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COSIMA VON BONIN
Title | The Bonin/Oswald Empire's Nothing #03 (CVB's Fatigue Raft &MVO's White Rabbit Song),
2010
Media |Wool, yarn, fleece, stuffing, balsa wood, armature, electric wiring, MDF, lacquer, cardboard,
plasma screen, DVD player, 2CDplayers, 2sound dome speakers, audio cable,
metal fence, rubber chew toy, 2copies of the Moritz von Oswald Trio Verticle Ascent
(double album and record sleeve), 'Risk' board game, pom poms, silver painted skateboards,
70s touch lamp, socks, 4lacquered floor pedestals, 2lacquered tables; raft:
approx. 38 x390 x380.5cm, table 1: 81.3x123 x120cm, table 2: 78x55x60cm
Artist |Cosima von Bonin, *1962, Mombasa, Kenya
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany
Gallery |Petzel
Stand Phone +41 616995090
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
US-New York, NY 10011 |535 &537 West 22nd Street
Phone +1212 6809467 |Fax +1 212 6809473
info@petzel.com |www.petzel.com
Directors |Andrea Teschke, Sam Tsao, Jason Murison
Artwork Description | The Bonin/Oswald Empire's Nothing #03 (CVB's Fatigue Raft &MVO's White
Rabbit Song) is acollaborative installation created by Cosima von Bonin and
techno pioneer and electronic music composer Moritz von Oswald (aka the
Oswald Empire). This collaborative approach fuses von Bonin’s sculptures with
Oswald’s compositions. The large sound and sculptural installation is set upon
an elevated glossy pink platform. Upon this stage sit von Bonin’s soft and hard
sculptures as if in aclub listening to techno beats pumped through headphones
and cone-shaped speakers.
The work employs autobiographical references without attribution or explanation
as ameans of extending agesture –ofhomage, of empathy, ofparody. The
viewer isinvited to participate inadouble-edged strategy of pop cultural disorder:
at once becoming part ofthe installation’s performative elements as well as the
skeptical voyeur.
The Bonin/Oswald Empire's
Nothing #03 (CVB's Fatigue
Raft &MVO's White Rabbit Song),
2010