Monica Bonvicini

Hamburg

Desire Desiese Devise. Zeichnungen 1986–2012 is the first comprehensive exhibition of illustrations, collages and text-based works by Monica Bonvicini. The Italian artist is famous for her expansive and occasionally monumental installations in which she explores the structures of power and seduction in the architecture that surrounds us. Moreover, in the course of some 25 years Bonvicini has created an impressive portfolio of illustrations, which she uses to intensify the relationships of everyday and political visual worlds that are so characteristic of her oeuvre.

Her illustrations and collages, which were often conceived as drafts for her installations, offer a personal insight into how she explores art history, architecture and sexuality, among other things. Her diverse interests are reflected in her use of different styles and materials: quotations from the history of art and architecture, from poetry, music and advertising masterly interweave notions of elegance and Punk. For Bonvicini illustration was a way of engaging directly and personally with a subject. The artist hardly ever features in her videos or photographs and has professional manufacturers produce and build her sculptures and installations, but the drawings she does herself.

Sammlung Falckenberg

Spetember 7th – November 18th, 2012
Wilstorfer Straße 71, Tor 2
21073 Hamburg-Harburg
Germany

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