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Canessa Gallery

November 2 - November 30, 2012

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708 Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94111
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The Prosthetic Temple
A sculptors homage to the  Sun Temple at Konarak, Orissa, India Opening Reception Friday, November 2, 6-8pm Artist Talk Wednesday, November 14 @ 6pm In the early 1960s 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.                                                                                               rbsculpture.com