"Hazardous Brushstrokes"
New Paintings by Jaybo Monk
October 01, 2010 to November 06, 2010
Opening September 30th 2010 7pm
New works by Jaybo Monk at Circleculture Gallery. With the solo show "Hazardous Brushstrokes", Jaybo Monk explores how the process of painting becomes uncontrollable and takes on a life of its own. The success of the paintings is not dependent on the artist's will, but rather on his intuition and pure accident.
Jaybo Monk is a runaway, setting out and wandering along in a physical as well as in a creative sense. In his youth, he ran away from his house in southern France, settling in Berlin-Kreuzberg at the beginning of the 1980’s, where he busied himself as a graffiti writer, street actor and hip-hop musician. When he founded the streetwear label “Irie Daily” and the cultural magazine “Style” at the beginning of the 1990’s, his influence on Berlin’s youth culture could be clearly seen. Even today, urban subculture is the driving force behind his artistic activities.
This is especially true of his paintings; they are erratic and chaotic as they directly quote various fragments of urban subculture. They often plumb great psychological depths, thematically speaking, with lightness meeting existentialistic melancholy, aggressiveness meeting passion and a seemingly standard romantic streak and visionary dimension.
Gipsstrasse 11
10119 Berlin Mitte
10119 Berlin Mitte
