Image seeker and image finder.
MAYO’s painting unfolds in the tension between order and poetry – between narrative fragments and abstract worlds of form. Works that are materialized ideas: spaces in which perception, imagination, and meaning continually rearrange themselves.
“Art is never merely aesthetic or intellectual. It is an existential form of questioning – about meaning, connection, and what reveals itself while simultaneously withdrawing.
Mayo Bucher
“White on White” forms the basis of this series.
Created in mixed media – painting, photography, and digital print.
The works place white on lightly pigmented grounds, often derived from clay from the nearby river Glatt.
Colors that MAYO affectionately calls dishwashedwatercoloredcolors.
Orientation Images
The landscapes in MAYO’s photo collages are devoid of people; yet not abandoned.
They become stages for a recurring question: Where do we come from, and where are we going?
At times playful, at times quietly melancholic, these works draw us into an imaginary journey.
Sabine Schaschl
MAYO’s studio on a former military airfield – a charged, inaccessible place.
This period revolved around stereotypes, orientation, numbers, and signs.
Here, MAYO developed his typographically condensed “8-images.”
A principle of order dating back to the 12th century:
Every row, column, and diagonal yields the same sum: fifteen (15)
Between mysticism and mathematics, this logic becomes for MAYO a visual model of thought:
structure infused with mystery. (Especially suitable for children and Nobel Prize winners.)
