Exactly This

Frank Maier’s path to painting went via sculpture and is as such intrinsically determined by sculptural/physical issues. This is reflected not in the least by the fact that all pictorial works are in addition mounted on painted wooden boxes of a slightly smaller size than the respective pictures. Thus they seem on the one hand almost to float, yet at the same time accentuate their character as physical bodies, as containers. In his painting the line acquires decisive significance. Thread‐like it spans the painted area, has a bearing to, connects, cuts and undercuts the geometric elements. For his pictorial fields Maier designs possible courses of the game which, however, never come down to any definite result but invent themselves as gliding constellations. Each picture is an echo of another picture and questions its own conditions. Exactly that.