Indepth Arts News:
"Manfred Pernice"
2000-12-17 until 2001-02-11
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art
Rotterdam, ,
NL
On the top floor Witte de With
presents the first solo exhibition by the German artist Manfred Pernice (1963) in the
Netherlands. The exhibition is constructed as a total installation in which existing
works are combined with new elements to form a 'cosmology of the harbor' - an
important theme in Pernice's work. In the first place this is characterized by
architectural sculptures referring to structures of metropoles with their streams of
traffic, transportation of goods and spending patterns. More specifically they refer to
the changing character of the city of Berlin where Pernice lives and works.
The sculptures are constructed from simple materials like wood and chipboard and
consist of composite forms of boxes and containers. They function as an installation
which the viewer can walk through but also serve as pedestals or columns on which
posters or photographs, newspaper reports, videos and light flashes find a place.
The drawings and models preceding the installations which fill the space are often
parts of the whole. Although Pernice takes great pains to integrate his installations
with the space, his work can not be called site specific. The installations are
composed long before they are shown in a specific space. Yet they do not have a
definite character; the strength of the installations is on the contrary to be found in
the unfinished state of the works. They contribute to a process in which each work
has its own place. Some of the works - the larger ones in particular - can be adapted
time and again to fit each space and to evoke a new experience.
The exhibition in Witte de With incorporates three large installations. 1a-Dosenfeld
'00 (2000), which could recently be seen in a solo exhibition of Pernice's work in the
Kunsthalle Zürich, is spread out in the various rooms with its combination of low
columns and containers. Bad, bath (1999) which was shown earlier in the Anton
Kern Gallery in New York for which it was originally produced, takes on a new
appearance in Witte de With's specific exhibition rooms. 109 (1998) is reconstructed
and supplemented with new elements for the exhibition. In Witte de With the works
are presented within the theme of the harbor. The desolate atmosphere
characterizing that area is enhanced by the many container-works selected by
Pernice, such as Bell II (1998) and Block (1997). One work in the exhibition forms a
beacon in the vast container landscape. O. Dose (2000), realized very recently, was
situated on a roundabout in Hamburg until a short while ago. The heavy sculpture
which gives out a light flash provided the viewers with a place to return to time and
again.
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