The Museo de Arte de Ponce announces the opening of the exhibition “Matthias Weischer: New Work” on view November 26, 2011 – March 26, 2012.
Matthias Weischer, Stand, 2011. Oil on canvas, 11.8 x 15.7 in. (30 x 40 cm). Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig / Berlín. Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin.
Matthias Weischer (born in 1973 in Rheine, Germany) is a painter living in Leipzig. Weischer is considered to be part of the New Leipzig School. Weischer studied painting from 1995 to 2001 and received his MA in 2003 from Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig. He was student in the master class of Professor Sighard Gille. In 2002, he was co-founder of the artist-initiated gallery LIGA in Berlin that was run by eleven former HGB students, among them Christoph Ruckhäberle, Tim Eitel, David Schnell and Tom Fabritius. LIGA was closed after two years in 2004. After cooperating with Galerie Kleindienst (Leipzig) and Anthony Wilkinson (London), Weischer is represented by Galerie EIGEN + ART (Leipzig/Berlin) since 2004. His studio is located at the Leipzig Cotton Mill. – Wikipedia.com
The Museo de Arte de Ponce’s internationally renowned collection is comprised of more than 4,500 works of art from many cultures, dating from the ninth century C.E. to the present. This dynamic, wide-ranging collection includes paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings, decorative arts, pre-Hispanic and African objects, Puerto Rican folk art, contemporary ceramics, video, and sound art. – www.museoarteponce.org