Bartha Contemporary is delighted to announce The Weather Report, Mike Meiréʼs (Germany, b. 1964) 4th solo exhibition with the gallery. Please join us for the opening on Thursday, June 29th, 6–8 pm. The exhibition will continue until July 22nd by appointment.
Meiréʼs latest works reflect the evolving weather patterns and environmental phenomena attributed to climate change. This show will present works in a wide variety of mediums, including new works on paper, a large-scale painted carpet, ceramic sculptures, and a cast metal sculpture. His works on paper now incorporate a third process, building upon the initial newspaper grids and mono-prints seen in previous exhibitions. Adding lacquer paint in bold circular shapes, Meiré creates a ʻconstellationʼ of forms superimposed over the original linear composition.
Meiré is a multidisciplinary artist, often using everyday objects as the starting point of his works. His unique ability to transform ubiquitous objects into visually engaging works enables us to reevaluate the ʻmundaneʼ. The title piece of the show, The Weather Report, is made using surplus carpet and oil paint. The arrangement of so, undefined shapes containing repetitive patterns is inspired by the abundance of visual stimuli we process daily. Meiré also introduces ʻglitchesʼ and the ʻwarm, fuzzyʼ effects familiar in AI-generated images.
Meiré continues to work as a creative director, his influence spanning the Design and Fine Art fields. Working between two spaces, the ʻfactoryʼ or office and studio allows for continual reflection and questioning of his practice; 'what are the tools of the moment?'.
Mike Meiré describes his work as a continued investigation into life's evolutionary processes, which the artist interprets in three phases, birth, biography and death. Central to all of Meiré's work is a delicate interplay between highly refined against mundane everyday materials. The intriguing juxtaposition of organic often sexually explicit or gender-orientated objects with anodyne geometric elements play an increasingly important role in Meiré's work. These evoke a sense of ambivalence towards modernity.
Established at the turn of the century by Niklas and Daniela von Bartha, the London-based gallery, Bartha Contemporary, places a strong emphasis on non-figurative and conceptual works by mostly established American and European contemporary artists. Hailing from the second generation of the art-dealing von Bartha family, Niklas, along with his wife Daniela, maintains a retrospective look at underappreciated modernising movements of the past in the gallery programme, whilst championing the latest works of contemporary artists.
