Articles written by Eric Mircher

A few years back, I began a project with Eric Mircher, a gallerist here in Paris.  He had written a number of different articles on his eponymous gallery's blog and I proposed to translate his articles into English. The idea at that time was to have these translated articles published by one of the art blogs based in New York, ArtFCity and Hyperallergic, as they were looking for contributors at the time.  This is what our proposal looked like:

The Actors 

Eric Mircher runs his own gallery of contemporary art in the Marais district of Paris.  He writes a blog in French that reflects frankly on the news, exhibitions, and other art happenings here in Paris.
Roy Forget is an American transplant who lives and works in Paris.  Prior to coming to Paris, he lived and worked in New York--in Harlem, in Bushwick, in the West Village, and briefly, in Philadelphia. 

The Proposal 

Selected articles written by Mr. Mircher's on what is happening here in the contemporary art scene in Paris will be translated by Mr. Forget into English, with adjustments made, putting into careful consideration the  New York/American audience of Art F City.  We want to give your readers Mr. Mircher's perspective of the Parisian contemporary art scene but with an English translation and contextualization of the material that only an American and ex-New Yorker can bring.  The articles will concentrate on museum shows, select gallery shows and news from the contemporary art scene here in Paris.  

Despite submitting the proposal a number of times to the New York based art blogs, we did not receive any response from them.  As such, we decided that the English translations would simply accompany the original French articles on the gallery's blog.

I have now received permission from the articles' original author, Eric Mircher, to post my translations of his articles here on my blog.  I learned tremendous amounts while I worked on these translations, not only about the art world here in Paris, but also about French culture in general.  I hope that these translations will add some richness to this blog and I hope that you, the readers, will enjoy the polyphony provided by the translated articles.  

Down below is a list of the articles that I translated and their links.  Many thanks to the articles' original author for allowing me to post the translations -- Merci Eric !

• 50,000 euros, dura lex sed lex
• Anselm Kiefer and the XXL arbriters of elegance
• Final Cut. Edward Hopper
• Hiroshige: the views of Tokaido or the moral geometry of a master
• Bad Influence
• Les Hussarts de l'art: the Michael Warner Collection
• On Boredom (Being an art dealer amongst other things)
• The Pastel-colored country: on the necessity of art
• Distracting (and perverse)  French News or the Retrained (and normative) Japanese News
• Adel Abessemed or the art critic silenced
• In the back court of an art fair like an "aquoiboniste"
• The incontinence of French journalism: the case of de Noirmont
• Ron Mueck, the good client
• Roy Lichtenstein: really one of the greats?
• The "small" collectors