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ERNST CARAMELLE

at Lawrence Markey
March 4–April 3, 2004

Lawrence Markey is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition of work by Ernst Caramelle. This will be Caramelle’s fourth solo exhibition at Lawrence Markey Gallery.

While the coherent feature of Ernst Caramelle’s art may be a stubborn defiance of adhering to any one style or modus operandi, his work is often site specific. In this exhibition Caramelle will execute one of his site- specific gestures of ephemera: wall painting. Caramelle’s interventions are at once richly colorful, geometric abstractions, and illusionistic, expanding architectures; part sensuous “painting”, part deceptive spatial verisimilitude. Caramelle also exhibit a sequence of two-dimensional paper constructions which were originally made as “site specific” works for the publication Parkett, in 1991. These paper works are formally similar to the wall painting, but here Caramelle toys with their “visitor” status to the gallery both is space and time, a sort of physical spoonerism. The works function independently and artfully, and at the same time send out feelers for a conceptual flip-flopping between now and then, or here and there, or this and that.