Manfred Pernice: Haldesleben · Bibette Headland · Hotel Hangelar: Kat. Museum Ludwig Köln

**Deep drilling by Manfred Pernice**This complex book by Manfred Pernice goes back to an exhibition at Museum Ludwig Cologne in 2007. At that time, he had combined the early work -»Bibette Headland&« (1999) with »Haldensleben&« (2005), a work further developed specifically for the exhibition, and the »Hotel Hangelar&« (2007), exhibited for the first time back then. These three large and, to some extent, accessible sculptures refer to the architecture of bunkers, airport towers and small town neighborhoods. Today, after a decade, it is clear that these three sculptures occupy a central -position in the work of the artist. They illustrate Pernice's long-standing examination of the historical and socio-political contexts of -architecture and the aesthetics of everyday life. At the same time, his sculptures, despite their references to reality and history, exist as independent objects, as -objectification, that present themselves in a productive reciprocal relationship of the familiar and the foreign, turning aesthetic experience into insight. The book displays, for the first time, the varied text and image material of Manfred -Pernice's research and -presents it together with a survey of the realized works of art at Museum Ludwig Cologne.