Friedhard Meyer

Concrete Acrylic Needle Painting

Starting point

In this project, I have given myself the task of reducing the works to only colors, to find with color ways to abstract colors as much as possible, to reduce them to their effects, that is to say to leave the colors become art. The starting point of this type of painting was the desire to conceive of colors in their links and their effects on each other.

Intuition

My color compositions are none other than the result of colored intuition, more than the result of mathematical-geometric considerations, as the Concrete Art proclaims. What always fascinates me, what I seek, is the mystery of color and its perception. My goal is to discover the essence of color and capture it in an image.

Message

These works convey a message that goes beyond the event shaped and colored in the work. It is the experience of silence, simplicity and meditative immersion that these colorimetric spaces transmit.

Technical

I work on these works by applying the acrylic needle technique that I developed myself, my drawn surfaces being produced only by placing a flat brush 10cm wide vertically. The colors are applied in the form of fine needles, which can be overlapped in several layers. In this way, high color densities are created in a small space. The charm of these works lies, among other things, in their precision. The way the paint is applied is a unique and important selling point for my works.