German-born, Los Angeles-based Manfred Müller is best known for his installations: church pews in Mexico, painted soot-black and reconfigured so that the seats collide elegantly, or a “desk,” reconstituted from found office materials, jutting out of one window and re-entering through another. His works may defy gravity and usefulness, but never beauty.
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