ART CITIES:Vienna-HIPPIES USE SIDE DOOR. THE YEAR 2014 HAS LOST THE PLOT.

 

The largest exhibition of works by Cosima von Bonin in Austria is presented at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien of Vienna. The exhibition “HIPPIES USE SIDE DOOR. THE YEAR 2014 HAS LOST THE PLOT.”, includes more than 100 works by von Bonin ranging from her earliest to completely new works.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien Archive

This retrospective exhibition at Vienna shows that her work all these years, beyond painting that added in the course, which covers the expressive needs, focusing primarily on installations in space, this installations characterize her first of work presented in Athens at the Factory in the group exhibition ”Push-Ups”, in 1997. While the music added to the course is to discuss and debate was between artists and music. In her works, von Bonin turns on a spinning machine that spits out refererne after reference the pop and high culture and also to art history. The machine has quite clearly lost the plot. Very personal emotion enter via the side door, and like ghosts they play their games with the legacy of other artists… Von Bonin’s congregation of stuffed animals, march into the Vienna exhibition like her own entourage. Cosima von Bonin’s works frequently connote a sense of inabillity, incapacity and even polintlessness. These works stand for the artist’s own decisions about her art, her counteraction to the supposed active heroism of the male artist and her immunity to all demands for continuous new artistic outpout. It is a hard sarcastic comment towards the relations of the two sexes in the art society and their neutralization through a voracious system!

Info: “HIPPIES USE SIDE DOOR. THE YEAR 2014 HAS LOST THE PLOT”, Curator: Karola Kraus, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna, Duration: 24/10/14-18/1/15, Days & Hours: Mon: 14:00-19:00, Tue-Sun: 10:00-19:00, Thu: 10:00-21:00, www.mumok.at/en