Manuel Burgener – Summary Silent Sound 12 x 17 cm

12 x 17 cm

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as a stimulus to urban renewal

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Published by MACK (London)

Manuel Burgener – Summary Silent Sound 12 x 17 cmSummary by Swiss artist Manuel Burgener is a companion piece to his 2018 Manor Prize show at the Kunsthaus Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. The idea behind this artists book is to undertake a fundamental examination of the purpose of an exhibition catalogue. It asks whether an artwork, especially a sculpture, can be documented at all in the form of a readable depiction. Burgener claims that photographic documentation fails to encompass the ambient space