Past: Cosima von Bonin

...having attempted and failed to peel the stubborn adhesive from the surface, [the critics] claim, "ah look how stuck together they are!" And admittedly von Bonin's adherence to the commodity - despite every critical attempt to remove it from - is sticky stuff, and eventually one wonders if there is a layer at all, or merely a patch drawn to appear such. And the whole critical art world grouped around attempting to pick quarters painted on the palatial shopping mall floors while above their bent necks the objects transact. The critical establishment hallucinate quarters because they are needed to eat.

The commodity is the form we now think in, and these are the "good" commodities.

Read full:  Cosima von Bonin at Marianne Boesky, Cosima von Bonin at House of Gaga & Magasin III Jaffa, Cosima von Bonin at Friedrich Petzel