The best of Heimo Mauser

Invisibility is the most important prerequisite for happiness

Mostly quiet and humoring the bigger egos around - Heimo is kind of a Byronic Hero, looking for a life lived passionately and sincerely. As a nonconformist with biting honesty, he is mad, bad and dangerous to know for some, but also admired and loved by others. In his unassuming and existentialist way of life he does art at his own terms, unsettled in style and difficult to classify. On our way to a globalist, green, discretly feudalistic, strictly supervised, dangerous but humanitarian world, his art is an attempt to articulate a non-dominating thought that would recognize its limitations and accept its non-identity. Those who are sufficiently interested in his work will be smart enough to take power back from art critics and they will not ask for further clarification and interpretation.

As an artist he feels sympathetic to authentic and thus vulnerable individuals like Brett Weston or Slim Aarons:

Brett Weston - the wunderkind of American photography, naturally masculine, unharmed by politics and ideology, untroubled by issues of gender emerged as an enigma of modernism. A man who stood alone - open, sincere and innocent, inspired by the magnificence of nature. Not exactly a creature of art critics, but unmistakably genuine and positive. Is he for real? Critics, who Weston always disdained, are still making up their minds (www.brettwestonarchive.com).

Slim Aarons never made a big thing about creating high art, which is why his friend and protégé, the photographer Jonathan Becker says, "He had no pretensions at all about what we're doing. He kept reminding me, 'It's all bullshit’“. As a consequence the art world tries hard to ignore him (www.photos.com/best-sellers/best-of-slim-aarons).

Amongst others Heimo also admires Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons, Ralph Gibson, Aaron Siskind, Jacob Aue Sobol, Mario Giacomelli, Sebastiao Salgado, Josef Sudek, Peter Lik, Jan Saudek, Andreas Feininger, Rudolf Koppitz, Man Ray, Richard Avedon, David Lachapelle, Nick Brandt and Magnum-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson (www.jeffkoons.com, www.parisphoto.com, www.photolondon.org, www.thearmoryshow.com).

Es gibt schon Hinweise darauf, dass kollektive Intelligenz ein löchriges Konstrukt ist
(Peter Sloterdijk)