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Metallic Sunsets
Jonathan Monk, Paris, 2 February - 22 March 2023

Metallic Sunsets: Jonathan Monk

Past exhibition
Jonathan Monk, Metallic Sunset with Additional Information VI, 2022
Jonathan Monk, Metallic Sunset with Additional Information VI, 2022
Jonathan Monk, Metallic Sunset with Additional Information VI, 2022

Jonathan Monk

Metallic Sunset with Additional Information VI, 2022
UV-cured print on alu DiBond, aluminium, wood, mixed media
126 x 166 x 17 cm
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Jonathan Monk, Metallic Sunset with Additional Information XIV, 2022
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Jonathan Monk, Metallic Sunset with Additional Information XIV, 2022
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Jonathan Monk, Metallic Sunset with Additional Information XIV, 2022
Jonathan Monk’s (b. UK, 1969) ‘Metallic Sunset with additional Information’ is a series which was created for the exhibition 'Metallic Sunset' at Dvir gallery. Formed by a single image of...
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Jonathan Monk’s (b. UK, 1969) ‘Metallic Sunset with additional Information’ is a series which was created for the exhibition 'Metallic Sunset' at Dvir gallery. Formed by a single image of the Sunset Boulevard in which each piece is combined with different objects, the combination is made in a associative way with a wink to art history to the likes of artist like Haim Steinbach’s Mike Kelley.
British artist Jonathan Monk replays, recasts and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art by variously witty, ingenious and irreverent means.
Speaking in 2009, he said, “Appropriation is something I have used or worked with in my art since starting art school in 1987. At this time (and still now) I realised that being original was almost impossible, so I tried using what was already available as source material for my own work.”
Through wall paintings, monochromes, ephemeral sculpture and pho- tography he reflects on the tendency of contemporary art to devour ref- erences, simultaneously paying homage to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner, while demystifying the creative process.


“Metallic Sunsets is a new series of digital UV cured print assemblages, based on None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip, a group of photographs I made in Los Angeles in 1997, inspired by Ed Ruscha’s famous book Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966).
I recently tried to remember exactly what motivated me to walk along the Sunset Strip and photograph the streets leading away from this once iconic boulevard...
This is a kind of introspective retrospective, a behind the scenes where the camera looks at the process of making a picture.
I was living in Hollywood at the time – Ed Ruscha was still the godfather of dry point and shoot photography, along with more conceptually motivated John Baldessari et al – Los Angeles felt like it contained the human side of ideas-based art... this always felt ironic when thinking about Los Angeles... cars & freeways, movie stars & lost dreams...
But this was a kind of photography I could relate to or at least mimic in a straight forward point and shoot kind of way.
What did encourage me to take my father’s somewhat broken 40-year-old camera, two rolls of 35 mm black and white film, no light meter and head towards the sunset hoping for the best?
My research continues...”
Jonathan Monk
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- 'Metallic Sunset', solo show, 2023, Dvir Gallery Paris
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