Magic Shop, 2002, flashing neon sign, 67 x 57 x 10cm
“Blinking slowly in the gallery window, Jonathan Allen’s magic shop sign acknowledges not only the white cube’s capacity to conceptually shape-shift to accommodate art’s constant re-definition, but also its more uncertain role as purveyor of unquantifiable goods and suspect wonders” [Carol Maund, director of Site Gallery, Sheffield, Con Art catalogue essay]
Con Art, Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2002 >
Mesmer, temporarycontemporary, London 2004 >
ATEFACT: The Act of Magic, Leuven 2017 >
also see Hoc Est Corpus, 2002 >