

ART IN REVIEW
Three exhibitions at New Mexico Museum of Art
Michael Abatemarco

Through April 29 New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072 One need not look beyond Santa Fe to find correspondences between the art of the present moment and that of a century past. No work of art is created in a vacuum, and artistic influences are always derived from some external impetus. For every artist, the past haunts the present. That doesn’t mean, however, that the future can be discounted.

Ati Maier’s 10-minute, single-channel video The Placeless Place(2016) supports the intention behind the museum’s three current exhibitions, the openings of which were timed to coincide with its centennial in November. Maier’s video seems complementary to the exhibitions’ themes of bridging past, present, and future, and is among the last works you’ll encounter in the show Contact: From Local to Global, tucked at the far end of the museum’s New Wing Gallery.

In The Placeless Place, the figure Maier calls Space Rider — outfitted with a glowing orb for a helmet, dressed like an astronaut, and riding a horse — traverses an urban landscape, ending up in New York City’s Times Square amid throngs of people and flashing neon. At the same time, another screen shows the rider in a barren desert landscape. The juxtaposition seems to hint that the empty landscape is a place to which we’re headed or, perhaps, the place from which we came. The video is cyclical, making it difficult to know if the artist is differentiating between the past and the present or drawing a parallel between them. Though the barren landscape is more natural than its urban counterpart, the terrain nonetheless seems oddly alien. But the rider, a recurring figure in Maier’s work, inhabits both land- and cityscape, moving among the urban crowds in her outer-space uniform like a performance artist. She remains aloof and apart, mounted on her horse, seemingly a visitor from another world.

Contact: Local to Global focuses on more contemporary works in the museum, along with the intersection of those works with historic art in the collection. The museum has always looked to the broader national and international art scene, often in dialogue with local and regional art. Other themes also emerge, such as environmental concerns and ways in which artists have broached that topic. Two works in particular stand out in this regard: Homage to Nature by Sarah Charlesworth and Pollination by the collective Postcommodity.