Nose flute paintings by Maikel Mei

It is not necessary to introduce Maikel Mei on this blog anymore, since he has become a great and regular source for it. Let's just remember his series of drawings and his ink work, formerly published in this page.

Today, Maikel sends us a series of 4 paintings, individual paintings, but working as elements of a whole. Put together, they represent a Swan logo Maikel Mei logo (MM) nose flute.



« They are individual compositions, each with their own colour scheme. The medium is acrylic metallic paint on canvas. Each canvas measures 30 x 40 cms. The 'big picture' therefore measures 60 x 80 cms. Only 4 colours were used: green, lilac, blue and pink, all complementing each other. They can be hanged as a group: I intended them to be hanged in various arrangements. I like the idea of being totally free to hang them the way I like. I think it suits the instrument with its total freedom of pitch. »

In his drawings, we already felt Maikel's obsessivity through the huge accumulation of quick sketches of the same object (what they call "wearing an object out by drawing") [see Gérard Titus-Carmel's work "The Pocket Size Tlingit Coffin (or: Of lassitude considered as a surgical instrument)" as a topic example]. And with a rule added by Maikel Mei : one line of pencil.

Here too, there is a kind of mathematical and geometrical constrainst applied to the four paintings. The 4 elemental canvas were built in order to fit together when differently arranged : some lines still connect to others, even when the tiles are set according to another combination.




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On the same topic :

- Beautiful drawings by Maikel Mei
- Nose flute paintings by Maikel Mei
- Maikel Mei's new paintings
- Bocarina painting by Maikel Mei

- Mei's History of Art - Series 1: Rock Cave Art

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