Volker Mayr
Biography
Volker lives and works in Berlin, was taught by his grandfather, the german painter Otto Glossmann and has been painting since his childhood.
He started with realistic painting. Since 1985, non-figurative works predominate with references to abstract expressionism.
The art historian Gerhard Charles Rump:
„Mayrs paintings in their combination of painterly gestures and visible structures of the colour mass are remarkable, the colours themselves, their tones. They move in rarely explored areas, do not jump at the viewer, but require sensitive approach and a willingness to see them with patience to see all traces of nuances. Images as they are dynamic in origin and have a form of inventory, that makes a meditative element.“
2018 „Winsor&Newton Prize“ des Palm Art Award.
2020 „Gold Award“, Winner der World Association of Artists Annual Art Competition
1986 – 1995 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung
1986 Galerie Wolff Berlin, Galerie Jungfernstieg Berlin
1991 Foyer Bundeswirtschaftsministerium
1993 Galerie Wolff Berlin, Steigenberger Maximilian Bad Griesbach
2003 Ars Artis Klagenfurt
2005 Galerie artoz Fürth
2018 Gallery Steiner Wien, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery New York
2019 Januar Arte Innsbruck, April ART EXPO New York, Feb-Mai KUN:ST Quartier Leonberg,
September Stadtgalerie Kitzbühel
2020 ADAF Annual Dutch Art Fair Amsterdam
Artist Statement
„What composers do with music, poets with words, I wish with my paintings: inspire people and create emotions. I want to trigger impulses that make the soul of the viewer vibrate.“
Volkers pictures arise from all the senses and emotions: they are sensual, un-premeditated and with a playful love for enigmatic details. Multiple and vibrant relationships between colours and surface textures are being created by layers that form transparent views, bold and expressive, emotional, and spontaneous. Volkers dreams tend to be colourful but non-figurative – thus, his paintings follow his dreams.
Website www.volker-mayr.de
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/volkermayr/
"Peace For The Planet, oil on canvas, 120x90x2 cm
"Grace Under Pressure (Hemingway)", oil on canvas, 80x80x2 cm
"A Hot Summer Night", oil on canvas, 60x60x1.5 cm
"Celebratin Of Colors", oil on canvas, 100x80x2 cm
"City Lights", oil on canvas, 80x80x2 cm
"Climate Change", oil on canvas, 80x60x1.5 cm
"Jam Session", oil on canvas, 60x60x1.5 cm
"Rhapsody In Red, Yellow And Blue", 100x80x2 cm
