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Art Assets is pleased to announce “Feint”, an installation of illuminated digital photographs and sculpture by British conceptual artist, Jonathan Allen. This is Allen’s debut solo exhibition in New York in which he combines digitized language with the visual rhetoric of ’switch’ lenticular photography (found in kitsch 3-D images that change when you move them from side to side).
“Feint” in particular, refers to the strong associations that money has when it is used in magic and consists of lenticular photographs depicting coins (JFK half-dollars) appearing and disappearing. Allen states:
As coins appear and melt away in the hands of a magician, it is as if the physical nature of money itself were dematerializing, revealing it as the abstraction we sense it to be, yet on a daily basis are obliged to mis-perceive. Magicians may feint using copper and silver but it is the psychological transactions of their audience that are their true medium.
Allen’s photographs result from a new technology of movement defined by a digital world. His works actually “move” from the visible to the invisible, (as coins disappear) proposing images that waver on the threshold of arrival and departure. Allen’s lenticular interpretations recall the readiness of a photographic lie, not unlike Sarah Charlesworth’s photographs of magic tricks that render transparent photography’s relationship to illusion.
Connecting to the photographs is an installation of copper ribbon that wraps around the walls. The ribbon is inscribed with text on coin magic performance.
Jonathan Allen graduated from Chelsea of Art, London, and is a Henry Moore Fellow 1991-93. Allen lives and works in London. This is his first solo exhibition in New York.
The photographs in “Feint” were made with Kodak Dynamic Imaging Technology and illuminated using the latest wafer-thin glow panel technology from Duggal.
“Feint” was made possible with generous support from The British Council, Kodak Dynamic Imaging and Duggal.
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