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Pushing, distorting, bending, pressing: the work of Berlin-based artist Philip Wiegard is as subtle as it is brutal. His reliefs and installations are often created out of materials collected from construction sites or buildings undergoing renovation - old cinema seats, folding chairs, bar stools, counters or floorboards. In the process of being deconstructed, the dismantled, sawed-apart and re-assembled furnishings lose their three-dimensionality. Wiegard uses the technique of foreshortened perspective from painting and applies it, ad absurdum, in a ratio of 1:1, to sculpture. Reduced from its original volume by half, his "Bar" (2004) appears robbed of its functionality and materiality, as a foreshortened relief, which "represents" a bar when seen from the front, an optical illusion that disappears with every movement of the viewer.

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carnival vs. lent, 2006

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