Bartha Contemporary presents „A Well of Wishes“, a solo exhibition of new works by German artist and art director Mike Meiré, opening November 15th, 2025 and continues through December 6th.
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The show debuts a suite of new bronzes from his acclaimed Eternal News Series, each transforming a newspaper page into a radiant sculptural relief.
Cast in shimmering bronze, nickel silver, and aluminium these works preserve the fragile structure of torn and folded newsprint — at once ruinous and refined.
Their surfaces are punctured, scarred, and worn, appearing as if excavated from a future ruin. Yet rather than dwell on loss, they offer resilience: like a headline turned into a blessing, they reframe disruption not as trauma but as the possibility of endurance and renewal.

The newspaper is the ultimate symbol of immediacy — fragile, disposable, and quickly replaced by the next edition. Here, these fleeting carriers of information are fossilised and transformed into enduring relics.
By translating ephemeral media into lasting material, Meiré confronts the paradox of our information culture: headlines consumed and forgotten within hours, yet cast here as indestructible memory.

In an age of relentless news cycles and cultural turbulence, these bronzes stand as quiet affirmations. They invite us to slow down, to recognise beauty in fragility, and to imagine permanence in what was once fleeting. In this way, I Wish You Well becomes both a gesture of care and an archaeological study of the present — turning the unstable into the eternal, the disposable into the monumental.

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