|
MY LANGUAGE IS COLOUR
Vita
Robert
Mercier was born in 1945 in the South-West of France
(Grand-Lemps). During 1962/63, whilst
studying with the French expressionist painter Pierre Hemery, he took
part in a
performance work based on Picasso’s
“Guernica” with music by Olivier Messiaen.
In
1964, after collaborating with the Belgian artist Engel-Pak in
creating glass and resin stained-glass windows for a church in Cabries,
Bouches-du-Rhone, Robert Mercier became aware of the primacy of colour.
He subsequently
turned to abstract expressionism.
In
1970 he moved to Germany, where his numerous assignments over the
years included graphics for wine and spirits advertising. From 1980 to
’82 he
perfected a personal painting technique for dry pastels on velour paper.
From
1996 Mercier’s works were frequently exhibited. He
was also involved in a tribute to Charles
Baudelaire wherein his acrylic canvases were staged in a lightshow
whilst a
musician improvised on piano and an actor read extracts from
“Les Fleurs du
Mal”.
In
addition to these pursuits, he created the design for a limited
series of Rosenthal porcelain for Danka Office Products.
Over
the last years, he worked on an interpretation of a series of poems
entitled “The Twenty-Eighth Engram of the Cosmic
Wheel” by Oswald H.
Edelhäuser, which he also translated into French.
After
spending thirty-five years in Germany, Robert Mercier returned to
France in July, 2005 and settled in the Dordogne where he died in
September
2009.
|
Recent Exhibitons
2000
|
« Fantasy
& Technology », Sarl GHS GmbH, Trier, Germany
|
|
« Dimensions of a
Taboo », TUFA, Trier, Germany
|
|
|
2001
|
« My language is
Colour », Townhouse Bonn, Germany
|
|
«Dimensions of a
Taboo», Cultural Forum, Erfurt, Germany
|
|
« Art over the roofs
of Mayence», Café Grünewald, Mainz,
Germany
|
|
|
2002
|
« Rhine Romantic
today », City Library, Bingen, Germany
|
|
« Gallery in
the Clock Tower », Dierdorf, Germany
|
2003
|
«
Art in Ahoy », Art-Fair, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
|
«
Art-Event », Art-Fair, Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany |
|
«
Presentation », Gallery von Merkenreich, Bingen, Germany |
|
|
2004
|
Studio of the goldsmith
Christof Menges, Hahn am See, Westerwald, Germany
|
|
|
2005
|
« Passiontide »,
« Book of the Twelve Minor
Prophets », Protestant Church of Worms-Horchheim,
Germany
|
|
Gallery
„Rheingold“, Oberdiebach, Germany
|
|
|
2006
|
Hotel „Jardin
Fleuri“, Chabrouillas/Bosset, France
|
|
|
2010
|
„My language is
Colour“, Tourist Information, Ribérac, France -
posthumous
|
|
|