LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in a U.S. museum by internationally renowned artist Monica Bonvicini. Never Missing a Line will be on view through March 25, 2007. Bonvicini first gained international attention in the mid-nineties for works that aggressively addressed the gendered politics of architecture and the built environment. Informed by and furthering the feminist discourse, Bonvicini's work continues to interrogate the imprimatur of architecture, but has more recently focused on the fetishization of art and architecture as well as the tendency in both disciplines to fetishize materials. In its critique, the work simultaneously questions institutional motivations and the way in which the structures of art are determined and/or challenged by the social and physical parameters of the institution. Bonvicini utilizes language in much the same way she uses, or just as often mis-uses, industrial materials: to break open or reinforce the meaning generated by form.

Never Missing a Line is a concise exhibition featuring two text-based sculptures. The word Desire, cut from polished stainless steel and mounted on a billboard-like structure, greets visitors as they enter SculptureCenter's courtyard. The cold, quiet space of the courtyard is almost overwhelmed by the sculpture's sensual, but hard-edged reflective presence. Inside SculptureCenter's large central hall, Built for Crime, a forty-foot long light sculpture, spells out the eponymous phrase. Constructed of shattered safety glass and light, Built for Crime performs like an advertisement. However, the phrase floats without a subject reference. What is built? And what crime is to be committed?

Monica Bonvicini was born in Venice in 1965. She is now based in Berlin. Active on the international art scene since 1995, she has had solo exhibitions at Kunst-Werke Berlin; the Museum of Modern Art Oxford; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Vienna Secession and participated in 14 international biennial exhibitions including São Paolo (2006); Venice (2005, 1999), and Istanbul (2003). Her work is in the collections of many major museums in the United States and abroad. In 2005, she won Germany's prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst (Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art). Bonvicini is represented by West of Rome, Inc. in Los Angeles; and Emi Fontana Gallery in Milan.