Quest
Wieland Payer

We cordially invite you and your friends to the opening with the artist on Saturday, September 27, at 8 p.m.!

Our present is full of wonders and challenges. Artificial intelligence, streams of migrants, barbaric ideologies and religions, murderous wars, unscrupulous politicians and business magnates – little has changed since the days of pirates. Payer's "Quest" series transports us back to the world of buccaneers and buccaneers and interweaves it with the present. He presents stormy seas, giant crystals, Flying Dutchmen – and the timeless beauty of nature.

Payer's landscapes and still lifes are largely devoid of people and covered with enigmatic apparitions. Do they originate from fiction, descriptions by Humboldtian explorers, or simply artistic imagination? Payer weaves representational, abstract, and metaphysical elements into something new. His idealized images create visions of another world.

Wieland Payer works with pastel painting, presenting this technique in a new light. He achieves this through its unusual application to large formats, a brilliant mastery and careful development of the technique, his drawing virtuosity, and a special feeling for fascinating themes.

Blue Cave, 2024, pastel, watercolor, charcoal, and ink on MDF, 80 x 120 cm, 6600 Euro

Golden Hour, 2024, pastel, watercolor, ink and charcoal on primed MDF, D. 90cm, 6000 Euro