Fabien Mérelle
Upcoming exhibition
Overview
Keteleer Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Fabien Mérelle. Mérelle's third solo exhibition with the gallery will consist of an entirely new series of works on paper.
Fabien Mérelle (b. 1981. Fontenay-aux-Roses, FR. Lives and works in Tours, FR) is known for his elegant and delicate line-drawings in black ink and watercolour. His detailed and precise works exude a humble character, but it’s by examining up close that the complexities of his imagination are revealed in a rich and personal story.
Fabien Mérelle graduated from the Beaux-Arts Academy in Paris in 2006 and attended the Beaux-Arts Academy in Xi’An, China in 2005 where his style got heavily influenced by Eastern drawing techniques and he perfected the use of Chinese ink. The famous Albrecht Dürer fed his passion for accurate anatomical rendering. The seemingly incompatible nature between his demure and almost classical style and his at times dark, confronting, psychological, ironic, disturbing,.. but also sensitive depictions leave us bewildered and intrigued at the same time.
When Mérelle returned from China, he was granted another residence at the highly esteemed Casa Vélasquez, Madrid in 2009 and in 2010 he won the highest prize in the Canson Art School Awards.
His work has been exhibited at The Armory Show, New York and Paris, the Praz-Dellavade gallery, Paris, Guy Bärtshi gallery, Geneva,… and appeared in multiple publications and is part of the Daniel and Florence Guerlain foundation, Paris.
