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Concern for the sculptural erection, height and constitution, of which Pernice so at pains to make apparent, the stacking as its major form of construction, complete upon attainment of a height passable for sculpture. They build a thing only to stop short of figuring out its use only to start over, a manic hesitation, ideas half concluded. Rather than a cold opacity of so many of the Contemporary's blank objects, Pernice's instead denote an empathetic shyness, a slovenliness evocative of its care for self-comfort. Its an old trick now, an affected reticence annoying, exhausted, that Pernice continues these endless cans that are still somehow so endearing.
See too: Manfred Pernice at Galerie Neu
