Ruckriem / Böll-Peilung Andere &
Manfred Pernice
Published by Peill Stiftung, Düren, 2008, 96 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 22.4 cm, German
Price: €28

Since the early 1990s, Berlin-based artist Manfred Pernice has created sculptural vessels with scales, materials, and aesthetics derived from the worlds of architecture, shipping cargo, and mass packaging—these works serve as complex, open-ended meditations on the increased segmentation, containment, and, to use Pernice’s term, “canning” of objects and space. His seemingly slapdash sculptures are often juxtaposed with sketches, maquettes, photographs, text and, more recently, video to create systems of meaning.

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