Cosima von Bonin
10 October 2010 - 09 January 2011
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COSIMA VON BONIN’S FAR NIENTE FOR
WITTE DE WITH’S SLOTH SECTION, LOOP # 01 OF THE LAZY SUSAN SERIES, A
ROTATING EXHIBITION 2010 – 2011
At Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, the German artist Cosima
von Bonin will present an exhibition featuring new works around the
notion of sloth and fatigue.
Cosima von Bonin’s first major solo presentation in the Netherlands will
occupy the entire Witte de With. With her typical laconic humor, von
Bonin will create a constellation of new and existing works. From
oversized stuffed animals to sewn paintings, from pastiches of
minimalist sculptures to recreations of shop display systems, her work
blends formalism and Pop, oscillating between seriousness and fun,
weighed down with melancholy or fizzing with critical wit.
The exhibition’s title quotes the Italian expression dolce far niente
that suggests the sweetness of doing nothing, a pleasant relaxation in
carefree idleness. Here the expression takes on a certain irony, as this
is in fact the first show in a sequence of major institutional
exhibitions, which means that the artist herself will be doing quite the
opposite of nothing. The sequence of exhibitions is subtitled: THE LAZY
SUSAN SERIES, A ROTATING EXHIBITION. This refers to the tabletop
appliance, the Lazy Susan or rotating disk that appears in many
restaurants and is used to present an array of dishes. The idea of a
rotating exhibition differs from a traditional traveling show in that
despite certain similarities, with each rotation or loop visitors are
served a slightly different dish.
Loop # 01: Witte de With, Rotterdam (9 Oct 2010 – 2 Jan 2011)
Loop # 02: Arnolfini, Bristol (Feb – Apr 2011)
Loop # 03: MAMCO, Geneva (Jun – Sep 2011)
Loop # 04: Museum Ludwig, Cologne (Sep – Nov 2011)
The exhibition at Witte de With is curated by Zoë Gray & Nicolaus Schafhausen.
Publication
The exhibition at Witte de With will be accompanied by a monographic
publication, Cosima von Bonin, Source book 9 by Witte de With
Publishers. It will feature an extended introduction by Zoë Gray; a text
by Nicolaus Schafhausen; an installment of a science fiction story by
Mark von Schlegell; an interview between Cosima von Bonin and Daffy Duck
scripted by Dirk von Lowtzow; a text by Mami Kataoka about animals,
idlers and tricksters; photographs from the exhibition; and the re-print
of Cabinet magazine’s Sloth Section from their Spring 2008 issue,
featuring texts by Daniel Rosenberg, Christopher Turner, Laura Nahmias
& Nicholas Nauman, Marina van Zuylen, William Justice, and an
interview with Pierre Saint-Amand by Sina Najafi.
Design by Kummer & Herrman, Utrecht. Language: English. Release date: November 2010.
www.wdw.nl
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