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MANFRED PERNICE
Tiefengarage, 2008. installation view, Culturgest, Lisbonne.
Courtesy of the artist and galery Neu, Berlin. Photography : DMF, 2008.
Les Prairies's artists
Manfred Pernice's installation-like
sculptures call to mind pieces of
domestic or urban furniture. His
architectonic sculptures use cheap
materials such as cardboard,
plywood, chipboard, or concrete.
Certain aspects are designed to
emphasise their modest, even dull
finish – the persistence here of an
aesthetic, created in retrospect, in
East Germany. In 2008 he created
his installation Tiefengarage for
the spaces of the Lisbon Culturgest.
The German title was invented by
Pernice. The adjective tief affixed
to the word garage is intended
to evoke the psychoanalytical
notion of Tiefenpsychologie (depth
psychology). The Tiefengarage is
painted grey to half-way up and
filled with wooden benches and
stools, objects and photographs
and is strongly suggestive of the
aesthetics of underground places
reserved for things not being
used – car park, garage, or cellar.
Psychology is not missing from
this space; its inaccessibility might
symbolise a buried or repressed
subconscious. The frames on the
wall enclose images that are
discernible in spite of the weak
light. They are reproductions of
illustrations and photographs from
the archives of a Czechoslovakian
art student in West Berlin in the
1960s. This uniformly black and
white iconographic assembly
translates the weaving together
of a collective and an individual
subconscious.
H. M. tr. J. H.
Born in 1963 in Hildesheim
(Germany), lives and works in Berlin
(Germany).
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