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    • The Guardian Just Loves Mr Hodgkin
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    • Oh I Do Like
    • D. R. Addison
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      • Institute of Monochrome Art, Volume 1
      • In the Company of Others
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    • Jasper Johns Gray
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Institute of Monochrome Art: 1997 I SYLVIE FLEURY and CHARLES RAY I 009

2015, ongoing

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1997 I SYLVIE FLEURY and CHARLES RAY I 009, is the ninth pairing in a series of 31 for which Jex has selected works by the Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury and the American artist Charles Ray. The car sculptures are close to identical with one clear difference; the colours. Fleury’s glossy pink is reminiscent of young girls toys, whereas Ray opts for grey, making the work appear as an injection-moulded plastic scale model kit aimed at young boys; emphasising and highlighting stereotypical gendering of colours in both works.

Jex based the pairing on the similarities of the work, a discussion of gender and sexuality. Continuing Jex’s process of assigning visual associations, these works featured alphabetically towards the beginning and end of a reference book. Not only are the works almost visually identical, they share the same year of provenance that gaves Jex the title to the pairing; 1997, the same year of the car crash that killed Diana Princess of Wales on 31 August 1997.

Institute of Monochrome Art is a collection of exhibition opportunities that pair together two artists whose work relates to the rules established and defined by Jex about the single colour in art and Appropriation Art. Begun in 2015, the project is an ongoing investigation to expand, explore and in some terms educate, as a bridge to showcase the variety and scope of Monochrome Art.

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