Galerie Nordenhake Mexico presents the first exhibition of the German artist Meuser (Essen, 1947) in Mexico, and his 8th exhibition since our first collaboration in Stockholm in 1990. Meuser is an artist situated on the edge of sculpture, painting, and installation. In this exhibition, he presents a group of fourteen new sculptures created upon the observation of objects and waste left by industrialization. In his formative days, Meuser attended Joseph Beuys' class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and actively collaborated with key artists from the German art scene of the 1980s such as Martin Kippenberger. In 1992 he participated in documenta IX. That same year, he became professor of sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy Karlsruhe, where he mentored a new generation of artists.

Meuser's work can be read as a critique of North American minimalism, through the pragmatic use of strategies such as objet trouvé and collage, exploring the creative potential of prefabricated and found elements in various ways. After being combined and partially painted, iron sheets are assembled into new objects and transferred into new spatial and semantic contexts. In this process, the elements that make up each object are no longer effective individually and are rather reintegrated as an independent unit. The titles of the works are narrative, use humor and double entendre to convey uncomfortable or suggestive messages, and characterize the subversive spirit of the artist. The objects reveal the unmistakable, deformed, and destructive impact of force. Far from emphasizing the hardness and resistance of the starting material, Meuser highlights the flexibility and supposed softness of his found objects.