Aron Mehzion
Aron Mehzion (* 1970 in Asmara , Eritrea ) is a German-Eritrean visual artist and innkeeper . He lives and works in Düsseldorf .
Life
Mehzion left his native land after the death of his father at the age of five. Together with his mother, a trained pattern maker, and his three siblings, he fled to Germany via Sudan, Egypt and Italy. After graduating from the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium with the Abitur in Düsseldorf , he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1993 to 2000 . There were Michael Buthe , Jannis Kounellis and Gerhard Merz his teachers.
Since he could not make a living from artistic work alone, he opened his first bar in 2002 in the “Barockschlösschen” at the Ehrenhof in Düsseldorf (Haus Ehrenhof 3) for the “bright green” exhibition, which he called Baron and understood it to be the “living space of artists”. When the premises of the restaurant were rented to the E.ON Group , Ulrike Groos , the then director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , and Rita Kersting , the then director of the Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia , offered him a room in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf as an alternative . In 2004 he founded the Salon des Amateurs , a lounge with academy students Stefano Brivio and Detlef Weinrich , which artist friend Andreas Gursky donated black armchairs to furnish. The bar developed - also through the Approximation Festival initiated in 2005 together with Volker Bertelmann - into a well-known night club for live acts of electronic and new improvisational music.
As a visual artist, Mehzion deals “with physical and mathematical questions of mirror symmetry, taking into account considerations about four-dimensional spaces”. He is particularly interested in the temporal dimension of objects, which he pursues with impressions and impressions on table installations.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2010: Aron Mehzion , Tina Miyake Showroom, Düsseldorf
- 2016: Schaf und Ruder / Wool and Water , group exhibition in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf with works by Lili Dujourie , Isa Genzken , Astrid Klein , Mischa Kuball , Reinhard Mucha , Gerhard Richter , Elaine Sturtevant and Rosemarie Trockel
- 2016: Inverresion , Galerie Marzona, Berlin
- 2018: parallélisme élémentaire , Galerie Marzona, Berlin
- 2018: Four Rooms with a View , Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
literature
- Gregor Jansen (Ed.): Schaf und Ruder - wool and water . Distance, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95476-179-1 , p. 123.
Web links
- Aron Mehzion , short biography on the portal danielmarzona.com
- Aron Mehzion , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helga Meister: "Salon des Amateurs": Aron Mehzions Kunstsalon als Lebensraum , Westdeutsche Zeitung , November 25, 2016, accessed on December 29, 2019
- ↑ Carl Friedrich Schöer: lover's home port. Salon des Amateurs in the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle . eiskellerberg.tv , October 6, 2011, accessed on December 29, 2019
- ↑ Aaron Coultate: Salon Des Amateurs: The post-kraut Haçienda , Resident Advisor , January 16, 2015, accessed December 29, 2019
- ^ Thomas H. Green: Oddball and Tribalistic: Salon Des Amateurs is the Club Night in Its Own League. A forward-thinking shelter from Dusseldorf's pissed-up nightlife . Mixmag , August 30, 2017, accessed December 29, 2019
- ↑ Galerie Marzona receives VBKI prize. Ceremonial awarding of the VBKI Prize 'Berlin Galleries' , website in the portal vbki.de ( Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists ), accessed on December 29, 2019
- ↑ Schaf und Ruder / Wool and Water , press release of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2016 ( PDF )
- ↑ Inverresion , galeriemarzona.com , accessed December 29, 2019
- ↑ Aron Mehzion - parallélisme élémentaire @ Daniel Marzona . Art News Portal, September 5, 2018, accessed December 29, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mehzion, Aron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Eritrean visual artist and innkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asmara , Eritrea |