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Mark Manders: Fragments from Self-portrait as a building |
 
Room, constructed to provide persistent absence
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In June and July 2002, The Galleries at Moore presented “Mark Manders: Fragments from Self-portrait as a building.” The exhibition featured recent works from an ongoing project which explores drawing as a sculptural process and the metaphysical essence of thoughts, words, and images. Organized by the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, this was the first solo museum exhibition for Manders in the United States.— Manders has been working on his Self-portrait as a building since 1986—an ongoing investigation that evolves with each subsequent presentation. The “building” itself is a fictional architecture created as a portrait of a fictional persona sharing the artist’s name and described by the artist as equally neurotic and poetic. Each installation or reconfiguration of this “mental space” becomes a container for discrete objects that are physically and figuratively linked in a seemingly offhand manner by their placement in a particular room and the resulting observed or felt relationships to objects around them. A bronze dog rests its head on a pile of 4,000 drawings, the headless lump of a figure lies on an iron bed with a blue ball-point pen suspended above an opening in its chest, five ordinary teabags quietly form a sentence in the corner-these juxtapositions are charged with the inventive potential necessary to the process of interpretation that is at the heart of Manders's project. The aim is not to create a convincing narrative description of an event, place, thing, or person with each installation; rather, Manders’s work explores distinctions that only exist in thought—between nameable things and things we cannot name, between thought and object—and the metaphysical processes at work within those distinctions. Manders was born in 1968 in Volkel, The Netherlands. He has had solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2000); the Project Room, Drawing Center, New York (2000); Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, Germany (1998); Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (1994). He has participated in group exhibitions including Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem (2001); Venice Biennale (2001, 1993); “Territory, ” Tokyo Opera City Gallery (2000); XXIV São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (1999). His work will be included in Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, 2002, and this fall at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mark Manders lives and works in Arnhem, Netherlands.
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