MUNICH.- CURVATUREROMANCE is the first museum presentation of the large-format metal sculptures completed during the last four years by the American artist John Chamberlain (*1927). The show also marks the start of the AMERICAN SUMMER program in the Pinakothek der Moderne, on view from July 7 through October 23, 2011. As early as the late-1950s Chamberlain created a sculpture for the first time that made use of colored steel parts from a car that was in the backyard of his friend Larry Rivers. He thereby found his Carrara – a working material that was to become as natural for Chamberlain, as marble was for sculptors of the Renaissance. Hammer and chisel were replaced by a scrap metal press which the artist uses – still, to this day – to compress and stretch, fold and bend his material, assembling the individual parts piece by piece, in a process of adding-on and taking-away again, until “it fits” (JC). Chamberlain