Gerhard Mayer: Interlocking

by Magdalena Holzhey

Gerhard Mayer's obsessive ink drawings, for which he sets up elaborate restrictions, describe biomorphic, but abstract shapes so precise they look machine-made and so strangely organic that they might be undiscovered life forms. The past ten years of his work is collected here, along with an interview with the artist.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published August 15, 2005

About the author

Magdalena Holzhey is an art historian and curator at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld in Germany.

Holzhey studied art history, Italian, and musicology in Berlin and Pisa. She held various academic and curatorial positions in galleries and museums, including the K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, before becoming Curator of Collections of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld. She has published widely on classical modernism and contemporary art.