Emerich Meerson, a French painter born in Germany, spent his childhood
in Bulgaria during the Second World War. He lives and works in Paris. He designed watches and jewellery collections under his own name,
as well as for the most celebrated jewellers, such as Tiffany's, Elsa Perretti,
Mikimoto, Van Cleef & Arpels. Recognised as one of the most talented designers of his generation,
he continues to design and paint. The result today is an
extraordinary body of work. He has been exhibiting for only about twelve years, first in
private surroundings, then in individual or group shows. It's hard to classify Emerich Meerson in a particular school or
trend, because of his abundant creativity and his constant pursuit
of plastic expression. His Individuality is strong and recognisable
in all his work, which is, first and always, full of emotion. To look at one of his drawings, one of his paintings, one of his
sculptures, always inspires questions, feelings, and reflection. It's hard to classify Emerich Meerson in a particular school or
trend, because of his abundant creativity and his constant pursuit
of plastic expression. His Individuality is strong and recognisable
in all his work, which is, first and always, full of emotion. To look at one of his drawings, one of his paintings, one of his
sculptures, always inspires questions, feelings, and reflection. Emerich Meerson's work is never demonstrative; it's evocative. That's because the artist inspired by childhood, the family,
love, faith always looks for the truth hidden behind the visible
world. Sometimes profusely, sometimes sparsely, he transmutes the vibrations
of the material, the coexistence of order and disorder, the movement
toward becoming rather than an image stuck in the present.
His work is rich and enriching. "(....) a kind of dreamy goodliness which transforms (his) violence
into meditative energy and movement....
Having been a watch designer has surely given him the taste for
dense mechanisms, where the combined elements come together in the
interior of compact forms, resulting in the ability (or the predisposition)
to compose signs of space-time.
The formats can vary; that changes nothing in this ability to
accumulate miniature calligraphies which his brush applies to paper
that has been treated with India ink. The rhythms breathe, imitating
a version of nature that has been reorganised by Emerich Meerson.
This is definitely concrete "abstraction". Each vision corresponds
to a response from the outside to the inside, from the heart of man
to the soul of the world. (....)
Everything here is contained in the gesture, the writing, and the
silence. Curling, dancing, shapes, territories, stained glass, a
labyrinth-tree rising and extending to the surface, behind which I
invite you to look at the shivering rainbow of nights-days-water
and fire."
Pascal Payen-Appenzeller
Writer, poet, historian
[Biography Document - Emerich Meerson - 9K - Published February 22 2004]
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/Emerich Meerson.jpg/$File/Emerich Meerson.jpg) Emerich Meerson, a French painter born in Germany, spent his
childhood in Bulgaria during the Second World War. He designed watches and jewellery collections under his own name,
as well as for the most celebrated jewellers, such as Tiffany's, Elsa
Perretti, Mikimoto, Van Cleef & Arpels. Recognised as one of the most talented designers of his generation,
he continues to design and paint. The result today is an
extraordinary body of work. He has been exhibiting for only about twelve years, first in
private surroundings, then in individual or group shows. * * * * It's hard to classify Emerich Meerson in a particular school or
trend, because of his abundant creativity and his constant pursuit
of plastic expression. His Individuality is strong and recognisable
in all his work, which is, first and always, full of emotion. To look at one of his drawings, one of his paintings, one of his
sculptures, always inspires questions, feelings, and reflection.
Emmerich Meerson's work is never demonstrative; it's evocative.
That's because the artist -- inspired by childhood, the family,
love, faith -- always looks for the truth hidden behind the visible world.
Sometimes profusely, sometimes sparsely, he transmutes the vibrations
of the material, the coexistence of order and disorder, the movement
toward becoming rather than an image stuck in the present. His work
is rich and enriching.
"(....) a kind of dreamy goodliness which transforms (his) violence
into meditative energy and movement....
Having been a watch designer has surely given him the taste for dense
mechanisms, where the combined elements come together in the interior
of compact forms, resulting in the ability (or the predisposition) to
compose signs of space-time.
The formats can vary; that changes nothing in this ability to
accumulate miniature calligraphies which his brush applies to paper
that has been treated with India ink. The rhyhms breathe,
imitating a version of nature that has been reorganised by
Emmerich Meerson.
This is definitely concrete "abstraction". Each vision corresponds
to a response from the outside to the inside, from the heart of man
to the soul of the world. (....) Everything here is contained in the gesture, the writing, and the
silence. Curling, dancing, shapes, territories, stained glass, a
labyrinth-tree rising and extending to the surface, behind which I
invite you to look at the shivering rainbow of nights-days-water
and fire." Pascal Payen-Appenzeller
Writer, poet, historian
[Biography Document - Emerich Meerson - 5K - Updated March 12 2004]
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