Heiner Meyer – Summer Breeze

Come with me/and you will be in a world of/pure fantasy
Take a look/and you will see/in your imagination
We'll start/with a twist/travel into/the world of my creation What we'll see/will defy explanation
- Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

This year's festival exhibition at the Haas & Gschwandtner Gallery features works by pop artist Heiner Meyer. The exhibition is entitled "Summer Breeze" and, in addition to Meyer's familiar motifs such as status symbols from the fashion and automotive industries and celebrities, will also be showing his new series "Enjoy the exhibition" for the first time, which shows visitors to an exhibition looking at art.
In addition, new works thematically based on the Salzburg Festival will be shown for the first time.

For more than two decades, Heiner Meyer's paintings and sculptures have featured world-famous status symbols: expensive sports cars, icons of furniture design, luxury products from Hèrmes, Prada, Gucci or Chanel, breathtakingly beautiful film stars such as Claudia Cardinale, Audrey Hepburn or Liz Taylor and sexy women in lingerie and high heels... Highly sought-after objects populate his canvases or are cast in precious metal. Brightly colored, shimmering in gold and silver, his glamorous paintings take aim at our dependence on beautiful dazzle in a world of illusion often defined by money and prestige objects. However, he never does so with a critical finger, but with a loving wink and ironic allusions. After all, isn't it human to dream of such a life of luxury or to remember the carefree childhood days with Disney's immortal characters? In addition, his paintings come across with the perfection of his old-masterly, delicate painting style or with clever allusions to great masters of art history such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol or Gerhard Richter.

Meyer is a virtuoso with brush and canvas and an imaginative juggler who creates a wonderful new world from the Lego box of art, film and consumer history. Heiner Meyer from Bielefeld is represented in over 100 public collections and has been honored with more than 250 exhibitions worldwide.