[11. januar 2001]
press release

	Douglas Gordon & Jonathan Monk January 12 - March 3 2001 Opening Friday January 12 from 18-20

It is a great pleasure to present the exhibition "you'll get a BANG out of this" by Douglas Gordon and Jonathan Monk.

Both artists have done soloexhibitions at Galleri Nicolai Wallner before however it is the first time that we present this unique collaboration.

Douglas 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 - "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. The first picture in the slideshow shows a blurred 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.

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

We welcome you in the gallery and hope that you will enjoy the show.

Kind regards

Nicolai Wallner

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