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Marc Manders
Parallel Occurence
Edited by Sean Kissane
May 2005
Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 1903811430
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications
88 Pages. Illustrated. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2"
$56.50 Hardback
Mark Manders is a young Dutch artist who has received
considerable international acclaim for his sculptural installations, drawings,
and artist books, which offer an abstracted meditation on notions of portraiture.
The majority of his work consists of deceptively simple, re-made versions
of found objects and familiar things. The artist's uncannily accurate, detailed
re-creations of material facts
from
the everyday world are often discomfiting and functionless versions of their
originals. As such, they take on a primarily symbolic role.
Parallel Occurrence presents 10 works which Manders has been working on since
1986. He has been working on Self-Portrait as a Building, an ongoing investigation
that evolves with each subsequent presentation. Since 1990 he has presented
exhibitions of installation-based sculptural works which are fragments of
his 'self-portrait' designed for imaginary rooms.
His sculptures also frequently lie on the ground: from the smooth fox with
mouse attached to the large Etruscan-like clay figures, all look like the
sleeping victims of gravity.
Exhibition
Irish Museum of Modern Art - Dublin
16th March - 29th May 2005
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