{"title":"Monica Bonvicini","description":"\u003cp\u003eMonica Bonvicini (b. 1965, Venice) is an Italian-German artist whose installations, sculptures and texts examine architecture as an instrument of power, gender and institutional control. Emerging from CalArts in the early 1990s, her practice engages directly with the built environment as a site of exclusion and coercion, working with construction materials, signage and spatial intervention to expose the ideological structures embedded in apparently neutral space. She was awarded the Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Biennale and participated in Documenta 11 in 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"monica-bonvicini-platz-machen-berlin-1994","title":"MONICA BONVICINI — Platz machen, Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk, Berlin, 1994","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in Berlin in 1994, \u003cem\u003ePlatz machen\u003c\/em\u003e — literally making space, or more pointedly make room — is one of the earliest publications of Monica Bonvicini’s career. Produced through the Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk’s Künstlerinnenprojekt Ohne Kompromiß, it belongs to Bonvicini’s 1993\/94 participation in a programme established specifically to give women artists the professional infrastructure and visibility routinely denied them within the art world. Individual artist publications were central to Goldrausch’s model: not documentation after the fact, but objects designed to put an artist and her work into circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Bonvicini, the timing is unusually good. She had studied in Berlin and at CalArts and was only beginning to exhibit internationally; her first Berlin Biennale appearance would come in 1998, followed a year later by the Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Biennale. \u003cem\u003ePlatz machen\u003c\/em\u003e therefore catches the work before institutional recognition hardened into reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the vocabulary is already there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book reproduces \u003cem\u003eI Muri 1\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Muri 2\u003c\/em\u003e, made at CalArts in 1992: false walls, doors, partitions and architectural interventions that turn supposedly neutral space into something obstructed, controlled and psychologically loaded. Other photographs move through commercial interiors and advertising architecture, including a Marlboro-branded environment where corporate image, wall and exhibition structure begin slipping into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat later became central to Bonvicini’s practice — architecture as an instrument of power; the politics of who occupies space; construction materials, gender, labour and institutional behaviour — is already being worked through here in remarkably direct form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat makes the title feel almost like a manifesto in retrospect. \u003cem\u003ePlatz machen\u003c\/em\u003e. Make room. Clear the space. In 1994, it describes both what the work physically does and the conditions surrounding its production: a young woman artist entering an architectural and institutional field still overwhelmingly structured by men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoldrausch sharpens that reading. The programme described its early objective as developing strategies of professional self-assertion for women artists, while its artist publications functioned as portable introductions to practices beyond Berlin. Bonvicini’s book is therefore both an early document of the work and part of the machinery through which that work began travelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe object itself is beautifully restrained: small format, spare typography, generous white space and photographs treated almost like architectural evidence. The aerial photograph on the cover turns the city into plan and surface; inside, walls, doors and rooms repeatedly interrupt the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished five years before Venice made Bonvicini internationally visible, \u003cem\u003ePlatz machen\u003c\/em\u003e catches the proposition while it was still being built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 × 15.5 cm. 48 pages; 23 illustrations. Softcover. Text by Harald Fricke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good vintage condition. Light handling and minor age-related wear to covers and edges; interior clean and well preserved overall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk Berlin e.V.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54268202221906,"sku":"BONVICINI-GOLDRAUSCH-CAT-1994","price":175.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bonvicini_Monica.Platzmachen.1994.jpg?v=1786776461"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/monica-bonvicini.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}