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press release
Douglas Gordon & Jonathan Monk
January 12 - March 3 2001
Opening Friday January
12 from 18-20
It is a great pleasure to present the exhibition "you'll get
a BANG out of this" by Douglas Gordon and Jonathan Monk.
Both artists have done soloexhibitions at Galleri Nicolai Wallner
before however it is the first time that we present this unique
collaboration.
Douglas
Gordon and Jonathan Monk share the same interest in found images
and they have used found film footage and photographs in several
of their previous works before.
Douglas Gordon has manipulated and slowed down hollywood films,
bootleg concerts, medical history recordings and other un-canny
film-clips
Jonathan Monk has used 50's and 60's photographs from the old family
album to rewrite, comment on and strip down the conveyed arthistory.
Jonathan Monk
has also dealt with coincidences and used other found material (e.g.
found handwritten notes), and through this questioned the process
of making art and the perception of it.
The exhibition "you'll get a BANG out of this" consist
of a slide projection, a bar, balloons and a photograph of a semi
naked girl. (Champagne, balloons and a bit of exposed flesh - how
can you go wrong?).
In one room you will see a blow-up of a vintage 60's erotic photograph,
in which a woman is posing, covering her naked body with a big balloon
Ð "you'll get a BANG out of this" is printed on the balloon.
The room itself is filled with identical light blue balloons with
the same ambiguous and tempting text.
In the main gallery a large slide projection shows a series of manipulated
early 60's erotic images. There are four different variations; normal-,
over-, under-exposed and blurred, all in all 80 slides. The first
picture in the slideshow shows an unidentifiable image, a beautiful
soft mist that slide by slide slowly turns into an image of a woman
wearing a small
fishnet bodystocking.
Behind the semi-naked woman's rear is a text saying THE END.
Outside the main gallery is a low podium with an Arne Jacobsen chair
"no 7" in blackpainted wood. In the lower back of the
chair seat a little peephole is roughly sawn out. Beside the chair
on the podium lays a picture of a naked woman, sitting on a Jacobsen
chair, which kind of illustrates the use of the peephole. The so
called "Profumo" affair in the 1960's had an indirect
part in the fame of "no 7" because of this particular
picture of one of the main actors in the scandal, the callgirl Christine
Keeler.
The pun goes on. The con is over. If you missed out, we're sorry.
There might still be some champagne left behind the bar.
Cin Cin...Salute...Cheers! by Jacob Fabricius
We welcome you in the gallery and hope that you will enjoy the show.
Kind regards
Nicolai Wallner
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