Galleries in Paris » Jonathan Monk

FENÊTRE DU STUDIO – DVIR

Galleries — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:12:08 +0000

“Fenêtre du studio” is a group exhibition centered around the question of painting, with works by Aysha E Arar, Miroslaw Balka, Marianne Berenhaut, Mircea Cantor, Latifa Echakhch, Douglas Gordon, Sigalit Landau, Yudith Levin, David Maljkovic, Jonathan Monk, Sarah Ortmeyer, Florian Pumhösl, Ariel Schlesinger.

The exhibition explores the various conceptual and artistic approaches these artists, coming from different backgrounds and generations, have with the medium of painting.

MONK – DVIR

Galleries — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:56:14 +0000

Metallic Sunsets

Dvir Gallery is delighted to present the latest series of prints by Jonathan Monk, “Metallic Sunsets”, for his first solo show in our Parisian gallery, opening on February 2^nd.

“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 straightforward 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

Galerie Dvir – Paris 3

Galleries — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:49:35 +0000

Dvir Gallery was founded in 1982 by Dvir Intrator to introduce cutting-edge contemporary Israeli artists. In 1994, the gallery broadened its representation to include international artists such as Miroslaw Balka, Marianne Berenhaut, Douglas Gordon, Latifa Echakhch and Lawrence Weiner in its program. In 2013, Dvir Gallery combined its three separate spaces into a five-story building, the first of its kind in Tel Aviv.

In 2016, the gallery opened its first gateway to Europe with a branch in Brussels, which strengthen and developed the existing relationship with the international artistic community.

In 2022, on the occasion of its 40^th anniversary, the gallery opened a space in Paris, in the heart of the historical Marais District, emphasizing the special ties and connection the gallery has had, since its beginnings, with the French cultural milieu, collaborating with artists, institutions and private collections.
Artists represented : Adel Abdessemed, Nelly Agassi, Miroslaw Balka,, Marianne Berenhaut, Jennifer Bornstein, Yossi Breger, Orna Bromberg, Mircea Cantor ,Lisetta Carmi, Latifa Echakhch ,Omer Fast, Adi Fluman, Simon Fujiwara, Douglas Gordon, Dor Guez, Thomas Hirschhorn, Shai-Lee Horodi, Sigalit , Yudith Levin, David Maljkovic, Matan Mittwoch, Jonathan Monk, Vered Nachmani, Moshe Ninio, Melik Ohanian, Sarah Ortmeyer, Florian Pumhösl, Barak Ravitz, Ariel Schlesinger, Netally Schlosser, Miri Segal, Nedko Solakov, Naama Tsabar, Lawrence Weiner, Bri Williams, Pavel Wolberg