Artistic work
Artistic work
As "nature and technics artist" Markus Meurer collects things other people throw away. For him this is not rubbish but material which he joins with wire to become fantastic, narrative, figurative forms. Not only having a sure eye for forms but also for the secret nature of his finds of broken glass, rusty metal, coloured paper, bone and anything that is normally overlooked and thrown away, he joins them together to become new creatures. In his creative and untiringly working hands again and again insects, fish, hybrid vehicles, robots and winged objects grow in an unmistakably individual language of shapes. Mostly they are small but some are also larger-than-life sculptures, in which his love of nature and his fascination of technics are expressed.
Even everyday items, be it the hooks on the walls or the dustpan, he turns into objects which have, in his social surrounding, an invigorating, protecting or healing function.
Apart from this, there are also watercolours and collages in which he expresses the thoughts he is engaged in.
Markus Meurer also explains his thoughts in handwritten texts. Thus in 2007 his "Book of Anxiety" was created.