With great poetic ease, Leipzig-based media and conceptual artist Maix Mayer combines the reference systems of the humanities and natural sciences to create media-based experimental arrangements of an individual perception of time, space and history. His works can currently be seen in an extensive solo exhibition at the Leonhardi Museum in Dresden.
In the large hall, the Leonhardi Museum is showing the 80-minute film double projection Notation on Modernism. The third part of this work, Notation on Modernity (Dresden), portrays the current use of the Blasewitz Rowing Centre, a building designed by concrete shell builder Ulrich Müther. On the ground floor, this narrative is supplemented by two wallpaper motifs(Müther and GDR school building type Dresden).
In the watercolour room, the sculpture The Tuber of Modernity can be seen, a 1:1 reproduction of the tuber of the GDR dahlia cultivar Juri-Gagarin. A replica of the Yuri Gagarin dahlia commissioned by Deutsche Kunstblume Sebnitz is on the ground floor. The stamp edition Paar(e) am Strand, which Maix Mayer photographed with friends on the Baltic Sea beach, can also be found here. The icon of socialist pop culture, Walter Womacka's picture "Couple on the Beach", which was widely reproduced in the GDR and also appeared as a stamp, forms the frame of reference here.
The film projection Notation on the Malerwegwhich is projected onto a painting by the romantic landscape painter in the Leonhardi Hall, refers to the genius loci of the exhibition venue and its surroundings. As in the Kunsthalle Rostock, Maix Mayer continues this method in the Leonhardi Museum with three Dresden motifs(distant view of Bohemia, path of the red flag, couple on the beach).
Notes on the Canteen is a work that has just begun and will be created during the exhibition period; it addresses the current debate surrounding the demolition or conversion of the former Robotron canteen in Dresden.
To accompany the exhibition, the comprehensive book *barosphere 2015 – 19* , featuring an inserted vinyl single *Die Stadt* has been published.
Matthias Flügge spoke at the opening of the exhibition on Friday, 22 March 2019 at 8 pm.
The artist was present at the opening.
