Manfred Pernice "pezzi"

Anton Kern Gallery

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German sculptor Manfred Pernice connects aspects of architecture, urban planning, and everyday esthetics with questions of time, place and politics to create an oeuvre that is held together by a complex web of formal and thematic threads. Appropriately described as a “liquid narrative,” the building blocks of Perniceʼs language feel immediately familiar. His sculptures present themselves as existing within an everyday context recognizable to the viewer as, say, containers, displays, tables, platforms, stages or entire living rooms. Sculptural elements are cut from plywood and similar composite materials, painted or raw, allowing insight into their own physical construction, and in combination with found objects, such as books, photographs, brochures and particularly ceramics, constitute Perniceʼs distinctly recognizable language.

In his fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Pernice presents ten related sculptures. They are built as freestanding
tables or wall-boxes; curtains and colored Plexi glass reveal a variety of objects culled from the artistʼs place of work
in Berlin and from recently visited Cuba. Some of the archival materials relate to German painters August Macke and
Konrad Klapheck, or to Treptower Park, an area of Berlin that features a Soviet war memorial built to the design of
the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the 50,000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle in Berlin
in April–May 1945. It served as the central war memorial of East Germany. Pernice recomposes materials of various
origins for a new aesthetic value and returns them into the context of art. Anyone working with sculpture today,
according to Pernice, also faces "questions of the day before yesterday." Todayʼs expanded concept of sculpture
with its simultaneously available materials, forms and histories always leads back to classic questions of sculpture:
How is something built or formed, and which decisions were made?

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Schedule

from May 17, 2012 to June 30, 2012

Artist(s)

Manfred Pernice

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