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Corinne Mercadier: Recent Work – An American Debut

September 21, 2006- November 18, 2006

Reception: September 21, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Corinne Mercadier

Alan Klotz Gallery

511 W 25th St

Corinne Mercadier is a mid-career French artist represented in Paris and Brussels by the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire and now the Alan Klotz Gallery in New York. Her work appears in many public collections including the Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris; FNAC, Paris; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; and Polaroid Corporation Collection, Cambridge, MA. She has published four books with Filigranes Editions and Actes Sud, Paris.

Corinne Mercadier has shown her work at Fotofest, Houston, TX; Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris; Paris-Photo, Paris; La Primavera FotoGrafica, Barcelona; and ARCO, Madrid. In 2001, she won the Altadis Prize from Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, and Galerie Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid. In 2003, the French Ministry of Culture commissioned her to do a series of works for the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie (RIP) in Arles, France; Galerie du Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse mounted an exhibition of new work in early 2006.

Corinne Mercadier’s works are photographs of photographs of photographs. What they lose in the degrading of the images they more than make up for in emotional impact.

“Corinne Mercadier's photographs are like memories: they evoke times and moods that the mind's eye fuses into slightly faded compositions of half remembered private faces of public places. There are often no people to serve as markers of space or scale, only the ambiguous play of surface and light, an insistently planar geometry at odds with hazy colors and tones. Unlike a sweeping postcard-panorama that places the viewer at the same obligatory distance as the camera lens, the very absence of context serves here to reinforce the sense of immediacy: like a film sequence that starts without an establishing shot, the railings, rocks, poles” [and artist manufactured pieces of sculptural forms] “random shadows that cut across the foreground project us right into the scenes we are looking at. Nor is this proximity strictly physical, for these are sites (and sights) that Mercadier has known since childhood. And it is this familiarity that she transforms into the paradoxical singularity, the ineffable particularity, of the everyday.”

- Excerpted from Miriam Rosen’s Artforum review of a Paris exhibition of Ms. Mercadier’s work -

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