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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jonathan Monk Description An account of the resource Jonathan Monk, 1969, born in Leicester, Great Britain. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. 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 photography he reflects on the tendency of contemporary art to devour references, simultaneously paying homage to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner, while demystifying the creative process. Monk is constantly asking ‘what next?’. His stainless steel series entitled Deflated Sculpture (2009) refigures Jeff Koon’s iconic balloon rabbit in various stages of collapse; letting the air out isn’t an act of iconoclasm so much as giving the original idea new life. So too Monk documented the period he lived in Los Angeles with a series of photographs titled None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip (1997–99), showing only the roads between buildings – a follow-up to Ed Ruscha’s artist book from 30 years before, All of the Buildings on Sunset Strip. But his conceptual configurations are also grounded in the personal: ‘what next?’ takes on a poignancy in the slide projection In Search of Gregory Peck (1997), where Monk brought together a collection of photographs taken by his late father in the 1950s, preceding him as a tourist in the US. Language A language of the resource Italian, English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monk, Jonathan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data hand-bound book, unique copy made by the artist himself. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image various (approximately 21,5x30cm.) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Small Proposals Book Description An account of the resource This project represents, first and foremost, a reflection on the feasibility of art projects and on the relationship between the artist and the commissioning body within the contemporary art system. Through the irony and poetic approach that would characterize his later projects, the artist ultimately questions broader dynamics and meanings. In this work, conceived when Jonathan Monk was still a student at the Glasgow School of Art, the artist presents a series of proposals for projects that are, by their very nature, impossible to realize — crazy, as he himself describes them. Closely connected to the designation of Glasgow as European Capital of Culture in 1990, Small Proposals Book is a handmade book containing the presentation of six public art interventions for the Scottish city. These are bound together with a (fake) response letter for each proposal from the official to whom the artist would supposedly have submitted the project, the Visual Arts Officer Tessa Jackson. Both the images and the response letters were, of course, produced by the artist himself. The visual part, through the reuse of everyday images that are exaggerated and stereotypical, aims to emphasize the deep irony and the implicit critique of the dynamics associated with this type of intervention. Jonathan Monk pretends to propose bringing the pyramids to Glasgow Green, moving the Golden Gate Bridge over the River Clyde (although the image used was actually that of the Humber Bridge, which is why the proposal is rejected in the fictional response letter), restoring driving orientation to continental standards, transplanting one of the giant sequoias from Redwood National and State Parks, moving Stonehenge to redevelop the fountain in Kelvingrove Park, and finally relocating Disneyland for a year to the parking lot of the St. Enoch Centre. <a href="https://moremuseum.org/omeka/files/original/00bf38f32cebed71d4258eef52319e4e.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monk, Jonathan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Scotti, Marco Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1757" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1757</a> Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. 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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 photography he reflects on the tendency of contemporary art to devour references, simultaneously paying homage to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner, while demystifying the creative process. Monk is constantly asking ‘what next?’. His stainless steel series entitled Deflated Sculpture (2009) refigures Jeff Koon’s iconic balloon rabbit in various stages of collapse; letting the air out isn’t an act of iconoclasm so much as giving the original idea new life. So too Monk documented the period he lived in Los Angeles with a series of photographs titled None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip (1997–99), showing only the roads between buildings – a follow-up to Ed Ruscha’s artist book from 30 years before, All of the Buildings on Sunset Strip. But his conceptual configurations are also grounded in the personal: ‘what next?’ takes on a poignancy in the slide projection In Search of Gregory Peck (1997), where Monk brought together a collection of photographs taken by his late father in the 1950s, preceding him as a tourist in the US. Language A language of the resource Italian, English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monk, Jonathan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Portrait of the Artist in a Building Description An account of the resource This project consists of a series of portraits of the artist, made exclusively from photographs of buildings taken while Jonathan Monk was inside them. The artist was not meant to be the only person in the building, but the only one involved in the project. The selected buildings were the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the TV Tower in Berlin, the BT Tower in London, the CN Tower in Toronto, and the Empire State Building in New York. The result would have been a series of photographs of these buildings, with the artist invisible in the image yet actually portrayed at the top of each structure, looking directly into the camera lens. The project was ultimately abandoned by the artist. <a href="http://moremuseum.org/omeka/files/original/cfacf4d01608f7cd14eb3c4097b1e32a.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monk, Jonathan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Scotti, Marco Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Jonathan Monk MoRE Museum