Limited Edition 12” maxi-single vinyl (Staatsakt Records, Berlin) available at
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Romantic/Soundtrack/Disco meets Fetish/Architecture/Collage
Monica Bonvicini has created a striking vinyl art object—strictly limited to 200 editions—in response to two new songs by Berlin Pop outfit La Stampa. Her cover-montage of dirty feet on a divan greet “Fille D’Officier”. And a submissive naked man dangles from a four-poster bed (including a workers’ lunch break) for “Bel Innocent”: pitch-perfect visualizations of songs that add new dimensions to the La Stampa universe of sounds and ideas; a touch of film soundtrack, Bosnian reminiscence, French cool, offering a foretaste of the bands second album due to come out in 2012.
The Maxi Single is simultaneously a piece of music and an art object; at 69 euro in a signed and numbered edition of 180:
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and a special edition of 20 individually treated, signed and numbered pieces at 1500 euro each:
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La Stampa are Günter Reznicek (aka Nova Huta, synth), Thomas Hug (p), Jons Vukorep (dr), Jörg Heiser (git) und Jan Verwoert (b).
2010 saw the release of La Stampa’s debut album Pictures Never Stop—reactions ranged from outright hostility (“they visit the private views to which we are not invited”, Andreas Müller on Berlin’s Radio Eins) to “best German Pop band” (Peter Richter in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung). Max Dax commented in Spex: ” … copy-pasted straight from New Wave Eighties and sent through a time-tunnel to the current Postpostmodern. Only that thanks to complex, reference-rich, topical lyrics everything is more fresh, intelligent and glamorously apt than with many other international bands”.
Monica Bonvicini work has been shown in many exhibitions around the world. She received the Venice Golden Lion in 1999, and the New National Gallery Prize Berlin 2005. Her work was included in the Venice Biennale 2011, and she will realize a major public art project for the London Olympics in 2012; her drawings will be shown at Deichtorhallen Hamburg Sammlung Falckenberg from August 2012.
