Douglas Gordon & Jonathan Monk
“PARIS BAR”
Friday, April 8 – Saturday, May 14, 2016
Gallery Hours: 10:00-18:00 Tue. – Sat.
Closed on Sun., Mon., and Public Holidays
*reception for the artist :April 8, 2016 18:00-20:00
“PARIS BAR” (C) Douglas Gordon & Jonathan Monk Courtesy of TARO NASU
TARO NASU is pleased to announce an exhibition “PARIS BAR” by Douglas Gordon and Jonathan Monk. This show features new neon works in collaboration of these two artists.
Douglas Gordon
Born in the UK in 1966.
Lives and works in Glasgow and Berlin.
Gordon won the British Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the Venice Biennale in 1997, and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. Selected recent exhibitions include “After the After: Douglas Gordon and Tobias Rehberger” (Museu d’Art Contemporani d’ Eivissa, Iviza, Spain) in 2015, “The Only Way Out Is the Only Way In: Douglas Gordon” (Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne) in 2014, “I Am Also…” (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv) 2013, “Douglas Gordon: Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong…” (Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane) in 2012.
Jonathan Monk
Born in 1969, Leicester, U.K.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Graduated from Glasgow School of Art, Scotland in 1991, Leicester Polytechnique, U.K. in 1988. Has exhibited in various locations, including “All the possible combinations of twelve lights lighting (one at a time)”（Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Rom, Rome) and “Anything by the Smiths”(Centre d’art Neucha^tel, Neucha^tel, Switzerland) in 2015, “Jonathan Monk” (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin) in 2014, “COLOURS SHAPES WORDS (pink, blue, square, circle)” (Centro de Arte Contempora´neo de Malaga, Malaga, Spain) in 2013, “Time Between Spaces”(Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville, Paris, Paris) in 2008, and more.