Gerhard Merz

With his rigorous theoretical thinking and his singular approach to the artistic field, Gerhard Merz has been building a mental synthesis of architecture and painting for more than 30 years, which he himself calls archipittura.

Since 1970 he has distinguished himself by painting phrases or logos on a monochrome background, highlighting the place of the painting in space. Very interested in the relationship between painting and space, he multiplies experiments mixing monochrome paintings with photographic enlargements with massive frames. His relationship to architecture and its codes led him to radicalise his position. Colour, text and framing create highly structured emblematic spaces. Between abstraction, symmetry and seriality, he uses all the principles of modernist architecture and references to history. Attentive to measurements, volumes, materials and typography, his exhibitions, like his catalogues, are of a cold, even learned precision.

Invited by the Printemps de Septembre in 2005, he created a light installation in the rotunda of the institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse.

A le Printemps de septembre 2005 production