Monica Bonvicini

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MONICA BONVICINI: BOTH ENDS
Foreword by Rein Wolfs. Text by Ursula Maria Probst, Vanessa Joan Müller.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865608734 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 6/30/2011
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MONICA BONVICINI
DUMONT BUCHVERLAG
ISBN: 9783832192211 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 2/28/2010
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MONICA BONVICINI: THIS HAMMER MEANS BUSINESS
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865607188 | US $53.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2010
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MONICA BONVICINI: CUT
Edited by Stefan Bidner.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865603784 | US $38.00
Pub Date: 7/1/2008
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MONICA BONVICINI
Artwork by Monica Bonvicini. Edited by Dan Cameron. Contributions by Susanne Von Falkenhausen.
HOPEFULMONSTER
ISBN: 9788877571069 | US $18.00
Pub Date: 10/2/2000
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Monica Bonvicini

Monica Bonvicini: Both Ends

Foreword by Rein Wolfs. Text by Ursula Maria Probst, Vanessa Joan Müller.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Monica Bonvicini’s work conducts a continual dialogue between bodies and architecture. Frequently, Bonvicini eroticizes and/or psychologizes this relationship, through sculptures, installations and video works in which people are seen plunging their bodies into walls as if passing through them, or rubbing their genitals on the corners of a wall. The props of sadomasochism are often invoked, in a mattress made of black leather belts and screen installations of hanging chains. Bonvicini’s humor is laced with a confrontational edge that compels her to explore, for example, the architectural-erotic politics of construction workers, who are disenfranchised from the authorship of their physical labor, but who are also notorious purveyors of male aggression towards women. If Bonvicini has a credo, it is best expressed by her oft-cited spraypainted wall text, “Architecture is the ultimate erotic act/carry it to excess.” Both Ends provides a survey of works spanning the past decade.

Monica Bonvicini

Published by DuMont Buchverlag

Confronting the overlap between patriarchy and architecture head on, Monica Bonvicini (born 1965) has attracted international attention with her video “Wallfucking” (1995)—in which a naked woman rubs her genitals against a wall protuberance—and with her site-specific installations using chains, steel and leather. “Architecture is the ultimate erotic act,” asserts an installation in this monograph; “carry it to excess.”

Monica Bonvicini: This Hammer Means Business

Published by Walther König, Köln

Monica Bonvicini's energetic excavations of power and sexuality have earned her a powerful reputation worldwide. As the title of this volume confirms, her rhetoric is matched only by the work's powerful visual impact. This Hammer Means Business is an artist's book cum mini-retrospective that illustrates her works of the past ten years, and gives documentation for exhibitions and residencies.

Monica Bonvicini: Cut

Edited by Stefan Bidner.
Published by Walther König, Köln

In order to view the images in this concise artist's book, one must cut the Japanese-bound pages by hand. Within are reproductions of Monica Bonvicini's large-format black-and-white drawings dealing with issues of revolt and insurgency via text quotations from Anne Sexton, Anaïs Nin and Julia Kristeva.

Monica Bonvicini

Artwork by Monica Bonvicini. Edited by Dan Cameron. Contributions by Susanne Von Falkenhausen.
Published by Hopefulmonster