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2011 - Sculpture (Sculpture)

Jonathan Monk

location: Berlin, Germany
year born: 1969
gender: male
nationality: British
home town: Leicester, United Kingdom

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.


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2005

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Brent Sikkema – Visionary Art Dealer Of Jeffrey Gibson And Kara Walker Murdered
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Kara Walker

Brent Sikkema, the Manhattan art dealer renowned for representing artists such as Jeffrey Gibson and Kara Walker found dead The post Brent Sikkema – Visionary Art Dealer Of Jeffrey Gibson And Kara Walker Murdered appeared first on Artlyst ....

Black Hands, White Cotton
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Hank Willis Thomas

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Shot in black and white and printed on a glittery carborundum surface, Black Hands, White Cotton both confronts and abstracts the subject of its title...

Black Imitates White
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Hank Willis Thomas

2012

Thomas’ lenticular text-based works require viewers to shift positions as they view them in order to fully absorb their content...

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Made in Heaven
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Mark Leckey

2004

In Made In Heaven , we are face to face with a sculptural apparition, a divine visitation in the artist’s studio...

Cityscapes 1 (boats), 2 (woods)
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Hamra Abbas

2010

At first glance, Cityscapes (2010) seems to be a collection of panoramic photographs of the city of Istanbul—the kind that are found on postcards in souvenir shops...

Subject, Silver, Prism
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Brian Jungen

2011

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Made in Heaven
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Mark Leckey

2004

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Cityscapes 1 (boats), 2 (woods)
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Hamra Abbas

2010

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One we are not
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Ryan Gander

2004

Ryan Gander is a collector...

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This Björk-narrated fungi documentary is enough to make you trip
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This Björk-narrated fungi documentary is enough to make you trip | Dazed ⬅️ Left Arrow *️⃣ Asterisk ⭐ Star Option Sliders ✉️ Mail Exit Film & TV Feature Directed by Merlin Sheldrake, Fungi: Web of Life features jaw-dropping time-lapse footage in which fungi germinate like majestic, otherworldly creatures 12 February 2024 Text Nick Chen Fungi: Web of Life 8 The British biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake is to mushrooms what Björk is to music...

Route 1: R for Replicant
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de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas reader
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de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas reader This digital publication was produced as part of the exhibition de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from underwater mountains fire makes islands] , curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel and co-presented by KADIST and Pivô, which continues the curator’s research project, ‘de montanhas submarinas o fogo faz ilhas.’ Released on November 9, 2022, the reader brings together commissioned and translated texts by Félix Servio Ducoudray, Marta Aponte Alsina, Marilia Loureiro, Suely Rolnik, Olivier Marboeuf, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, and Yina Jiménez Suriel...

Indiscreet Units (Maldives)
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Harm van den Dorpel

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Office Voodoo
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In addition to Yang’s signature drying rack and light bulbs, Office Voodoo includes various office supplies like CDs, paper clips, headphones, a computer mouse, a stamp, a hole puncher, a mobile phone charger...

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Mariana Castillo Deball

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Making Chinatown
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Ming Wong

2012

Making Chinatown (2012) is a remake of Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic neo-noir film Chinatown ...

Versions
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Oliver Laric

2012

Oliver Laric’s video Versions is part of an ongoing body of work that has continued to evolve and mutate over time...

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Untitled (Rolled up)
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Jonathan Monk

2003

Untitled (rolled up) , is an abstract portrait of Owen Monk, the artist’s father and features an aluminum ring of 56.6 cm in diameter measuring 1.77 cm in circumference, the size of his father...

Meeting #100
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Jonathan Monk

Meeting #100 is one in a series of text works by Jonathan Monk...

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Foreigners Everywhere (Italian)
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2006

Foreigners Everywhere is a series of neon signs in several different languages...

One Must
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1997

In One Must , an image of a pair of scissors, accompanied by the words of work’s title, poses an ominous question about the relationship between the image and the text...

The Making of Monster
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1996

In Monster (1996-97), the artist’s face becomes grotesque through the application of strips of transparent adhesive tape, typical of Gordon’s performance-based films that often depict his own body in action...

Blind Spencer (Mirror)
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Blind Spencer is part of the series “Blind Stars” including hundreds of works in which the artist cut out the eyes of Hollywood stars, in a symbolically violent manner...