Mark Mayer

Mark Mayer was born in 1983 in Linz, Austria and grew up in Vienna. Since the age of twelve Mark has been involved in street art. Additionally he has been creating sculptures, assemblages and drawings, accumulating over a thousand pieces of work. Among them are SIC LUCEAT LUX, ADAM AND EVE IN PARADISE, THIS JEWELRY MAKES WHITE TEETH. His materials include, but are not limited to, graphite, paper, oil and acrylic paints as well as steel and various woods. Mark has reshaped parks, walls and many different modes of public transportation with his various artworks. One of his latest official shows, titled 'EXHIBITION Platz der Luftbrücke', took place in June of 2011 in a Subway station in Berlin/Germany.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtU1uIIYSyg
Mark currently lives in Berlin.

Since the beginning of his work as a public artist, Mark Mayer has continuously dealt with the area of conflict between authentic urbanity and the artificial influence of human beings on this living environment. He is stimulated by the reassessment of ordinary perspectives, opposition to consent, and confrontation with socio-politically and economically marked areas.

Despite their abstract content, Mayer’s works contain a dual narration within their layer of figure and text. His work often broaches the issue of sexual contrast between man and woman by playing with the ambivalent fusion, the unification, the dissolution, the solving, the differentiation and juxtaposition of the genera. Other themes are power, dominance, capitalism, reality, perception, and the ideals of freedom, success, happiness and beauty.
Text-fragments like "formal autonomy" and "like me like that" are statements, demands, or wishes formed through the examination of scientific and philosophical literature as well as quotations representing public perception.
Mark Mayer explains his spontaneous modus operandi with a specific state of mind, a kind of "hardwiring" of films, music, texts and observations of daily life, through which he builds a rich body of associations to feed his visions.
He creates through impulses, yet intuitively follows the inner logic and necessity of his work.