Mathieu Mercier 2005

Galerie van Gelder Planciusstraat 9 / A 1013 MD Amsterdam Netherlands (city map) Send E-mail tel +31 20 62 77 419 www.galerievangelder.com

14 oktober - 18 november 2006

OPENING: Saturday 17.00 - 19.00

"Regarding facts" is a show about artists who make use of found objects and ideas, which are in a recognisable way integrated or used as a principle for a work. In most cases it is concrete found altered object ('objet trouvé simplement assisté', so to say) and in some cases it is about a fact one has to live with. The young Italian artists group Laboratorio Saccardi will show a supermarket shopping bag of Albert Heijn from which a painting pops out saying 'Albert Heijn it sucks brain'. Sylvie Fleury's work 'Life can get heavy Mascara shouldn't' could belong to the latter. As well as her racing suit with custumizer. Nicolas Chardon paints square targets and geometrical constructions and simultaneously follows the lines of distorted stretched printed fabrics. David Sgrigley has his poster 'News/ Nobody likes you', so to say an idea as a fact. Or is it the other way around?

DAVID SHRIGLEY (GB)
JCJ VANDERHEYDEN (NL)
JOËLLE TUERLINCKX (B)
JOHN M ARMLEDER (CH)
JOHN TREMBLAY (USA)
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON (IS)
LABORATORIO SACCARDI (I)
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM (NL)
MATHIEU MERCIER (F)
MYNE SØE-PEDERSEN (DK)
NICOLAS CHARDON (F)
OLIVIER MOSSET (CH/USA)
SYLVIE FLEURY (CH)