Markus Maier

The motif design of my works is predominantly abstract, at most the figurative expresses itself strongly stylized. The contouring of the surfaces and lines appears soft. The pictures could be any traces in thin fresh snow. Something familiar is announced when approaching, which, when looked at in detail, which requires a repeated look, poses questions: What does he work with, is it textile material, is it moving, and how did he create these images?
The surfaces are structured in relief. Small strands of color have emerged like threads from the picture surface, arranged by their weaving patterns regularly, in the different lengths uniformly strong and round with rounded end. Where they appear massaged in a proportionate length, they compress the color. The surfaces of the short strands look like shaves in a long-pile carpet.

Contrasts arise, according to the contrast between the motivic non-representationality and the figurative, plastic presence of the material execution. From this contrast, the images draw their tension.
A second contrast occurs between an obvious mobility that was (or still is) inherent in the pile of the picture, and the apparent solidification, of which it is not known how long it lasts, and whether it wil...

1964 born in Aalen, Germany
1983 carpentry apprenticeship, Aalen
1987 studies of architecure, FH Heidelberg

Exhibitions: (from 2014 selection)
2014 Museum Religio, Telgte
2014 Museum Abbey Liesborn, Wadersloh
2015 Galerie Atelier D, Bielefeld
2016 My Heimat - Museum Abbey Liesborn, Liesborn
2016 Art in the region, Gravenhorst Monastery
2016 Kunstmuseum Ahlen
2017 Stadtmuseum Warendorf, Warendorf
2018 Kreishaus Warendorf
2019 Espacio Micus, Ibiza