No Head Man, 2009
Monica Bonvicini
© Bildrecht, Vienna, 2020
Still: Courtesy the artist | Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, 2010
Still: Courtesy the artist | Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, 2010
Loans
Collection
Single-channel video installation, color, sound
6 min 21 sec
The video No Head Man shows an empty white interior with nothing on the walls. Three middle-aged men come into this room, hang around, pace up and down. Their gestures and movements express confidence and self-assurance. They could be financial investors, but they could also be art collectors in a gallery. They maintain a distance from one another, each always occupying one part of the space. As time passes, a kind of arousal seems to build, though there are no external impulses. Finally, one of the three men unzips his trousers and starts to masturbate. As if by command, the three men then break through the walls and the floor with their heads and legs, getting stuck in the drywall panels. The image freezes in a group portrait without heads, the legs of another man erupting from the ceiling. – Excerpt from the text "My Work is not aggressive. Monika Bonvicini on Power and Sexuality" by Johannes Wendland, in Metropolis M, No 4, 2010
PAST LOANS
Public Video Event: WE ARE, EVEN THEY FORGET US
Venue: Museo Experimental El Eco Mexico
Curator: Gabriel Escalante
May 27, 2021 - May 28, 2021
*1965 in Venice, Italy | Living and working in Berlin, Germany
6 min 21 sec
The video No Head Man shows an empty white interior with nothing on the walls. Three middle-aged men come into this room, hang around, pace up and down. Their gestures and movements express confidence and self-assurance. They could be financial investors, but they could also be art collectors in a gallery. They maintain a distance from one another, each always occupying one part of the space. As time passes, a kind of arousal seems to build, though there are no external impulses. Finally, one of the three men unzips his trousers and starts to masturbate. As if by command, the three men then break through the walls and the floor with their heads and legs, getting stuck in the drywall panels. The image freezes in a group portrait without heads, the legs of another man erupting from the ceiling. – Excerpt from the text "My Work is not aggressive. Monika Bonvicini on Power and Sexuality" by Johannes Wendland, in Metropolis M, No 4, 2010
PAST LOANS
Public Video Event: WE ARE, EVEN THEY FORGET US
Venue: Museo Experimental El Eco Mexico
Curator: Gabriel Escalante
May 27, 2021 - May 28, 2021
*1965 in Venice, Italy | Living and working in Berlin, Germany
Monica Bonvicini is an Italian artist. She lives and works in Berlin since 1986. In 2003, Bonvicini was appointed as the Professor of Sculpture and Performance at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. Starting in 2017, she is the new Professor of Sculpture at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In her work Bonvicini investigates the relationship between power structures, gender and space. Bonvicini works intermediately with installation, sculpture, video, photography and drawing mediums. She has installed permanent artworks at the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park in London, the harbour at the Oslo Opera House and the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. Bonvicini was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2012.
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