Balanced Acts, Jonathan Monk & Ariel Schlesinger

A new exhibition of collaborative works by Jonathan Monk and Ariel Schlesinger.

The starting point of this series of works was a long distance dialogue, followed by an intense discussion centered around the idea of equilibrium and the failure of finding a perfect balance.

The work of “Balance Acts” comprises of 24 photographs by Swiss duo Fischli and Weiss. Each image has been carefully manipulated, installed within its own defined setting and illuminated by what appears to be a candle stick simply stuck into a wine bottle. Real objects have been added and real objects have been removed.

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, October 30th – December 11th, 2010
Photography by Elad Sarig
Design by Sven Hausherr

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Erotica. Jonathan Monk. published by BQ.
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Again, A Time Machine, A Book Works touring exhibition in five parts.

Artists are playing with words again – raiding the archive, bringing the dead back to life, making the living look dead. Quicker than the ever-elusive present, they are forging a practice through words, images, books, and ephemera, that begins to anticipate the past, forecast possible histories and re-visit alternative futures.

Again, A Time Machine is a fluid tour, reinventing itself as work moves from venue to venue. Based on new commissions and archival presentations, it will generate ephemera, performance and printed material, in response to a theme which plays with and inverts notions of time, archive, distribution and received pasts and perfect futures.

Jonathan Monk
Slavs and Tatars
Dora Garcia
The Happy Hypocrite

Part One: Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 26 February to 16 April 2011.
Opening: Friday 25 February, 6 to 9pm.

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EVENTS:

Jonathan Monk artist’s talk
Saturday 26 February, 3–4.30pm

Slavs and Tatars artist’s talk
Thursday 24 March, 6.30-8pm

The Happy Hypocrite
Say What You See
Co-hosted by An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco
Thursday 31 March, 6.30–10pm

Dora Garcia artist’s talk
Thursday 14 April, 6.30–8pm

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FORTHCOMING

Motto Berlin
6 May to 2 June 2011

The Showroom, London
14 June 2011 to 19 May 2012

Spike Island, Bristol
16 September to 9 October 2011

White Columns, New York
23 October to 19 November 2011

Librairie Yvon Lambert at Motto Berlin, on the occasion of the Berlin-Paris exchange.
Yvon Lambert Editeur as well as a selection of french publishers on display until the end of the month.

Also available: an edition from Jonathan Monk printed on the occasion of the exchange (set of 10 posters).
(Prices available on request)

Jonathan Monk & Douglas Gordon. Leon d’Oro

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Leon d’Oro. Organized by Mirta d”Argenzio and presented by the foundazione Mora Greco, Naples.
18 February – 20 May 2009.

Edition of 500
Mousse publishing