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21/11/2002

Fernando Bryce

Galerie Barbara Thumm (old location), Berlin

Bryce works in the medium of drawing, in which he unfolds a compendium of the culture of Europe and Latin America in a number of comprehensive series. Many of his drawings are based on found material such as book covers, newspapers, magazines and advertising posters he selects for their general cultural references.


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Vision de la Pintura Occidental

Opening: Friday, 22.11.2002, 6 - 9 p.m.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to Fernando Bryce's second exhibition at Galerie Barbara Thumm.

Bryce works in the medium of drawing, in which he unfolds a compendium of the culture of Europe and Latin America in a number of comprehensive series. Many of his drawings are based on found material such as book covers, newspapers, magazines and advertising posters he selects for their general cultural references. In doing so he unveils important aspects of global politics, economics and art. Bryce refers to this process as "mimetic analysis".

Bryce was represented at this year's Manifesta with "Atlas Peru", a series that consists of about 500 drawings and depicts a chronology of Peru from 1932 to the present by means of newspaper clippings, advertisements and other illustrations.

"Vision de la Pintura Occidental" was shown for the first time at the 3rd Iberoamerican Biennial in Lima. The work consists of 96 drawings and 39 reproductions of famous paintings. They originate in a themed exhibition of the same title that was curated from the collection of the University of San Marcos in Lima - a collection that is entirely dedicated to offset prints of classical works from the history of European painting. The original correspondence and documents that Bryce used as source material for his drawings speak of the establishment and expansion of the reproduction collection that was initiated in the 50s by the Peruvian art historian and journalist Alejandro Miró Quesada with the support of embassies, international museums and Unesco. Thus a concept arises that reflects both an attempt to provide a more democratic approach to culture, and the colonial view of Peru's elite as they regard the much admired Western high culture that was considered a universal model.

With incisive wit Bryce reveals the magnificent beginnings in the 50s, the fulfilment of a pedagogical scheme in the touring exhibitions of the 60s, and the decadence and eventual end of collecting activities as the archeology of an institution that has become obsolete: in the 70s Mona Lisa was toured through Lima by bus. With the rise of an information society, and also on account of Peru's critical social situation and an altered global appraisal of culture, the project became increasingly anachronistic.

Parallel to the exhibition by Fernando Bryce we show an accrochage with works by artists of gallery, among them new works by Turner Prize Nominee Fiona Banner, Mariele Neudecker, Sabine Hornig, Heidi Specker, Hubbard/Birchler and Julian Opie.

Galerie Barbara Thumm
Dircksenstrasse 41, 10178 Berlin
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