ause of Arrest: HockeyAt the finals of hockey season in Clifton, New York, eight adults were arrested for assault and battery. A fight broke out concerning a game on the ice – a tournament match among 9 year old children - that had led to parents fighting it out in the stands. Hockey fights are usually part of the game, inside the rink. They are about the performance of punching and pulling and drops of blood shed for the triumph of winning. Chris Hanson & Hendrika
Sonnenberg’s new book for onestar press is Fruit Bowls and Hockey Fights. In a match up as responsive as Ed Ruscha’s Various Small Fires and a Glass of Milk, Hanson & Sonnenberg combine the quiet subject of still lives with the rowdy mayhem of sports events. Both the fruit and the fights are caught in suspense – the fruit captured eternally ripe inside installations, and the fights, frozen forever in action without a clear winner. The photos reveal intricate choreographies – the strategic arrangement of plaster fruit pieces is as complex as chance photos of elbows and hockey sticks in action. Hockey season may be over but Hanson & Sonnenberg continue the fight – pitting art and reality, installation and performance, fruit and hockey. onestar press is now taking your bets on these matches.
Rachel K. Ward, New York.

C. Hanson & H. Sonnenberg
Fruit Bowls and hockey fights
Published February 2004

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