SILVIO MEYER
b. 1941 Bern, Switzerland
d. 2023 Bern,Switzerland
WORKS | BIOGRAPHY | EXHIBITIONS | PUBLICTIONS
WORKS
BIOGRAPHY
Silvio Meyer, a graphic designer and architectural draftsman from Bern, captured his rich dreams, fantasies, and visions in surreal, fairy-tale-like images in bright colors. Meyer grew up in complicated family circumstances, mostly with foster parents. Around the age of five, he experienced a traumatic event that resulted in a severe stuttering disorder. He withdrew from the outside world and turned to his imagination, where he felt surrounded by beings that he soon began to see as apparitions. Meyer experienced spontaneous psychokinetic events at an early age. When Uri Geller caused an international sensation in the early 1970s with his alleged ability to bend spoons psychokinetically, Meyer discovered that he had the same ability.
Consequently, Silvio Meyer became one of the most intensively studied psychokinetic metal-benders. Parapsychologists and physicists have conducted numerous successful experiments with Meyer, yielding astonishing results.
The researchers installed a video camera in his apartment. In front of the camera, he removed prepared cutlery and metal rods from sealed containers and deformed them psychokinetically.
One of the most mysterious effects is said to have been achieved by Silvio in the presence of his friends after a visit to his favorite restaurant in Bern, when he is said to have reassembled a broken spoon psychokinetically. He performed this paranormal "cold welding" by placing the spoon's handle upside down on its bowl, creating a strange object: the only spoon in the restaurant's cutlery set with the restaurant's name engraved on the wrong side.
However, what gave him the most satisfaction in life was his art. Silvio Meyer also devoted his life to art. His paintings reveal a fantastic inner universe populated by nature spirits and strange creatures.
SELECTED EXHBITIONS
[All exhibitions in Switzerland]
2015 Restaurant Union, Bern
2008 Restaurant Möösli, Herrenschwanden
2004 Restaurant Laufenbad, Hub-Krauchtal
2001 Berner Versicherung, Bern
2000 Hotel Lindemann, Oensingen
1994 Stern-Galerie, Kriens LU
1987 Galerie Rudolf von Erlach, Bremgarten
1987 Galerie Stadtgraben, Büren a.d.A
1986 Galerie zur Schifflaube, Bern
1985 Galerie Rudolf von Erlach, Bremgarten
1984 Galerie Stadtgraben, Büren a.d.A.
1983 Galerie Alte Krone, Biel
1980 Galerie Brunngasse, Bern
1979 Galerie Wichterheer, Oberhofen
PUBLICATIONS
Bender, Hans and Elmar R. Gruber, „Parapsychologie - die Erforschung einer verborgenen Wirklichkeit.“ In: R. Stalmann (ed.), Kindlers Handbuch Psychologie. München: Kindler, 1982, pp. 367-399.
Wälti, Bernhard, „Die Silvio-Protokolle 1976-1977,“ Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 20, 1978, pp. 1-46.
