03/12/2025
Two new cast reliefs by Mike Meiré anchor our current exhibition, I WISH YOU WELL, each revealing how the artist pushes the language of his Eternal News Series into distinct material and emotional registers.
COSMIC RETREAT (2025) is formed in bronze and treated with a palladium wash that gently oxidises the metal. The golden warmth of the bronze transforms into a soft, muted surface, allowing painterly nuances to emerge from the fossilised page. Its central fold turns inward, as if the work draws breath, inviting a moment of introspection within its calm, atmospheric depth.
INNER CONSTITUTION (2025) takes the opposite stance. Cast in blackened bronze, its outward fold thrusts the raw, torn surface of the original newspaper directly into space. The texture is bold, almost primal. Here, the fragility of the printed page becomes a forceful presence, insistent and coarse.
Together, the works speak to Meiré’s ongoing exploration of how fleeting information becomes material memory. Newspapers that once circulated for a single day now return as enduring objects, carrying their histories in metal.
I WISH YOU WELL continues until December 19th at Bartha_contemporary, tracing the tension between the disposable and the monumental, the urgent and the resilient.
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Exhibition views: I WISH YOU WELL, Bartha_contemporary
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Mike Meiré
COSMIC RETREAT, 2025
Bronze and Palladium
50 × 35 × 2 cm | 19 ⅛×13 ¾×0 ⅛ in
Photo: Mareike Tocha, Cologne
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Mike Meiré
INNER CONSTITUTION, 2025
Blackened Bronze
50 × 35 × 2 cm | 19 ⅛×13 ¾×0 ⅛ in
Photo: Mareike Tocha, Cologne
