Artists

Jonathan Monk

Press release

The exhibition will be closed due to our summer break from 28 July until 19 August 2024. Free Association with a Conceptual Price Tag In the mid-nineties, the cable television channel Cartoon Network ran an advert to promote its own programming that centred around the concept of an interconnected cartoon universe. In this short animation, the character Velma was said to be the central point of the Cartoon Network cosmos and it referred to her as “a giant celestial body that is in some way linked to every toon alive”. The concept was simple, if you took any character from any Cartoon Network show, you would be able to trace a path from them back to Velma – a sort of 6-degrees-of-separation for cartoon characters.