O.MERIJON

painting

digital work

photography

writings

 
SUMMARY WAY BIOGRAPHY THE WHITES EXHIBITION WHITES BOOKBINDING DECORATION
WHITES SPIRITS MAIL-ART ARIANESPACE PAINTING-MUSIC THE AMEDEOS
EXHIBITION / INCROYABLE MAIS BLANC DICTIONARY / LE BLANC PRESS THE PELERIN EXHIBITION / UN BLANC HAUT EN COULEURS THE IN SPIRIT
 
Born 5th June 1951, Versailles, France.
1970 Years spent travelling.

1980 Award "Jeune Peinture"Noël Quasquara".

1980 “Japon International Society”, Tokyo.
1981-1982 Museum Pascal Paoli, Corse, France.
1982 Award "Horizon Jeunesse" Salon des Indépendants, Paris.
1983 Illustration of fine books.
1984 “Art en Yvelines”, Orangerie du Château de Versailles, France.
1984 Fondation Cziffra, Senlis, France.
1985 Momentarily absent from art galleries to carry out new research.
1987 Equilibrium between representative and abstract painting.
1990 Président of the Salon "Souvenir de Corot" Viroflay, France.
1991 Paris, UNESCO.
1993 Music painting with the composer Jean-Baptiste Loussier.
1994 Exhibition Contrex "Art et Formes" Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris.
1995 Exhibition of "Variations Italiennes, Versailles, France.
1996-1997 The 150 envelope-paintings.
1997-1998 The first "Whites Spirits".
1998 Exhibition of the "Computer-assisted art - the Amédéos", Versailles, France.
1998 The first "Whites".
1999 Illustrations for Arianespace.
2000 Paris, Musée de la poste, Exhibition of "Idée Croisée: Eppolevne-enveloppE".
2001 President of the Salon d'Art, Saint Laurent Lolmie, (Lot, France).
2001 Publication of the novel "4 fauteuils blancs", Florilège (Dijon, France).
2002 Brussels, Exhibition of "White" binding" of "4 Fauteuils Blancs", J.Poydenot, artist binder.
2004 Exhibition of "The Whites", Versailles, France.

Gaugain's famous phrase "see what you paint" applies ideally to Olivier Mérijon's work. The artist captivates us with his vision of truth, even if this is merely fleeting. His means are the most simple, so simple that at times one is surprised by the extreme dimension the form of his vision takes.
The magic of this pictorial architecture lies in the precise quest for rhythms.
Rhythms which captivate and play with the incidence of light.
The ruptures in the paint itself lead to halts, necessary in the disposition of surfaces which help in establishing a certain assembled order.
Order and rupture, balance and imbalance, horizontality and musicality, curved and oblique lines are the main principles of pictorial art.
They are there, assembled together, to enable us to follow the progression of the act of painting.
In turn, we ask questions and look for the response.
Incidentally, what is “monochronism.”?
It's a certain light.

G.Prévost - June 2004

2004 Exhibition of "White" binding", Biblioteque Historique de la Ville de Paris.
2005 Exhibition of "The Whites", Trouville sur Mer, France.
2007 Exhibition of Laeti " abstract painting " and O.Mérijon "Whites", Galerie Cassandre, november, Versailles, France.
2008 Exhibition "Incroyable mais blanc", centre culturel l'écu de France, january, Viroflay, France.
2011 "Retrospective", Cultural center "C3M", november, Versailles, France.
2012 "Photographs of Idriss Martin and Olivier Mérijon", Cultural center "C3M", march-april, Versailles, France.
2013-2021 Work "The Whites" and "The In Spirit"

EXHIBITIONS

FROM 1975 TO 2012

CHAPELLE DE VINSOBRES, Drôme

SALLE WELHINGER, Viroflay, Yvelines

GALERIE GUILLET, Trudaine, Paris 18ème

GALERIE HORIZON, Versailles

GALERIE L'ECHOPPE, Marais, Paris 4ème

GALERIE CARTIER, Orange, Vaucluse

ILE ROUSSE, Corse

GALERIE LA CIMAISE, Paris 6ème

MAXIM'S, Orly-ouest

GALERIE L'ATELIER, Toul

GALERIE CIMAISE, Aix en Provence

CENTRE LES NOUVELLES, Versailles

GALERIE D'ART DE LESIGNY, 77

BIBLIOTHEQUE DE MANTES LA JOLIE

GALLART INTERNATIONAL, Salle Pleyel, Paris 17ème

GALERIE A L'ART, Montréal, Canada

GALERIE CASSANDRE, Versailles

MIROMESNIL FINE ART, Paris 8ème

LE STUDIO DE L'IMAGE, Paris 6ème

MUSEE DE LA POSTE, Paris 14ème

ORANGERIE DE PATRICIA WHITE-PALLACIO, Versailles

CHÂTEAU DES FOUGERES, Xavier et Christel Boisard, Trouville S/Mer

Peintures de Laeti et O.Mérijon, Galerie Cassandre, Versailles

Les whites à Cahors, Expo pédagogique, Lycée Olivier de Magny

 

"Photographs of Idriss Martin and Olivier Mérijon", Cultural Center "C3M", Versailles, France.

EXHIBITION "GROUPE" FROM 1976 TO 2010

In Paris, Grand Palais des Champs Elysées, Salon des Artistes Français, Salon d'Automne, Salon des Indépendants, Salon Du dessin et de la peinture à l'eau, Nationale des Beaux-Arts

EXPOSITION A VALAURIE, Drôme

EXPOSITION A ORANGE, Vaucluse

HASSLOCH, Allemagne

GALERIE GUILLET, Trudaine, Paris

PARIS, LES HALLES

JAPON INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY, Tokyo

DJEDDHA, Arabie Saoudite

VERSAILLES, Office de Tourisme

DAMPIERRE, Yvelines

CABOURG, Calvados

FESTIVAL DE PEINTURE D'ILE ROUSSE, Corse

PARIS, Ile St Louis

ART EN YVELINES, Orangerie du Château de Versailles

FONDATION CZIFFRA, Senlis

MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS, Paris

HOTEL DE FRANCE, ROTARY CLUB de Versailles

SALON "Et Rance", Abbaye de Léon, Pays de Dinan

"Incroyable mais blanc", L'écu de France, Viroflay

"O.Mérijon & Idriss Martin" Expo-Peintures, C3M, Centre d'Actions Culturelles, Versailles

COLLABORATION POUR DES RELIURES A DECORS

BIBLIOTHEQUE HISTORIQUE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, J.POYDENOT-RELIURE WHITE

MUSEE BIBLIOTHECA WITTOCKIANA, J.POYDENOT-RELIURE WHITE, Bruxelles

NOVEL"QUATRE FAUTEUILS BLANCS" Edition Florilège, Dijon

photographs of the series "Est-ce une Escale"
photographs of the series "Versailles"
 

Bibliography: E. BENEZIT,

dictionary of painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and engravers,

AKOUN, price index and, "LE BLANC", dictionnary

 
 

 

From the "perfect white" to the "white body", from the color of snow or lily, to the brilliance of the "white weapon", of diamonds and crystal ..., white hesitates between the absence or the sum of all the colors, brightness or pallor, opacity and transparency, and moves away or approaches its etymological origin (blank: "brilliant").By multiplying symbolic associations, white turns out to be absolute, ideal, light and matter, hygiene of the body and purity of the soul, neutrality, peace, but also void and silence, free space of all possibilities! It testifies to an obsessive quest for whiteness which is still that of our contemporary society.Linguist at the CNRS Annie Mollard-Desfour has notably collaborated on the drafting of the Trésor de la Langue Française. The publications of the first volumes of the dictionary devoted to colors, Le Bleu, Le Rouge, Le Rose and Le Noir, have made her the recognized specialist in the contemporary French color lexicon. She is president of the French Color Center.

 


"Et "Blanc" sort. Blanc absolu. Blanc par-dessus toute blancheur. Blanc de l'avènement du blanc. Blanc sans compromis, par exclusion, par totale éradication du non-blanc. Blanc fou, exaspéré, criant de blancheur. Fanatique, furieux, cribleur de rétine. Blanc électrique, atroce, implacable, assassin. Blanc à rafales de blanc. Dieu du "blanc". (...)

Je sens que le blanc va longtemps garder pour moi quelque chose d'outrancier."(H. Michaux, "Avec la mescaline", "Misérable miracle", 1956, L'Espace du dedans, 1966, p. 347).

"Le blanc est inaccessible, il se révèle, mais est hors d'atteinte. Blanc. Cette extrême ligne encore présente, courageuse, dans l'immense silence de cet infini secret blanc, banquise à foison et encore plus soleil de nuit, et de jours. Le blanc a la limite du silence dans un infime."(O. Merijon, "Réflexions sur les Whites", 2007).

Le Blanc is the fifth volume in Annie Mollard-Desfour's series of dictionaries devoted to words and expressions of color from the 20th century and the very contemporary period. After the fields of blue (Le Bleu), red (Le Rouge), pink (Le Rose) and black (Le Noir), he leads us, according to words and expressions, in this "color" to l 'apparent uniformity, with multiple meanings and associations, between absence or sum of all colors: ideal white, perhaps inaccessible, white direct access to light, to the essential and to the truth, white of emptiness and nothingness, source of anguish and terror. To grasp the elusive nature of white, to pierce its silence ... Such is the aim of this dictionary which lists words and expressions of white through the texts of the twentieth century and the twenty-first century beginning (from poetry to slang, novels and songs in press articles), defines its nuances, identifies its various uses, associations, connotations and figurative meanings.

 

 

White Spirits and les White are the titles given by their author, Olivier MERIJON, contemporary painter, to series of white canvases which, in a multitude of rhythms, paths, lines, breaks, reliefs, curves and obliques , capture, retain or return the light of white. (page 150) LE BLANC / DICIONNAIRES DES COULEURS / MOLLARD-DESFOUR / CNRS EDITONS 2008 / ISBN: 978-2-271-06636-7

 

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