This edition contains two vinyl 7″ singles with music by Doctorella and Justus Köhncke as well as two exclusive prints designed, handnumbered and signed by Cosima von Bonin. Limited Edition of 300 only.
You can’t really fully understand the work of Cosima von Bonin without looking at her collaboration with other artists. Even when invited to produce a solo exhibition, von Bonin rarely shows up without the input of her friends, either through music, lyrical fragments, fashion accessories, cameo performances, or, and, or…
And let’s be clear, the musicians get the von Bonins thing. Back in 1995 for the “1. Grazer Fächerfest” show, the Cologne art gang von Bonins brought along was so numerous that The Sixpack, the gallery’s nearest late-night drinking den, had to pretty much shut down to recover afterwards. No stranger to a musical collaboration, the opening of von Bonin’s latest Cologne exibition, „If? If?“, (Galerie Daniel Buchholzm) featured the much-respected American art school collective The Red Krayola kicking out a stunning live show. Also most of the releases of the Hamburg based avantgarde-pop-project Phantom/Ghost are illustrated by works of von Bonin, as was the debut record of jazz-electronica-band Moritz von Oswald Trio.
There is so much to see and experience in the world of Cosima von Bonin. Scratch the surface if you like, but then go beyond the initial sweet pop appeal and you find the journey starts for real. There is a need to dig mole-like through her vast framework of references. Probably her most popular work to date contains the gigantic stoff mushrooms seen in „Meisterwerke zeitgenössischer Kunst“, featured on German tv arts programme Kulturzeit, which focuses on the most important art pieces of our time. These mushrooms could be seen as synonym for the art and artists of our time, the process of questioning places, conditions and effects. But then how do you also ‘read’ her gigantic stoff dogs from the last exibition at Kölnischer Kunstverein? Her work poses questions, but escapes easy answers.
The German musician Dirk Von Lowtzow (Tocotronic and Phantom/Ghost) wrote in issue 81 ot the Swiss art magazine Parkett that: „She is not molesting.“ He meant that von Bonin is giving us the freedom to make our own way into her work and its world. There is no expectation here of dull, cold, definitive understandings. There is no right and wrong in looking at her work. Von Bonin is perhaps here to give us the biggest promise of life: freedom.
Edition Fieber is delighted that Cosima von Bonin found time to work on our first edition – especially as she is really busy right now with the preparation of seven exibitions.
Doctorella
A new Indie-Supergroup has formed! Doctorella are tough, comforting songs as well as large dreamscape melodies in a cold world! Blissful-abysmal rocksongs with a certain pop-appeal and exceptionally strong lyrics by the two frontwomen. Their songs take the listener on a trip into the subconscious somewhere between poetry, pain, love and politics. Sandra Grether used to be singer and guitarist of the groundbreaking German girlband Parole Trixi. Kerstin Grether is widely known as a writer who early on in her career published three books with the renowned publishing house Suhrkamp, among others „Zuckerbabys“, the novel-longseller on anorexia and the media. „Lass uns Märchenwesen sein“ („Let us live in fairytales“) is both a protest as well as a love song relating to an old German folksong.
„I am not aware of many songs such as the fairytale-song, that from the first beat onwards march straight towards a morally highflying finale. Whoever is capable of that kind of thing can also do neoimpressionist painting with colours that have only just grown up and are thus extra fresh.“( Dream tomorrows next dream) (Dietmar Dath)
“Dream Tomorrows“
“Lass uns Märchenwesen sein“
Justus Köhncke
The Cologne based producer and dancer Justus Köhncke is one of the most significant artists of the German music scene. He made the indie kids dance with his band Whirlpool Production (along with fellow musicians Hans Nieswandt und Eric D. Clark) back in the early 90s – inspired by DJ Pierre and Sylvester. Solo since the 90s, Köhncke now delivers a very intimate electronic songbook these days, his trademark, hot jackin’ minimal-nouveau-disco.
“Lucienne (Fieber Edit)“
“At Last A Am Free (Fieber Edit)“
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This edition contains two vinyl 7″ singles with music by Doctorella and Justus Köhncke as well as two exclusive prints designed, handnumbered and signed by Cosima von Bonin. Limited Edition of 300 only.
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