MERZ

Albert Merz’s engravings are printed in France (Alsace).The images are both abstract and figurative, contemporary and inspired by archaism, his works combine geometric shapes with natural shapes, thus forming a harmonious balance between darkness and light, colors and transparency.
Alber Merz lives and works in Germany
Born in 1942 in Unterägeri/Switzerland. He lives and works in Berlin.
1980-1984 Studies at the School of Higher Arts, Berlin
in 1986 Labour Exchange of the City of Berlin and the Istituto Svizzero, Rome
1997 Year of work in London for the cultural foundation Zuger Landis Gyr

Press release on the occasion of the exhibition Albert Merz – colour changes

«Clear images full of secrets, is it paradoxical?» asks Albert Merz. In the concentrated language of his sign painting, he gives every day a new convincing answer that is always full of surprises again. The visitors of his exhibition plunge into a storm of images often abstract but which speak of the objective world of everyday things. Work of the passage from microcosm to macrocosmology, contemporary and archaic at the same time. His work is based on the principle of duality. Discoveries of parallel images, antonymic pairs connected by contradictory tensions. Albert Merz does not aim to make polarities disappear, but to show their balance. And he shows this through the passage from one to the other. This concerns not only the confrontation of geometric and organic shapes, but also the quasi-natural links of elements connected in the same technique. Polarity is often found in darkness and light, split by colors. In the play of light and shadow, the brush lines contrast with the shapes of colors and delicate transparency.
Elfi Kreis

Recent personal Exhibitions

2023
Kunstkontor Karin Melchior, Kasse
Elitzer Gallery, Saarbrücken
2022
Reinart Gallery, Neuhausen am Rheinfall (CH)
Rochus Lussi
Galleri Artc Tønder (DK)
Galleri Artc Haderslev (DK)
St. Johanniskirche Herford
Ägerihalle Unterägeri (CH)
Kommunale Gallery Berlin
2021
Carla Renggli Gallery, Zug (CH)
Verwaltungsgebäude Zug
2020
KunstKubusCham (CH) Punkt Komma Strich”