 |
Jonathan Monk
Jonathan Monk
Twelve Angry Women, 2005
Courtesy Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
 enlarge
|
Combining homage with humour, Monk introduces a personal
and irreverent approach to the intellectual strategies and dry
aesthetic of Conceptual Art of the 1960s and 1970s. Twelve Angry
Women is titled after the 1957 film, 'Twelve Angry Men', in which
a jury struggles to decide the fate of a man accused of murder.
Monk has pinned a different coloured drawing pin to the ear of
each woman depicted in these anonymous portrait drawings from
the 1930s, found in a flea market in Berlin. Through this simple act
he attaches the work to the wall and claims another artist's work
as his own, questioning notions of authenticity and authorship.
Biography
Born in 1969 in Leicester
1988–1991 Glasgow School of Art
1987–1988 Leicester Polytechnic
Selected Solo Exhibitions
|
2005
|
Continuous Project Altered Daily, ICA, London
| |
2004
|
Sculptures, Neons and Drawings, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
| |
2003
|
Time and or Space, The Swiss Institute, New York
Projected Works, Lisson Gallery, London
| |
2002
|
Roundabout, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
|
Selected Group Exhibitions
|
2005
|
Slide Show, The Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
| |
2004
|
Play List, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
| |
2003
|
Adorno, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
|
Lives and works in Berlin
and Leicester
| |
|
