Fabien Mérelle, Strange Tree

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Fabien Mérelle projects his body into a universe where everything blends - animal, vegetal, and mineral -, where bark gnaws at the skin, where man is similar to beasts. A world where there is no more law of gravity, no decorum, no taboo. From these settings emerge detailed scenes, the leaf or the matter as a receptacle of the author's thoughts, desires, and anxieties.

Mérelle's drawings and sculptures immerse us, with irony, into the phantasmagorical world of dreamlike and hybrid figures, mixing animal and human worlds. His intimate works, imbued with ultra-realism and fantasy, are inspired by both the surrounding world and his emotional landscape. Molding the improbable in a realistic manner, he reveals the hidden side of decor, another reality where Greek myths and ancestral beliefs intermingle.

The burlesque compositions often mock the artist's torments without diminishing their gravity: Mérelle's visual and linguistic allegories are an outlet allowing him to channel his emotions and tame his fears.

“For Strange Tree, there had to be arms, but it said too much, it suggested nothing more. I was destabilized. It seemed obvious to me that this silhouette should remain as it was. Without its arms, I felt its impotence I remembered that among Hindus, the worst reincarnation is that of the tree and I accepted that this work should speak of that incapacity. It is a hard work and at first, I wanted to hide that. Then I thought of some Giacomettis, all long, I thought of some Zoran Music, which are only cries. (...) This sculpture is a totem, it reminds me of those Roman busts that inhabited me so much, those of the Villa Borghese. It is these busts that made me want to sculpt. I am Roman by my mother and often my father when we crossed one of these ancient works reminded me that they were my ancestors that we shared the same face, the same aquiline nose. When I saw Strange Tree without its arms, I thought of that and I said to myself that this trunk was the submerged part of our being, the one made up of all those who made us who we are.” - Fabien Mérelle Presented by By Lara Sedbon


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  • 2024-10-22 2024-11-24 Europe/Paris Fabien Mérelle, Strange Tree Fabien Mérelle projects his body into a universe where everything blends - animal, vegetal, and mineral -, where bark gnaws at the skin, where man is similar to beasts. A world where there is no more law of gravity, no decorum, no taboo. From these settings emerge detailed scenes, the leaf or the matter as a receptacle of the author's thoughts, desires, and anxieties. Mérelle's drawings and sculptures immerse us, with irony, into the phantasmagorical world of dreamlike and hybrid figures, mixing animal and human worlds. His intimate works, imbued with ultra-realism and fantasy, are inspired by both the surrounding world and his emotional landscape. Molding the improbable in a realistic manner, he reveals the hidden side of decor, another reality where Greek myths and ancestral beliefs intermingle. The burlesque compositions often mock the artist's torments without diminishing their gravity: Mérelle's visual and linguistic allegories are an outlet allowing him to channel his emotions and tame his fears. “For Strange Tree, there had to be arms, but it said too much, it suggested nothing more. I was destabilized. It seemed obvious to me that this silhouette should remain as it was. Without its arms, I felt its impotence I remembered that among Hindus, the worst reincarnation is that of the tree and I accepted that this work should speak of that incapacity. It is a hard work and at first, I wanted to hide that. Then I thought of some Giacomettis, all long, I thought of some Zoran Music, which are only cries. (...) This sculpture is a totem, it reminds me of those Roman busts that inhabited me so much, those of the Villa Borghese. It is these busts that made me want to sculpt. I am Roman by my mother and often my father when we crossed one of these ancient works reminded me that they were my ancestors that we shared the same face, the same aquiline nose. When I saw Strange Tree without its arms, I thought of that and I said to myself that this trunk was the submerged part of our being, the one made up of all those who made us who we are.” - Fabien Mérelle Presented by By Lara Sedbon Glacis square (Fouerplaatz), Ville-Haute Luxembourg Luxembourg Art Week
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