DOUGLAS GORDON & JONATHAN MONK...
Douglas Gordon & Jonathan MonkDouglas 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