Alix Le Méléder
Alix Le Méléder (b. 1955, Boulogne sur Seine, France) lives between Burgundy and Brittany, France. She studied sculpture at Beaux-Arts, Paris and L'Atelier César from 1974 to 1979. In 1990, the building where she had her studio burned down. She lost all her works. In 1992, Alix met Shirley Jaffe who introduced her to Galerie Fournier in Paris.
Alix Le Méléder was exhibited in numerous exhibitions at Galerie Fournier in 1995, 1997, and 2001-2002. In 2004, she joined Galerie Zürcher and was exhibited regularly in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2010 with solo exhibitions and several group exhibitions in Paris and New York. In 2020, the Chateau de Tours (Tours, France) presented a retrospective of her paintings from 1987 - 2011, taking up an entire floor of their exhibition spaces. She was also recently included in a group exhibition at Zürcher Gallery NY with Tom Doyle, Kazuko Miyamoto and Lynn Umlauf.
Zürcher Gallery has published a catalog on the occasion of Le Méléder’s retrospective: 94 pages, paperback with color reproductions of works 1987 - 2011 and essays by Philippe Dagen and Joe Fyfe. Available for purchase at Zürcher Gallery, NY and by mail for customers outside of New York City.
Notable exhibitions:
1998 Alix Le Méléder, Maison d’art contemporain de Chailloux, Fresnes
2003 Voir en peinture, Le Plateau/Frac Île-de-France
2004 Alix Le Méléder, Le 19 CRAC, Montbéliard
2004 Le corps, son image, ses représentations, Maison d’art contemporain de Chailloux, Fresnes
2011 Reverie, curated by Stephen Westfall, Zürcher Gallery, NY
2016 Alix Le Méléder, Traces, peinture, La Maison des Zervos, Vézelay
2018 Sortie du catalogue du Festival « Piano aux Jacobins », Toulouse
2018 Alix Le Méléder, Galerie Pixi, Paris (curated by Gwénolée Zürcher)
2019 Pause, Atelier du Hezo (avec notamment Geneviève Asse)
2020 Alix Le Méléder - Peintures, Chateau de Tours, France (Retrospective)
Collections:
TiA Collection, USA
Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Fondation Colas, Paris, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Bureau du Patrimoine, Paris
Le Bon Marché, Paris
Essays:
Foreword by Philippe Dagen
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Press
2022
Alix Le Méléder’s: LES GRAND ROUGES by Joe Fyfe for The Brooklyn Rail.
The Theater of Simplicity by John Harber for harberarts.com.
2021
Alix Le Méléder’s Rules of the Game by Gwenaël Kerlidou for Hyperallergic.
2020
Alix Le Méléder, peintre de l’effacement au château de Tours by Delphine Coutier for La Nouvelle République.
Alix Le Méléder, les fins de la peinture by François Jeune for art absolument.
2016
Alix Le Méléder, Traces, peinture by Jean Daniélou, Librairie éditions Tituli.
2008
Alix Le Méléder, peintre du geste by Anne de Coninck for Connaissance des Arts n°262.
2007
Alix Le Méléder at Galerie Zürcher by Joe Fyfe for Art in America.
L’œvre au rouge, Faire du vide un visage, by Patrick Autréaux for Alix Lé Méléder, Peintures, Château de Tours, Exhibition Pamphlet.
2006
Peindre pour ne pas disparaître by Philippe Dagen for Alix Le Méléder, Exhibition Catalog, published by Galerie Zürcher.
Alix Le Méléder et ses rimes en rouge by Philippe Dagen for Le Monde.
2005
L’abstraction hypnotique de Le Méléder by Philippe Dagen for Le Monde.
Alix Le Méléder, vu de l’intérieur by Alexandre Grenier for Pariscope nº1914.
Lettre au peintre by Gianni Burattoni and Franck Delorieux for L’Humanité.
2004
Conversation avec Alix by Marianne Alphant for Alix Le Méléder, Exhibition Catalog, Centre régional d’art contemporain de Montbéliard.