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Artist Statement:
During the past two decades
Pierre Mertens (1953, Antwerp,
Belgium) has been creating
works of art in different
materials, disciplines,
dimensions and formats. He did
not do this to experiment.
Influenced by each particular
circumstance he searched for
the right approach, format and
discipline, all of which
contributed to context.
This resulted in a pictorial
language which is stratified,
diverse and sometimes playful.
His work is difficult to
classify. If a suitable label
or art category is found, he
will retaliate in his next
work of art. Always looking
for new images and challenges,
he creates stratified and
complex work, but due to the
context in which he is
working, these images are
clear and readable.
He has made the gap between
Art and Society his workplace.
He considers what he can add
to the habitat of ordinary
people. He gets to know each
situation where he wants to
develop a project. With a
strong personal involvement he
creates and presents images in
the very environment that he
has explored. He uses
materials, objects and symbols
that have relevance in this
context.
He calls this ‘contextual
art’.
This is the way Pierre Mertens
exhibited with an Alzheimer
patient in a ...
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Artist Galleries:
Target Foundation, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
0031102339939 e-mail
webmaster@targetfound.nl
Ram Gallery/Foundation,
Blekerstraat 10, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
FRAME Contemporary Projects,
Brussels, Belgium
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Artist Reviews:
A cut-and-paste festival
'Ruins of the Future,' a
collection of contemporary
art, is billed as a Peruvian
international exhibition. But
don't buy a plane ticket -- it
only exists online.
By Suzanne Muchnic, Times
Staff Writer
This dusty commercial center
of southern Peru may be
clogged with traffic ...
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Collections:
Private and public
collections, Holland, Belgium,
France, Italy and US...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Exhibitions for Pierre Mertens:
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'Ruins for the future', 1th september- 6th january 2004, Arequipa, Peru
'Look at Me' , 1th february - 9th march 2003 , FRAME Contemporary Projects, Brussel, Belgium
'For Sale' , 19th january – 9 th march 2003 , RAM Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
· Project with unemployed foreign women in training centre, 2002 –2003 Genk (B)
· Bordello text in Braille on the window of a brothel. Antwerp (B) 2000 & 1
· 12 installations in various locations including the Plantijn college. Antwerp (B)
1999
· Art and Justice in the courthouse of Cambrai (F)
· ‘For sale’ Selling the gallery of Niggendijker Groningen (NL)
· Laywers Robe , Cambrai 1999
· covering street light with feathers Cadier en Keer (NL) 1996
· Portraits of children ,an exhibition with Children from Willebroek (B) 1995
· Intervention on tyre blow-outs along the Antwerp motorway 1995 (B)
· "The Image of Reality", composition in the cemetery of Plovdiv 1993 (Bulgaria)
· "Charabang" Photographic interventions in immigrant areas of Borgerhout 1993 (B)
· M Gallery "Composition found" transmitting an interior of an East European apartment to the Gallery , Berlin 1992 (Germany)
· Sreet painting and intervention in the entrance hall of Theater Stu Krakow (Poland)
· Cooperation with a lady suffering from Alzheimer, with installations in an old
people's home in Alzheimer Tandems Wommelgem(B) 1989
· 'Affichage Happening', intervention on a billboard in Gent, Museum of Contemporary Art Gent (B)
· The Hidden Art Collection in the town hall of Zoersel covered with painted cloths 1989 (B)
· Grass sculpture on a grass- plot, Brunssum 1988 (NL)
· 1987 Gate painted in the fields in Assenede (B) Intervention in the hall and staircase of 'IL VENTUNO' Hasselt 1987(B)
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