Nils Erik Gjerdevik møder Albert Mertz

31.01.2003 - 07.03.2003
Stalke Gallery is please to announce the opening of its new premises at Vesterbrogade 184. After more than ten years and 150 exhibitions in the "underground gallery" in the backyard we have chosen to treat ourselves and our artist with a smaller but very charming space with big windows facing the street.

With Stalke's newly opened space at Kirke Sonnerup Gallery and the ongoing series of Stalke Out of Space projects our idea is to run Stalke Gallery in Copenhagen as a more classical gallery in the future. Nevertheless we have made room for a permanent project space which will present different projects parallel to the other exhibitions at Stalke Gallery.

We are excited to present a dialogue between Albert Mertz and Nils Erik Gjerdevik as out opening show. Mertz passed away some thirteen years ago, but his many-sided work with its unique combination of humorous pop-cultural sensibility, experimental drive, conceptual acuteness and spiritual dedication still seems full of vitality and keeps inspiring contemporary artists and current discussions on art. Thus, last time Stalke Gallery showed Mertz  it was one of his students from the Art Academy, Jes Brinch, and Søren Andreasen who curated the exhibition.

Now it is Nils Erik Gjerdevik's turn to hang Mertz' work on the walls of Stalke Gallery. Or to be more precise on the walls that Gjerdevik has painted directly on. In his continuous exploration of the magic and complex universe of the surface has worked with murals before, but this exhibition is the first time that they provide the background for another artist's work. Gjerdevik shows lesser known work by Mertz from the 70s and 80s and he will create a both visual, conceptual and physical space for a dialogue between the two artists, in which the preoccupation with color, compositional embarrassments and doubt as a sign of health will be among the topics discussed.

The exhibition is realized with the help of Lone Mertz.


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