Exhibition catalogue, Museum Ludwig Cologne, edited by Barbara Engelbach
Text (German/English) by Barbara Engelbach, Yilmaz Dziewior, Kasper König and a wide range of facsimile material
200 p. with 345 colour and 60 b/w illustrations, 20-page text insert
Format 23 x 20 cm, cloth binding embossed with dust jacket
29,80 €
This multi-layered book by Manfred Pernice, which can now finally be published, goes back to an exhibition at the Museum Ludwig in 2007. At that time, he combined the early work "Bibette headland" from 1999 with the work "Haldensleben" from 2005, which was specially developed for the exhibition, and the sculpture "Hotel Hangelar" from 2007, which was exhibited for the first time at that time. These three large, partially accessible sculptures refer to the architecture of bunkers, airport towers and small town estates. Today, ten years later, it is clear that these three sculptures occupy a central position in the artist's work. In them, Pernice's long-standing exploration of the historical and socio-political contexts of architecture and everyday aesthetics is condensed. At the same time, despite their references to reality and historical content, his sculptures assert themselves as independent objects, as objectifications that confront us in a productive interrelationship between the self and the other, thus turning aesthetic experience into cognition. This book is the first to present the diverse text and image material from Manfred Pernice's research, together with photographs of the artworks realised at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
Exhibition:
Museum Ludwig Cologne, 20/4 - 30/7/2007
