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The exhibition On the Mirror Stage places the work of Klaus Merkel (born in Heidelberg in 1953) at the center of a dialogue with three artists from different backgrounds and generations: Monika Baer (born in Freiburg in 1964), Mimosa Echard (born in Alès in 1986), and David Medalla (born in Manila in 1938, died in 2020). While there is a clear affinity between Baer and Merkel, rooted in the continuity of a German pictorial tradition, the connections with Medalla and Echard open up more unexpected fields of interpretation, allowing us to take a fresh look at Merkel‘s work.
Since the 1980s, Merkel has developed a systematic approach to painting, in which each work is constructed in relation to a whole. In the early 1990s, he reproduced, all of his paintings produced between 1988 and 1995 on seven large panels at a scale of 1:10. This body of work became an active archive, a reservoir of images from which he drew for his subsequ…
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The exhibition On the Mirror Stage places the work of Klaus Merkel (born in Heidelberg in 1953) at the center of a dialogue with three artists from different backgrounds and generations: Monika Baer (born in Freiburg in 1964), Mimosa Echard (born in Alès in 1986), and David Medalla (born in Manila in 1938, died in 2020). While there is a clear affinity between Baer and Merkel, rooted in the continuity of a German pictorial tradition, the connections with Medalla and Echard open up more unexpected fields of interpretation, allowing us to take a fresh look at Merkel‘s work.
Since the 1980s, Merkel has developed a systematic approach to painting, in which each work is constructed in relation to a whole. In the early 1990s, he reproduced, all of his paintings produced between 1988 and 1995 on seven large panels at a scale of 1:10. This body of work became an active archive, a reservoir of images from which he drew for his subsequ…
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