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2011 - Sculpture (Sculpture)

Jonathan Monk

Jonathan Monk re-fashions and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art through witty, ingenious, and irreverent means. Through wall paintings, monochromes, ephemeral sculpture, and photography, Monk reflects on the tendency of contemporary art to canabilize references, while paying homage to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner. Monk’s art practice does not follow any specific style; it doesn’t contain any common characteristic to identify his work at first glance. The amount and variety of his works poses questions about what supports them. Demystifying the creative process, Monk often employs appropriation, humor, irony, and anecdote in his work. To enter an exhibition of works by Jonathan Monk is like taking part in a treasure hunt, made up of digressions and space-time manipulations.

Colors:

• humor.n.04
• converge.v.01
• unidentifiable.a.01
• treasure_hunt.n.01
• variation.n.05
• light.n.02
• appropriation art
• art in art
• contemporary conceptualism
• contemporary pop
• british
• born 1969
• contemporary artist
• conceptual artist