Happy art advisors floating down the Rhine with your belongings in tethered ziploc bags trailing behind season to all who celebrate. Monica Bonvicini, Happiness, 2026, 2 Components lacquer, mirror, aluminum, 150 x 100 cm, via Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Meanwhile, I’m just staring in dazzled awe at the shimmering totality of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery’s Art Basel booth this year. Among the glassy highlights: one of Monica Bonvicini’s mirror text works that simultaneously seduce with your own tinted reflection in a catchy text—Happiness is no Readymade—and unsettle with kerning-induced anxiety. installation view, Monica Bonvicini, I do you, 2022, black foil on alucobond, aluminum trusses, 14.6 x 14.6 m, at the Neue Nationalgalerie, photo: Jens Ziehe via monicabonvicini.net Bonvicini started the series in 2022, the same time she had an amazing show at the Neue Nationalegalerie in Berlin, I do you, that was fronted by a similarly tensely composed and cropped text on a mirror-finish aluminum…
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