NOTFORYOU
Monica Bonvicini
Monica Bonvicini
NOTFORYOU, 2006
Installation with galvanized steel letters, 40 W-light bulbs, computerized light program
99 x 400 x 14 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria, 2006-2007
Photo: Michael Strasser, 2006 | © VEGAP, Madrid, 2026
Monica Bonvicini
NOTFORYOU, 2006
Installation with galvanized steel letters, 40 W-light bulbs, computerized light program
99 x 400 x 14 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria, 2008
Photo: Niki Lackner | Universalmuseum Joanneum | © VEGAP, Madrid, 2026
- Date
- 2006
- Medium
- Galvanized iron letters, steel structure, light bulbs, DMX controller, light program
- Dimension
- 99 x 400 x 14 cm
- Credit
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
- This artwork is part of the donation and long-term loan from TBA21 to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Details
Monica Bonvicini’s light sculpture NOTFORYOU is a confrontation and a paradox: I see something that at once informs me that it does not mean me, but in so informing me, it addresses me in the most direct fashion: by aggressively blinking the message into my face, into the public space, more directly than any advertisement could ever do.
NOTFORYOU therefore questions the expectation that a work of art is inherently intended for viewers, or even for potential buyers.
NOTFORYOU refers to situations of exclusion and separation, as well as to linguistic structures of power, which control territorial access, rights of residence, circulation, and personal freedom – this sculpture develops its potential for confrontation at precisely those sites that seek to appropriate it.
(Text used as wall label in the exhibition "Atopia", MAZ, Guadalajara, 2014)
