This Hammer Means Business

This new artist's book by Monica Bonvicini is a series of illustrations of her work over the past ten years, counterbalanced by documentation of the places she has worked and exhibited in. A visual essay that enables insight into the 'making' and 'building' of art through a stringent black and white design. With her sculptures, videos, installations and photographs, Bonvicini has long critiqued and deconstructed the presumed neutrality of architecture and modern art. 'I am interested in architecture as a whole. You can, if you wish, avoid people, but you always have to deal with architecture. Memory and identity cannot exist without architecture: it is something indispensable and elementary but at the same time it can develop in virtuous forms of all kinds.' (Monica Bonvicini)