Jonathan Monk
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Jonathan Monk's work includes a wide range of media including installations, photography, film, sculpture and performance. His tongue-in-cheek methods often recall procedural approaches typical of 1960's Conceptualism, but without sharing their utopian ideals and notions of artistic genius. Instead, Monk grounds his conceptual approach in more commonplace concerns, that of personal history, his family, even pets, whilst still alluding to the types of systems and processes that artists such as Sol LeWitt employed so rigorously. While much of his work is gently playful and tinged with nostalgia for the late 1960's, it also challenges the idea of purity in modern art, demystifying the creative process and suggesting alternative models for how art and the role of the artist can be interpreted.Lives and works in Berlin.
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Jonathan Monk Press
The distance between my mother and my sister
By Adam Carr
Published in: Um-Kehrungen (About-Turn), Kunstverein Braunschweig.
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By Adam Carr
Published in: Um-Kehrungen (About-Turn), Kunstverein Braunschweig.
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Jonathan Monk Exhibitions
Jonathan Monk Public Exhibitions
CURRENTSculpture as Time: Major works. New Acquisitions
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
4 March 2010 – 1 August 2010
AGO
Seconde main
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris
25 March 2010 - 24 October 2010
MAM Paris
Bilder über Bilder
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
26 March 2010 - 27 June 2010
MUMOK
PAST
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex
Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
through May 30
Bass Museum of Art
Leon D'Oro, (with Douglas Gordon) curated by Mirta D'Argenzio
Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, Italy
20 February 2009
Fondazione Morra Greco
Time Between Spaces
Palais de Tokyo and Musée d'art Moderne, Paris, France
29 May - 24 August 2008
Palais de Tokyo
Jonathan Monk: Continuous Project Altered Daily
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
14 October - 4 December 2005
ICA
Jonathan Monk Images

Chinese Crackers, 2006 16 mm film projection Dimesions variable

What is Seen is Described, what is Described is Seen (Rothko) Version 1, 2006 Oil on canvas 183 x 165 cm

What is Seen is Described, what is Described is Seen (Rothko) Version 1, 2006 Oil on canvas 183 x 165 cm

Second Hand Daily Exchange, 2006 Wax hands 20 x 10 x 10 cm

Nine Measurements in White, 2005 Painted aluminium Dimensions variable

Gallery Opening Hours, 2005 Neon sign 64.3 x 178 x 6 cm

Big Ben Piece, 2003 35mm Slide Projection with timer Dimensions variable

Lost Days, 2002 16mm film loop Projection size 9.5 x 8 cm

Sol Lewitt: 100 cubes Cantz/ Slow slow quick quick slow / front to back back to front / on its side, 2000 16mm film loop Dimensions variable

Closed, 1998 Black & white phototgraphic print 34 x 41 cm

No. 88 (Tenerife), 1992 Oil on canvas 85 x 57 x 4.5 cm
Jonathan Monk Contact
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