Jonathan Monk: Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank and Other Problems
Quartz Studio is pleased to present Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank and other problems, an edition by Jonathan Monk (Leicester, UK, 1969), purposely conceived for the Turin non-profit space. The project of this edition, following the one of Poster (Manifesto), realized in collaboration with Maurizio Nannucci in 2014, was pending since the exhibition Cool Your Jets (2016), resulting from a dialogue between Liam Gillick and Jonathan Monk on the topics of soccer and economy. Now, within the expanded time of the health emergency, that idea finally takes shape in order to support Quartz through the production of an edition of 10 (+1 AP).
On the occasion, three installations have been produced. Each of them is composed by seven hexagonal cement tiles replicating the colors of the original Quartz floor cement tiles and three balls realized in Germany in 2016, thanks to the technical advice of Giulia Mainetti from Altofragile studio, Milan. The original project for the exhibition Cool Your Jets - writes the critic Marco Scotti 鈥� was born from a conversation between Jonathan Monk and Liam Gillick, in which to the questions posed by the latter related to themes of contemporary sociology, the former replied with quotations from the world of football. In Monk鈥檚 continuous interactions between conceptual art and autobiography, this sport regularly recurs, starting with his beloved Leicester City Football Club. Amidst the artist鈥檚 memories and works we find the collages
The little things make all the difference, photos of actions during football matches slightly modified changing the position of the ball, Keep Stills, where letraset letters are superimposed over heads within old photographs - occasionally footballers - to compose phrases from On Kawara, or Alighiero Boetti鈥檚 world maps redesigned through football uniforms instead of national flags, and minimal sculptures by Sol LeWitt transformed into functional football goals.
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Quartz Studio is pleased to present Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank and other problems, an edition by Jonathan Monk (Leicester, UK, 1969), purposely conceived for the Turin non-profit space. The project of this edition, following the one of Poster (Manifesto), realized in collaboration with Maurizio Nannucci in 2014, was pending since the exhibition Cool Your Jets (2016), resulting from a dialogue between Liam Gillick and Jonathan Monk on the topics of soccer and economy. Now, within the expanded time of the health emergency, that idea finally takes shape in order to support Quartz through the production of an edition of 10 (+1 AP).
On the occasion, three installations have been produced. Each of them is composed by seven hexagonal cement tiles replicating the colors of the original Quartz floor cement tiles and three balls realized in Germany in 2016, thanks to the technical advice of Giulia Mainetti from Altofragile studio, Milan. The original project for the exhibition Cool Your Jets - writes the critic Marco Scotti 鈥� was born from a conversation between Jonathan Monk and Liam Gillick, in which to the questions posed by the latter related to themes of contemporary sociology, the former replied with quotations from the world of football. In Monk鈥檚 continuous interactions between conceptual art and autobiography, this sport regularly recurs, starting with his beloved Leicester City Football Club. Amidst the artist鈥檚 memories and works we find the collages
The little things make all the difference, photos of actions during football matches slightly modified changing the position of the ball, Keep Stills, where letraset letters are superimposed over heads within old photographs - occasionally footballers - to compose phrases from On Kawara, or Alighiero Boetti鈥檚 world maps redesigned through football uniforms instead of national flags, and minimal sculptures by Sol LeWitt transformed into functional football goals.
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