| Tomas Mayer |
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Painter.
Born 1970 in Stockholm to a Dutch mother and a Polish father I became the first and only Swede in the family. In 1992 I moved to Poland to study Fine Arts at the Academy in Warsaw. Receiving my diploma in 1997, the coming years where very fruitful. The economic boom on the Polish market gave me a lot to do. Then in 2002 came the recession. Never the less I opened my own graphic studio called Newtopia - the improved version of an utopia. In 2005, after several years in advertising and publishing, I decided to start painting again.
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| About the Artist |
I get inspired by relations and differences and the patterns we all create every day. In my painting I often use schemes and (figures) numbers as base. Seeing quite more life and character in numbers, than, I use them instead of bodies to paint portraits. Creating groups or "families" of numbers they start to exist in a more living way.
I think that we should honor the figures more for what the bring us every day. They serve us doubtlessly guarding our secrets behind numerous codes - PIN codes for accounts, phones and doors. They mark periods in our lives like milestones in phone numbers or addresses.
My paintings are mostly a tribute to numbers and relations. |
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"Agenda 1"
2005 oil on canvas 73x92 cm |
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Inspired by mind maps and time schedules, this "Agenda" symbolize steps and decisions made in life, or during a single day. |
"Sequens 1"
2006 oil on canvas 50x50 cm |
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From the series "Sequense in Squares". |
"Organised Relations"
2006 oil on canvas 65x81 cm |
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From the series "Relations". |
"Relation 1"
2007 oil on canvas 65x81 cm |
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From the series "Relations". |
Alchemie 2
2006 oil on canvas 160x160 cm |
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From the series "Alchemie". Inspired by an old arabic chess riddle called "The Knights Round", where the knight must visit every field of an empty chess board once. In this case the knight also finishes its round where he started. To solve the riddle I used lines and numbers which explains the materia.
To me, it symbolizes striving or simply the course of life. |
"Dr and Patient"
2009 oil on canvas 65x81 cm |
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"Alchemie 3"
2007 oil on canvas 160x160 cm |
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From the series "Alchemie" - inspired by an old arabic chess riddle called "The Knights Tour", where the knight must visit every field of an empty chess board once. In this case the knight also finishes its round where he started. To solve the riddle I used lines and numbers which explains the pattern.
To me, it symbolizes striving or simply the course of life. |
"Agenda 3"
2008 oil on canvas 65x81 cm |
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"Agenda 5"
2009 oil on canvas 73x92 cm |
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| Education and biography |
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
EXHIBITIONS 2009
The Opera Gallery, Polish Contemporary Art - Budapest, Hungary
Victoria Continental Inn - Dharampur, India
The Chandigarh Museum And Art Gallery - Chandigarh, India
The Indira Gandhi National Centre of the Arts - New Delhi, India
Warsaw Art Gallery - Warsaw, Poland |
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Website: www.tomasmayer.com |
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