Harding Mayer
(15-2013)
Oil on canvas
150 x 190 cm
2013
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Harding Meyer is a contemporary Brazilian artist known for his large-scale Photorealist portraiture executed with prominent brushstrokes and palette knife scrapings. His focus is on the human face—close-ups on a monochrome background—taken from popular media such as magazines, film, and television. His mark-making reflects the horizontal linear structure found in images captured from television stills, or the geometric pixelated layouts within those that are sourced via the Internet. Born in 1964 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Meyer studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künst in Karlsruhe, Germany where he currently lives and works.
(http://www.artnet.com/artists/harding-meyer/)
The main subject in Harding Meyer's work is his intensive pursuit of the artistic rendering of the human face. The subtle differences in the artistic realisation of each single motif are indicative of this intensive preoccupation. The single images, which were worked out over weeks and months, are consistent within themselves. In direct comparison, they reveal their - in every way - multi-layered origin.
(http://www.re-title.com/artists/harding-meyer.asp)
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This work demonstrates Color as an element of design in that there is a stark contrast of the bright red of the lips and the clear blue of the eyes against the light skin tone.
It demonstrates Rhythm as a principle of design in that we can follow the beat from one mouth to the other, and follow the movement as the face looks up and down again.
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We chose this work because sometimes life is just a single choice. It's a moment in time from which all else branches, and much like Schrödinger’s Cat, we aren’t aware of what path or branch of reality we have chosen until we observe it. So in the moment, you are in a quantum superposition of both having made one choice and of having made the other. You are two people instead of one - both realities existing, stretched out before you. Will you make the right choice or the wrong? And more importantly, what happens if you don't?
Harding Meyer is a contemporary Brazilian artist known for his large-scale Photorealist portraiture executed with prominent brushstrokes and palette knife scrapings. His focus is on the human face—close-ups on a monochrome background—taken from popular media such as magazines, film, and television. His mark-making reflects the horizontal linear structure found in images captured from television stills, or the geometric pixelated layouts within those that are sourced via the Internet. Born in 1964 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Meyer studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künst in Karlsruhe, Germany where he currently lives and works.
(http://www.artnet.com/artists/harding-meyer/)
The main subject in Harding Meyer's work is his intensive pursuit of the artistic rendering of the human face. The subtle differences in the artistic realisation of each single motif are indicative of this intensive preoccupation. The single images, which were worked out over weeks and months, are consistent within themselves. In direct comparison, they reveal their - in every way - multi-layered origin.
(http://www.re-title.com/artists/harding-meyer.asp)
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This work demonstrates Color as an element of design in that there is a stark contrast of the bright red of the lips and the clear blue of the eyes against the light skin tone.
It demonstrates Rhythm as a principle of design in that we can follow the beat from one mouth to the other, and follow the movement as the face looks up and down again.
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We chose this work because sometimes life is just a single choice. It's a moment in time from which all else branches, and much like Schrödinger’s Cat, we aren’t aware of what path or branch of reality we have chosen until we observe it. So in the moment, you are in a quantum superposition of both having made one choice and of having made the other. You are two people instead of one - both realities existing, stretched out before you. Will you make the right choice or the wrong? And more importantly, what happens if you don't?
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