The Absence of Mark Manders Author:Douglas Fogle, Mark Manders Dutch artist Mark Manders, born in 1968, has been devising sculptural installations since the late 1980s, exhibiting them as a fragmented self-portrait in the form of imaginary rooms. A veteran of solo exhibitions at such respected American venues as The Drawing Center in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum and The Art Institute of Chicago, he has... more » established himself as one of the most distinctive and independent artists on today's international sculpture scene. Beginning with the exemplary piece Self-Portrait as a Building, created in 1986, Manders' entire oeuvre can be understood as a large-scale attempt to translate his own existence and development into wordless, associative memory spaces. Chimneys, brick walls, oversized model rats, tables, chairs, newspapers and a plethora of small, personal objects are tweaked in scale and amassed as "still lives with broken moments." This is the most significant appraisal of his work to date.« less