MATHIEU MERCIER - Represented by: Spencer Brownstone

 

Born in 1970, Mathieu Mercier was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize resulting in a solo show at the Centre Georges Pompidou in France and he has a solo show scheduled for February 2004 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He is currently an artist in residence at the ISCP in New York, and later this year he will also participate in the Project Munsterland Biennial in Munster, Germany. Absolute Vodka has commissioned an "Absolute-Mercier" bottle, and Mercier will be part of the Absolute Pavillion in Venice during the Venice Biennale. Mercier has also exhibited at many major museums and art centers around the world: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; Artsonje Museum, Seoul, Korea; FRAC Bourgogne, France; Kunsthalle Nürmberg; Manifesta 4, Frankfurt; Fri-Art Kunsthalle Fribourg, France and Berlin Biennale amongst others.



Mathieu Mercier: Diamond 2004

Mathieu Mercier's work is many-sided and questions the language of aesthetics within design, architecture and interior design. He takes inspiration from the 20th Century European avant-garde utopias that projected the desire for a "total art". His work is nourished from those aesthetic references, which he deconstructs or enhances in sculptural installations.