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She is presenting her work in the Witte de With, Center for Contemporary
Art. The exhibition started on the 10th of October 2010 and will finish on
the 9th of January 2011. It’s a new art exhibition of laziness. Her work is
made from new and old art work pieces, you could see it as a type of pop-
art. Of oversized stuffed animals and cloth sewn together, to ironic
imitations of minimalist sculpture. Cosima von Bonin mix elements form
formalism and abstraction from the pop-art. She balanced her work with
humor and seriousness. The title of the art exhibition is from the Italian
expression ‘Dolce far niente’ which means ‘doing nothing’. On one hand
that sentence is correct because she doesn’t make all her art pieces
herself, some of the art pieces are made for her. Of course she came up
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with the idea but someone else made it for her and put it together. But
still her life isn’t about ‘doing nothing’ right now because she has a lot of
exhibitions in Europe, she needs to work hard for that. The exhibition in
Witte the With opens a whole new world to her in Europe.
Witte de With.
The manger from Witte de With gets a contract from a maximum of six
years. Chris Dercon (1990 – 1995), Bartomeu Marí (1996 – 2001),
Catherina Davis (2002 – 2004) and Hans Maarten van den Brink (2004 –
2006). The new manager from Witte de With is Nicolaus Schafhausen he
started the first of January in 2006 as an artistic and business leader.
Exhibition.
My opinion.
At first when we were in the subway I didn’t know exactly what we were
going to see. I wasn’t very excited because I expected something stupid,
something where our school the Einstein Lyceum would go to. Finally we
were inside and the people split us up into two groups and gave us a tour.
When I saw what was hanging in this exhibition, I tried to keep myself
awake and couldn’t wait to get home. I don’t know what I should think
about Cosima von Bonin. I can’t see her as a real artist because she
doesn’t make her thinks herself, she has special seamstresses who make
her ideas to reality. She wouldn’t be anywhere without her seamstresses.
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I think that her head also very chaotic because she show stuff that looks
unfinished and that could be a sign, that she can’t finish stuff and that she
wants to begin with a new art piece as soon as possible. I can’t
understand her very well and think that she has a different perspective to
the world than I have. I wouldn’t have chosen this exhibition myself to
make a report about but it was a different and eventually a pretty fun
experience in my life. I wouldn’t recommend this exhibition to most of the
people but I know some artistic persons who would like to go here and
would love it with whole their heart.
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