In his sculptures and drawings Meuser is consistently engaged with finding and searching beyond fixed contexts or standardised patterns of functionality. In the course of his sculptural work process, he contextualises his objects, lending them new directions of thought. His source material consists of functionless steel and scrap iron objects, which the artist breathes new life into through a process involving transformation, color and language. They frame reality and construction, as their …
In his sculptures and drawings Meuser is consistently engaged with finding and searching beyond fixed contexts or standardised patterns of functionality. In the course of his sculptural work process, he contextualises his objects, lending them new directions of thought. His source material consists of functionless steel and scrap iron objects, which the artist breathes new life into through a process involving transformation, color and language. They frame reality and construction, as their material is derived from everyday life. However, on a formal level, the material only refers to routine and functionality. In a process of borrowing, yet simultaneously disengaging from an established formal vocabulary, the objects become abstracted and deconstructed. Here reshaping, color and language are crucial. Often, the vivid colouring of his objects borders on the genre of painting, however - detached from the canvas - they inscribe their surroundings as autonomous objects. Meuser’s objects forcefully break open of the format of painting without being paintings. Instead they are contour, their own material and its form - in their pure shape, they designate the constructive, which Meuser leaves to its own devices while lending the object its own narration and rhetoric, often with a title borrowed from everyday elocution. Purist approaches are undermined by conscious aesthetic deviations, causing further planes of reference to emerge, which relate more to real life than to sublime transcendency.