Possibility Of Perception

About this exhibition

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.