Monica Bonvicini | Drill 4 Chastity, 2004 | (for Parkett 72)
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Parkett Vol. 72
Quote from Parkett
“For Bonvicini titles are concrete, practical equivalents or absurd allegories. One way or another, language and built structures are positioned next to and on top of each other, abruptly engaging in blatant acts like the protagonists in a choreographed porn scenario. Fractured quotes and voiceless material mutually transform: it is as though words and sentences were materializing, developing a physical presence on the wall, in the dust, rigidified into fragmented letters; it is as though built structures were, in return, soaking up syntax and signification.”
Jörg Heiser, Parkett No. 72, 2004
Drill 4 Chastity, 2004 (for Parkett 72)
2-part cast, bronze and resin,
4 1/8 x 5 7/8 x 3 1/2” (10,5 x 15 x 9 cm),
Ed. 35/XX, signed, numbered, and dated below.
Very limited availability.
Complimentary shipping.
Artist Document
Monica Bonvicini's "Drill 4 Chastity" for Parkett 72 refers to and expands on Marcel Duchamp's "Wedge of Chastity", which Duchamp had made as a wedding present for his wife in 1954. The work seen here in image 1 is a bronze cast from 1963. The original version from 1954 was made in plaster and dental plastic, making the work look like a tooth set in gum (image 2).
