Jonathan Monk: The And Or Space

Thu Nov 13—Sat Dec 20 2003

A image of a astronaut on the moon.

Constantly imagining a gallery as a place where art lives, this autumn the SI is pleased to present a suite of exhibitions that will saturate our multiple spaces, featuring two solo shows in the main space and the lounge but also smaller projects for the new SI rubber bar, the library and the lobby. The two solo shows of JONATHAN MONK and ALEKSANDRA MIR will be complemented by works of younger artists, DECLAN CLARKE, ISABELL HEIMERDINGER and SHIRANA SHAHBAZI.

JONATHAN MONK's exhibition Time And Or Space features a selection of works combining looped 16mm films, slide projections and text pieces. Time And Or Space remains true to its title, exploring the mechanisms of marking points of time and place. Monk’s work is an excavation of nostalgia with a tinge of melancholy and the eye of a clever conceptualist. Opposing urges meet as Monk looks to the past, sampling wistful or whimsical images and appropriating the canons as he sets out to organize his audience to meet again, in the future, with his wall-based text works, called Meeting Pieces. As his viewers we feel an anticipation to remember these proposed times and places because somehow Monk’s future seems as if it could be an ideal combination time and space.

Jonathan presents a suite of works for the SI: a sampling that shows his particular blend of nostalgia, subtlety and clever playfulness. Time becomes both incidental and precious in this special grouping of 16mm films, slide works, wall texts and other covetable ephemera.

Works included in the exhibition:

-Jonathan Monk, Meeting Piece # 13, vinyl letters

- Jonathan Monk, ‘Today is just a copy of yesterday (holiday)’, 2002, Forty 35mm slides, one slide projected each day, each consecutive slide a copy of the previous, courtesy of Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen

- Jonathan Monk, ‘Proposal For Giant Mirrored Balloon’, 2000, mirror and poster, courtesy of Casey Kaplan, New York

- Jonathan Monk, Meeting Piece # 47, vinyl letters

- Jonathan Monk, ‘The distance between me and you’ 2003, 16mm Film loop, courtesy of Lisson Gallery, London

- Jonathan Monk, Meeting Piece # 63

- Jonathan Monk, ‘Today is just a copy of yesterday (Full Moon)’, 2002, Thirty-three 35mm slides, one slide projected each day, each consecutive slide a copy of the previous, projected in reverse order, Collection AGI, Verona, Italy (detail shown above)

- Jonathan Monk, ‘Big Ben Piece’ 2003, Forty-two 35mm slides, each of a postcard of Big Ben, each slide projected once a day for the minute when it tells the correct time, computerized timer and projector, courtesy of Lisson Gallery, London

- Jonathan Monk, ‘Translation Piece’, 2002, 11 sheets of A4 Paper, courtesy of Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels

- Jonathan Monk, Meeting Piece # 27, vinyl letters

- Jonathan Monk, ‘Sol Lewitt A Cube’, 2001, 16mm Film, courtesy of Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

- Jonathan Monk, Meeting Piece # 19, vinyl letters