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![Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 10 2023]()
Back to reality number one
The trip from New York to Basel is always the most difficult of the travel constellations that occur in my life between New York and Basel. It almost always also means saying goodbye to my partner for several months, making the already difficult parting from The Big City that so much more difficult.
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![Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 07 2023]()
Everyday’s life and New Jersey
The last two weeks have kind of blended together seamlessly. I found the days of the first week somehow too trivial to fill a blog post with. So there’s no overview of week 6. Although I did snap a few pictures that were taken while jogging in Central Park.
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![Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 05 2023]()
Hopperesque days
Living in New York sometimes puts a little pressure on me. Though every time I come, I am spending several weeks here, it subconsciously feels like a limited period of time to me.
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![Matthias Maier | Moving on]()
Moving on
After the break due to a cold, I finally had a week in which things got going and in which there was also time for some New York city life. I’ve been thinking about connections and am making preparations for the first paintings I am going to realize in New York.
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![Matthias Maier | Collage | Week 03 2023]()
Time out
This week is quickly told. I caught a cold and spent it mostly home and with a tissue in front of my face. So all came to a rest for a while.
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Arriving
The first full week in New York was all about arriving. Overcoming jet lag, getting into the rhythm and taking in the new studio. In addition a little bit of sightseeing.
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![Matthias Maier | Week 01 2023 - Transition Week]()
Transition week
The first week of the new year was marked by transitions. On the one hand by the temporal transition from 2022 to 2023, but mainly by my personal change of location from Basel to New York.
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![Matthias Maier | Review October]()
Review October
I don’t know why, but I have never been a big friend of October. October definitely separates summer from winter, light from dark, warm from cold. Though this October was a bit different.
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![Matthias Maier | Learning to let go]()
Learning to let go
I have spent a lot of time in my life trying to find answers to the questions that bother me. At some point, I could no longer deal with the prefabricated solutions of the major religions. They offer thought models in which you can only believe. I wanted realistic answers to my questions instead.
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![Matthias Maier | Marine Still Lifes]()
Marine Still Lifes
I have always been a mountain person rather than a sea one. I grew up in the hills of the Black Forest making trips to the Swiss alps with my parents. So I have always been surrounded by a horizon limited by mountains. It was only at the age of 16, that I saw the sea for the first time.
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![Matthias Maier | Blog | Objects of common cognition]()
Objects of common cognition
I knew Isamu Noguchi mainly for the Atari light objects, which I have seen and admired at Vitra. His sculptural work on the other hand was relatively unknown to me, although I had run across some of his work several times.
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![Matthias Maier | Blog | Living behind the screens]()
Living behind the screens
Even a place like New York City can get a bit monotonous at times like these, when the country – and much of the world – is gripped by a pandemic. Having had symptoms last week that matched those of an Omicron infection, I have now also been caught in the maelstrom of the disease and the restrictions that come with it.
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![Matthias Maier | Blog | Meeting Sophie Taeuber-Arp at the MoMA]()
Meeting Sophie Taeuber-Arp at MoMA
Like many things I did in my life, I also feel my artistic creation as a journey that I had started at some point because I felt something like wanderlust inside me. An emptiness, a gap that I didn’t know exactly how to fill. I just knew I had to fill it. With whatever.
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![Matthias Maier | Blog | Ah! New York!]()
Ah! New York!
After two and a half years, I am finally back in the big city of dreams. Now looking forward to find inspiration and prepare for my 2022 creative working plan.
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![Matthias Maier | Blog | Geometrix Roche 125 Years]()
Roche – 125 years celebrating life
Roche in Basel, Switzerland celebrates its 125th anniversary with a light projection on their Tower on the Rhine river. I’ve been informed that my submitted Geometrix work has been selected as part of the event, taking place at the end of the month.
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![Matthias Maier | Blog | Kings]()
The Kings
Are you wearing the crown in your life? I mean for yourself. Do you determine your life or do other people or circumstances determine it? Are there addictions, fears or habits that prevent you from living the true version of yourself?
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Friday 13th
It’s Friday the 13th – are you superstitious? I am not. Not anymore. Well, I never was in terms of those typical things like the fear of the number 13 or of the black cat crossing your path from the left. But there’s a whole set of thought patterns that we acquire that are based on the principle of superstition.
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What I have learned from hiking
I love hiking! Living in Switzerland most time of the year, I am blessed with a spectacular nature right on my doorstep. Even though there’s not much of it in Basel, after an hour or two train ride, you’re in another world. Surrounded by nature and with the goal of climbing a mountain.
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![Matthias Maier | About mixing colors]()
About mixing colors
Realising my paintings is a process consisting of different steps and I like all of them. However, the actual process of painting is the most fascinating part for me. This is where the magic happens. This is when I stop working with my head and start working with my heart. It’s the moment when I deeply feel connected and with that profound calm happiness and peaceful satisfaction inside.
