Canessa Gallery presents

The Prosthetic Temple by Richard Berger

A sculptors homage to the Sun Temple at Konarak, Orissa, India

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Event has passed (Fri Nov 2, 2012 - Wed Nov 14, 2012)
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Galleries, Sculpture

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November 1- 29, 2012

Opening Reception Friday, November 2, 6-8pm

Artist Talk Wednesday, November 14 @6pm

" In the early 1960s Richard Berger was given a book of images of the Sun Temple at Konarak on the eastern coast of India in Orissa, sparking a lifelong obsession that culminated in his visit there in 2001. Since then, he has created two large-scale models of the temple. Berger’s scale models represent, after many years of research, a kind-of reenactment o the portions of the largely ruined temple, particularly the tower that was destroyed centuries ago. These analyses inform Berger’s constructions—montages of kinetic sculpture and drawing—examining the temple as a cultural and societal prosthetic to complete “what’s not there.”

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Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA
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  1. Canessa Gallery
    708 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA