Pentti monkkonen artistic tile

          The exhibition is housed in a grungy-looking space covered floor-to-ceiling in wheat colored ceramic tile.

        1. Like all the paintings in Monkkonen's show, it has a thin line of red adobe roof tiles lining the top of it.
        2. One was Armchair Socialism, a wall painted with a trellis and climbing rose pattern appropriated from an wallpaper design by William Morris.
        3. Into Jenny's humble office-space-cum-gallery, Monkkonen has inserted what appear to be sections of painted walls, textured with rough stucco and.
        4. These wall sections are actually carefully reproduced replicas on canvas; they reframe pieces of the streetscape as high art.

          5. One was Armchair Socialism, a wall painted with a trellis and climbing rose pattern appropriated from an wallpaper design by William Morris..

          Pentti Monkkonen

          GROUP EXHIBITIONS

          2022
          Le Biscuit à Soupe, High Art, Arles, France
          Des champs de fraises pour l’éternité, La Galerie – centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec, France
          2021
          High Art x VSF : 환상속의 그대, Various Small Fires, Seoul, South Korea
          2019
          Café Spit, Galerie PCP, Paris, France
          Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
          2018
          The Artist is Present curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
          Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
          Idéalement Située, Villa du Parc – centre d’art contemporain, Annemasse, France
          2017
          Concrete Island, Venus over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
          Pharmacy for Idiots, Rob Tufnell, Cologne, Germany
          Okey Dokey, Truth & Consequences hosted by Ginerva Gambino, Cologne, Germany
          I’m Nobody, High Art, Paris, France
          An Entertainment in Conversation and Verse, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, Italy
          2015
          No Joke, Tanya Leighton Gallery