Wieland Payer - Waldstaub

But beautiful is also the time of awakening, as long as you don’t wake us at the wrong moment.

Hölderlin

Wieland Payer's pastels reflect the crisis of the concept of the image, which is expressed in the disrupted relationship between the image of nature and the nature of the image. The understanding that images are constructions of the world has been a certainty throughout all eras; otherwise, there would be no history of styles. For the past 200 years, art historians have been working to appreciate and categorize this. However, to make construction the sole subject of art is the enabling act of modernity.

Wieland Payer, who studied when all of this was already consensus, wanders not through landscapes but through art history as if it were a depot, without the need to legitimize or justify himself in any way. He extracts what he needs in terms of visual props to conjure up sophisticated atmospheric backdrops that we are expected to respond to. As a brilliant draftsman, he creates a sphere of overwhelming beauty, alluring illusion, and dreamlike serenity. It draws the viewer in like a magnet until they awaken. And when Hölderlin asks to be awakened only at the right moment, one could say that Payer creates his images precisely for this untimely awakening.

Michael Freitag

We warmly invite you and your friends to the opening with Wieland Payer on Friday, June 24, from 7 to 9 PM.

A catalog featuring a text by Michael Freitag will be published, which we will present with a reading.

From June 10 to August 28, 2016, Wieland Payer will exhibit at the Angermuseum Erfurt, and in the fall of 2016 at the Leonhardi Museum Dresden.

From August 2 to September 3, our gallery will be in summer mode and will open by appointment.