FAMOUS ARTISTHorst Beyer

Born in Deggendorf, Germany in 1960, he first studied art history in Munich, then pursued a career in computer science. As a teenager, he discovered his passion for art and painting, creating his first works in oils and watercolors. He later experimented with various techniques and different materials.

Since 2000, Horst Beyer has lived in Tuscany, near Florence. He continues his artistic work, increasingly focusing on a unique technique: pictorial design with electrical cables. Initially found by chance on the side of a road, electrical cables become his precious raw material. Fascinated by this seemingly ordinary recycled material, he begins to explore its properties and potential, creating a meta-painting consisting of intertwined electrical wires of varying origins and thicknesses. Often stripped of their plastic sheathing, they reveal the sheen of copper within. These works have a textile, breathable, and transparent nature, forming compulsive designs yet recomposed in a cool order. Two- and three-dimensional assemblages that, through contrasts of color, material, line, and surface, emphasize the metallic glow and luster of copper.