Jonathan Callan

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Installation view by Jonathan Callan, Court, 2018, paper and screws, 445 cm × 375 cm, for view 2018/2019 in the Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders , Bergisch Gladbach

Jonathan Callan (born February 15, 1961 in Manchester ) is a British visual artist .

Life

Jonathan Callan grew up in Manchester, England . Impressed by the conceptual art of the 60s and 70s, he dropped alternative plans to study design. In 1980 he studied at Goldsmiths College of Art (1984 BA Honors, 1st Class). In 1988 he was admitted to the Slade School of Fine Art (1990 Higher Diploma of Fine Arts (HDFA), comparable degree is the Master of Sculpture). In 1992 he received the Boise Scholarship and in 1993 the Henry Moore Fellowship in Sculpture from the Winchester School of Art. Callan lives and works in London .

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Callan's work consists largely of sculptures and pictures . Due to the main material paper, the sculptures can be found indoors. The central theme of his work is information . The path to this theme leads through the relationship between a disembodiment of information and the embodied experience of a sculpture that uses this context.

His artistic work process begins with books or images found by chance , sometimes photographs. The work is created through an intuitive, exploratory process that is technically versatile and carried out with sometimes obsessive meticulousness. Callan uses almost all imaginable forms of processing: sawing, bending, cutting out, rubbing, drilling, gluing, nailing, screwing, grinding, boiling into pulp or overmolding. The originally clear context of a book is almost completely erased. The source material is transformed into an object-like, aesthetic sculpture, which can now be experienced sensually and aesthetically and which points to the limitations of language and information.

The work title, often a rhythmic composition using the original book title, is often the only recognizable reference to the original material. Some publicists consider Callan to be a representative of "Book Art" or "Paper Art"; he rejects this designation as an inadmissible reduction. Instead, in his sculptural work he ties in with the artistic tradition of "New Object Art" or "New British Sculpture" ( Tony Cragg , Bill Woodrow , Tony Carter, Richard Deacon , Alison Wilding and Richard Wentworth ) and develops them into his own Art further.

Solo exhibitions and collections (selection)

  • Inside Out !, solo exhibition with Andreas My, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, 2018, Bergisch Gladbach
  • I don't believe you, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, 2017
  • Kernel, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, 2016
  • Colony, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York 2016
  • Vacation, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, 2015
  • Word will fold, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, 2014
  • Bind, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York 2013
  • Prospero, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, 2012
  • Set, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, 2012
  • New Work, Hopstreet Galerie, Brussels, 2011
  • Blancpain Art Contemporain, Brussels, 2010
  • Faith, Kudlek van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, 2010
  • Making subjects and verbs agree, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA, 2010
  • I can't tell you why, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Belgium, 2009
  • oT, Nicole Klagesbrun Galerie (with Jason Tomme), New York, 2009
  • Access Denied, Kudlek van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, 2008
  • The Library of Past Choices, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Belgium, 2007
  • New Works, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, 2006
  • Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, USA, 2005
  • Empires and other Works, Houldsworth Gallery, London, 2005
  • The Apartment, Athens, 2005
  • Trace, Zinger Galerie, Netherlands, 2005
  • Interference, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, England, 2003
  • Interference, The New Art Gallery Walsall, England, 2002–2003
  • New Work, Zwemmer Art, London, 2001
  • Grant Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, 2001
  • Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, USA, 2000
  • Grant Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, 1999
  • Hales Gallery, London, 1995
  • Entwistle Gallery, London, 1994
  • Hales Gallery, London, 1992

Callan is represented in museums and private collections, including a. Museum of Modern Art, New York, The British Museum, The Henry Moore Institute, South London Art Gallery, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, The British Council, The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, The High Museum Atlanta, USA, The West Collection, Pennsylvania , Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, Progressive Art Collection, Ohio, JP Morgan Chase Bank, New York as well as various private collections in England, Europe, China, USA, Korea and Japan.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. http://www.jonathancallan.com/cv2016/ Retrieved September 16, 2018
  2. ↑ cf. Dr. Petra Oelschlägel, catalog "Inside Out - Jonathan Callan, Andreas My, 15.09.2018-06.01.2019", p. 7, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, ISBN 978-3-939227-40-3
  3. ↑ cf. Dr. Petra Oelschlägel, catalog "Inside Out - Jonathan Callan, Andreas My 15.09.2018-06.01.2019", pp. 7–9, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, ISBN 978-3-939227-40-3
  4. ↑ cf. Book Art: Iconic sculptures and installations made from books, pages 58–61, 2011, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-89955-366-6
  5. ↑ cf. Conversation with Dr. Petra Oelschlägel with Jonathan Callan, catalog "Inside Out - Jonathan Callan, Andreas My, 15.09.2018-06.01.2019", p. 128, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, ISBN 978-3-939227-40-3
  6. ↑ cf. Book Art: Iconic sculptures and installations made from books, pages 58–61, 2011, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-89955-366-6
  7. ↑ cf. The artist's own information on his website http://www.jonathancallan.com/cv2016/, accessed on September 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Callan, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester