MONICA BONVICINI
SATISFY ME

EMSCHERKUNST.2010 EINE INSEL FÜR KUNST, ESSEN, GERMANY
29 MAY – 18 SEPTEMBER 2010

Monica Bonvicini has created enormous letters that spell out the demand “SATISFY ME. Placed on top of the landfill, they confidently crown the plateau, like an American billboard. Owing to their reflective steel surface, they can be seen from quite a distance.

Galvanized steel pipes, concrete, steel, paint, Alu Dibond panels, clamps, 1750 x 300 x 300 cm
© Images Roman Mensing / artdoc.de

FEATURED ARTIST

MONICA BONVICINI
Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965 in Venice, Italy) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied in Berlin and at Cal Arts, Valencia, CA. From 2003 – 2017, she was Professor for Performative Arts, Spatial Strategies, and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Beginning in October 2017 she assumed the Professorship for Sculpture at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany. Bonvicini has earned several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1999), the National Gallery Prize for Young Art, Berlin, Germany (2005), and Oskar-Kokoschka Preis, Vienna, Austria (2020).

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