Artist: Cosima von Bonin (Kenya)
Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022
Photo Credits: Barbara Picci
“Cosima von Bonin came of age as an artist in the 1990s amid the storied art scene in Cologne. In her practice, mixed references to art history, popular culture, and music are seen in tandem with a destabilising approach to craft and domestic activities. Many of her recent installations are populated with casts of cartoonish fabric characters – fish, whales, mushrooms, dogs, rockets – whose endearing appearances conjure a range of contradictions: delight and horror, softness and rigidity, and humour and sorrow…”
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Categories: Arte & curiosità dal mondo, Opere
Barbara Picci 