Gerhard Merz

Gerhard Merz was born 1947 in Mammendorf near Munich, lives and works in Berlin and Pescia, Italy. Gerhard Merz, who has occasionally been labeled a modern classicist, uses the elements of art -- measurement, form and light --
in a careful reconsideration of modernism. These three prints document the
idea, the architectural plan, and the realized art space at the German Pavillion of the Venice Biennale 1997: brick walls, plaster, fluorescent light -- clarity and blankness. «The beautiful is mute and blank.»