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ANNE
BERNING
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June- 19 August 2007
CAC
Málaga, the centre for contemporary art
run by Málaga City Council, presents the
first solo exhibition at a Spanish museum or art
centre by the German artist Anne Berning. Her
theme is the world of painting and the stereotyped
way in which it is classified in art books and
catalogues, explored through the painted spines
of large books in which the artists appear according
to the pictorial style they represent. The exhibition,
which will be open at CAC Málaga until
August 19, comprises a site specific painting
installation accompanied by a series of other
paintings exploring the same theme.
Under
the title “Encyclopaedic incompleteness”,
CAC Málaga presents this show by Anne Berning,
featuring a series of superb paintings exploring
the way this well-known German artist sees art.
According
to Fernando Francés, Director of the Centro
de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga,
“In her painting, Anne Berning seeks to
provoke a reaction to the phenomenon of the visual
that confronts society today. Anne Berning presents
her work as an open, changing reality in which
parts can be added, moved or removed as the society
surrounding the work advances.”
Taking
as her point of reference the archives of art
history, Anne Berning works with such different
materials as photographs and films. In her view,
today’s art requires a preliminary critical
analysis of non-contemporary art. In Berning’s
own words, her paintings are “a kind of
collection of fragments, contrasts, lists and
parallels.”
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