Artforum, May 1st, 2004
MANFRED PERNICE
ANTON KERN GALLERY/STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
In Berlin-based artist Manfred Peruke's recent show, art disentangled itself from, and then remerged with, modular furniture: Dinged plywood benches each formed of three open cubes and positioned against a gallery wall led into more elaborate "banks" in the center of the space, some built of concrete with inset tiles, others of partially painted particleboard, scored or cut as though halfway to assembly. The show was called "Commerzbank," after the advertisement from which Kurt Schwitters cut his famous word fragment "Mer...
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