Traces of Absence
Paris’ Alberta Pane Gallery is presenting the new work of Fritz Panzer in an exhibition called Doubles.
Panzer’s wire sculptures represent exactly that: they are the doubles of objects, created in a delicate line of wire like the translation of a sketch into reality, or three dimensional representation of a drawing.
Panzer reveals the sculptural qualities of objects by emphasizing the outer frame of everyday things – a piano, a car, a suitcase – in which the wire describes the outlines and our minds will inevitably recognize and fill the empty spaces within the lines. There is in place a complex game between the visible and the invisible, the absence and the revelation.
Traces of Absence
Paris’ Alberta Pane Gallery is presenting the new work of Fritz Panzer in an exhibition called Doubles.
Panzer’s wire sculptures represent exactly that: they are the doubles of objects, created in a delicate line of wire like the translation of a sketch into reality, or three dimensional representation of a drawing.
Panzer reveals the sculptural qualities of objects by emphasizing the outer frame of everyday things – a piano, a car, a suitcase – in which the wire describes the outlines and our minds will inevitably recognize and fill the empty spaces within the lines. There is in place a complex game between the visible and the invisible, the absence and the revelation.
Objects are drained and emptied; the lines that clearly describe the object on one side begin to curdle on the other, like a memory that fades or a dream that one cannot quite remember. The objects begin to disappear in an emotional tension of seizing and letting go.
Doubles runs from 8 September until 13 October at Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris.
Photos courtesy Galerie Alberta Pane.
Galerie Alberta Pane
14 rue Saint-Claude
75003 Paris