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). |
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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
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photographs
of the series "Est-ce une Escale" |
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photographs
of the series "Versailles" |
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Bibliography:
E. BENEZIT,
dictionary of painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and engravers,
AKOUN, price index and, "LE
BLANC", dictionnary |
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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.

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"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.
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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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