Bank 's(h)it on it'

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When people sit on these chairs, they literally turn their backs on each other. With S(h)it on It, Richard Hutten metaphorically captures one of the most dominant factors in 20th-century Italian history: fascism. The text ‘Nie Wieder’ was scratched onto a seat by a visitor to an exhibition in Bremen. Hutten decided to repeat the text in English and to carve it in more deeply still, thereby making the audience’s emotional response a part of the object. [text 2023]

	This object is now not on display in the museum
Title	Bank 's(h)it on it'
Artist	Richard Hutten (ontwerper) (Zwollerkerspel 1967) Droog Design (promotor)
Dating	1994
Material and technique	ijzer; MDF, verf
Object number	28181
Object type	bank
Acquisition	aankoop 1997
Dimensions	hoogte 73 cm breedte 110 cm diepte 110 cm
Inscriptions and markings	opschrift onderzijde (aluminium plaatje): Richard Hutten P.O. Box 6005-3002 AA Rotterdam, tel. 010-4770665, fax 010-4377891 date 1994 s/no [...] (serienr niet ingevuld) beeldmerk onderzijde (aluminium plaatje): gebogen mannetje opschrift op stoel (ingekrast): Never // again / Nie // wieder
Remarks	De bank is samen met bank "The Cross" gemaakt voor de Abilareil Tempo in Verona. Met de banken wilde Hutten de dominante factoren in de 20ste eeuwse Italiaanse geschiedenis symboliseren: katholicisme en Fascisme. De teksten 'nie wieder' en 'never again' zijn op de zitting gekrast tijdens een tentoonstelling in Bremen. Hutten besloot toen de tekst nog dieper in te krassen en zo de heftige reacties van het publiek deel van het ontwerp te maken.
Documentation	Droog & Dutch Design : from product to fashion : the collection of the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, [voorw. Sjarel Ex]. [samenst. Ida van Zijl, José Teunissen], (Utrecht, 2000), p. 67 afb. in kleur Droog Design 1991-1996, Ida van Zijl ; foto's Maurice Boyer, (Utrecht, 1997), pp. 56-61, met afb. Droog Design : spirit of the nineties, ed. by Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker. introd. by Paola Antonelli. R. Ramamkers, G. Bakker (red.), (Rotterdam, 1998), p. 27, afb. in kleur
Exhibitions	Stoel neemt stelling, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2023 - 2024 Vroeg Droog, Erasmushuis, Jakarta, 2018 - 2019 Vroeg Droog, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2017
Persistent url	To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.82157C85-04CC-49CA-9071-8DAEEEA12F3E
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