Eugenio Merino

His works are balanced between beliefs and disbelief, paradoxes and logic, taste and bad taste, respect and offense. The artist often assumes a cynical role and reveals uncomfortable views of contemporary societies.

Throughout his career, Merino has demonstrated the ability to establish a trans disciplinary work, capable of merging different media such as neorealist sculpture, paintings, drawings or installations. He finds inspiration in a popular imaginary and in the media that he combines with dialectical, metaphorical and metonymic means to assemble his works of art.

The opposition of different realities, as well as disparate references and symbols, also generate different possible ways of reading his artistic production. Elements from 21st century iconography and cultural stereotypes that have shaped Western thought can be found in his works of art with an added sense of acid irony and discursive sarcasm.

BIO

Eugenio Merino (Madrid, 1975)

Merino has had important solo shows such as Paraíso in DA2 Domus Artium (Salamanca, España, 2019), Home Sweet Home at ADN Gallery (Barcelona, Spain, 2017), Here Died Warhol (New York, USA, 2018), Aquí Murió Picasso at the French Alliance (Málaga, 2017), Sons of Capital at Unix Gallery ( New York, USA, 2016), Will Work for Fast Food at Unix Gallery (Houston, USA, 2015), Always Shameless at Unix Gallery (New York, USA, 2014) or We don’t need another hero in The Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki, Finlandia, 2011).

His works have been shown in museums and biennials including the Kunsthal Kade (Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2020), Casal Solleric (Mallorca, Spain, 2020), Kunstverein Wiesbaden (Germany, 2020) HALLE 14, (Leipzig, 2019), TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Tenerife, Spain, 2016), Matucana 100 (Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2015), Station Museum in Houston (USA, 2015), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (Belgium, 2015), Fernando Pradilla Gallery (Spain, 2015), Museum Barjola (Gijón, Spain, 2014), Villa Empain (Belgium, 2014), Museo del Barrio (Nueva York, USA, 2012),  B.P.S.22, (Charleroi, Belgium, 2010), La Térmica (Málaga, Spain, 2013), Castrum Peregrini (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012), Círculo de Bellas Artes  (Tenerife, Spain, 2012), Galerie Suty in París (Francia, 2009), Museum of Contemporary Art of Taipei (Taiwan, 2009) or the Sculpture Quadrennial (Riga, Latvia, 2012).

He has participated in art fairs such as Volta (Nueva York), Volta Basel (Basel), ARCO (Madrid), Untitled (Miami), Art Brussels (Bruselas), FIAC (París), Armory Show (New York), Arte Fiera (Bologna), Art BO (Bogotá), MACO (México) or Art Wynwood (Miami).

His Works appear in the books Los Dictadores - el poder subversivo del arte- (2015) from Adonay Bermúdez, Art & Agenda – Political Art and Activism, edited by Robert Klanten, Matthias Hübner, Alain Bieber, Pedro Alonzo and Gregor Jansen, Spanish Contemporary Art  1992 -2013 (2014) from Rafael Doctor Roncero,  La Era de la Ferias by Paco Barragán (2008) or Arte Emergente en España (2006) by Manuela Villa.