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Details of object number: 2015
Title:Stonewall III
Object name:installation
Collection:Museion Collection
Created by:Bonvicini, Monica (artist) (Venice, 1965-02-03)
Production date:2002
Description:Ed. 2/3
Installation bestehend aus einer Wand aus galvanisierten Stahlträgern, 18 Ketten (je 3 m lang), 12 Ketten (je 2 m lang) und einem Einsatz von zerbrochenem Sicherheitsglas.
Installation bestehend aus einer Wand aus galvanisierten Stahlträgern, 18 Ketten (je 3 m lang), 12 Ketten (je 2 m lang) und einem Einsatz von zerbrochenem Sicherheitsglas.
Hist. crit. notes:"Stonewall (2001) was the first piece that incorporated broken glass. Bonvicini did it shortly after the riots during G8 summit at Genoa, which was gated off to the public: “I was also thinking about Cady Noland’s gates and public architecture with its accessibility and its monumentality as a State-related power symbol. I wanted to show that even if you have a gate in front of you, that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something with it or something to change in.”
Bonvicini has gone on to repeatedly attack the male-dominated order in her exhibitions: in 2002, she made the installation Stonewall III, a cell-like corridor of glass sheets and steel bars with the sentence “Architecture is the ultimate erotic act carry it to excess” sprayed behind it, like graffiti on the wall. The sentence stems from the theoretician Bernard Tschumi and was originally part of an ad for modern building in 1976. In Bonvicini’s work, it became a swan song to the modernist utopias – a chamber of horrors fashioned in tandem with Michel Foucault’s diagnosis of the control society." (cf. purchase documents, Museion)
Bonvicini has gone on to repeatedly attack the male-dominated order in her exhibitions: in 2002, she made the installation Stonewall III, a cell-like corridor of glass sheets and steel bars with the sentence “Architecture is the ultimate erotic act carry it to excess” sprayed behind it, like graffiti on the wall. The sentence stems from the theoretician Bernard Tschumi and was originally part of an ad for modern building in 1976. In Bonvicini’s work, it became a swan song to the modernist utopias – a chamber of horrors fashioned in tandem with Michel Foucault’s diagnosis of the control society." (cf. purchase documents, Museion)
Dimensions:
- Stone Wall III height: 2 m
Stone Wall III width: 12.3 m
Stone Wall III depth: 1 m
Physical description:Galvanisierter Stahl, 18 Ketten (3 m), 12 Ketten (2 m), Sicherheitsglas