Bei Cosy – 2017 in Amsterdam

Datum: 16.06 2017 - 08.07 2017
Uhrzeit: Ganztägig
Ort: Rongwrong, Binnen Bantammerstraat 2, Amsterdam, Niederlande

Although many of the patrons of Bei Cosy are today celebrated figures or have faded into obscurity – together they represent an essential yet fragile history, a complex interwoven web of art, sex, inclusion/exclusion, gender identity and sociability. It is these moments that become ‘lost’ or forgotten within mainstream historical accounts. This new Bei Cosy is intended to critically address the role social spaces play in our social, sexual, artistic and political lives – creating a new context for particular histories and archival material to emerge amongst new works and an intergenerational community of artists.

The concept of Bei Cosy is by Philipp Gufler and Richard John Jones in collaboration with Cosy Pièro, Sands Murray-Wassink and Laurie Cluitmans.

Fingerbekenntnisse

Invited Artists:

AA Bronson, Johannes Büttner, Johanna Gonschorek, Philipp Gufler, Caspar Jade Heinemann, Fabian Hesse, Richard John Jones, Evelyn Taocheng Wang and Sands Murray-Wassink.

This series of newly commissioned works depart from an infamous series of drawings that Pièro made for her bar that were seized under obscenity laws in Munich in 1963 and were most likely destroyed. The drawings depicted cats with women’s heads and huge breasts engaged in a variety of acts with one another. Through the commissions, the invited artists have been asked to respond to these lost works of Pièro as a gesture of solidarity whilst also reinventing and reimaging these works from their own perspectives.

These Fingerbekenntnisse are shown together with a new work by Pièro in the bar designed specially for Rongwrong by Johannes Büttner, Gufler and Jones.

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Laurie Cluitmans, JL Dianthus, Philipp Gufler, Vera Hofmann, Richard John Jones, Sands Murray-Wassink, Julika Rudelius, Camille Wills, Geo Wyeth.

Events hosted by invited artists will be held every Friday and Saturday evening at Bei Cosy.
More informations:
special website: http://barchive.website/