Manuel Mérida Valencia, Venezuela, b. 1939.
A disciple of Braulio Salazar and Claudio Mimo, Manuel Mérida studied painting and sculpture at the Arturo Michelena School of Plastic Arts in his hometown. Between 1968 and 1973 he traveled to Europe, residing alternately in Rome, Paris, London and Barcelona. In the French capital he befriended Carlos Cruz-Diez and collaborated in his studio for two years. Back in Venezuela, in 1973, he began to integrate concepts of space and movement into his works, gradually distancing himself from the informalist and gestural trend that marked his work in the late 1960s.
His personal artistic activity runs parallel to his work as a decorator and set designer for film and television, collaborating with Luis Armando Roche, Néstor Rodríguez Lamelas and Max Douy. Since 1983 he has settled back in Paris.
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Manuel Mérida
Solo Show 1 Jun - 8 Aug 2021Venezuelan artist Manuel Mérida, born in 1939, moved to Paris in 1968. He was trained at the School of Fine Arts in Valencia, Venezuela, where he became one of the...Read more -
MARIÓN ART GALLERY: 10 YEARS
COLLECTIVE 1 - 30 Apr 2020In April 2010, guided by the will and vision of my father, and accompanied by my sister and my mother, we opened a gallery in a space and a country...Read more -
Espacialidad
COLLECTIVE 6 - 31 Jul 2011The artists that make up this exhibition have decided to incorporate space into their creations, either as a true three-dimensionality that moves towards the real space or as a volumetric...Read more -
Inestabilidad
COLLECTIVE 1 Sep 2010 - 30 Jun 2011Many of our artists have in common the concern for the interaction of the work and the viewer, and the inclusion of real time and space as phenomena present in...Read more
