14 Jul CANDLE. 2010.
Berlin: Little and Large Editions, 2010 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a limited edition by Monk jointly with Ariel Schlesigner with a photograph of the work on the front. VG+. ...
03 Jul SWAP: ICU / SWAP: INSTALLATIONSANSICHT. 2010.
Berlin: Haubrokshows, 2010
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp. Announcement card for a joint show with Klaus Merkel - the front of the card is a text in English by Merkel and on the back of the card Monk has simply mirrored the text such that it reads right to left. This is a strategy Monk has used in other works - reflection. Internally gallery text. VG+.
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03 Jun COUNTING IN COLOUR. 2010. ONE OF ONLY 32 PORTFOLIOS WITH TEN SIGNED LITHOGRAPHS.
Polígrafa Obra Gráfica, 2010 47 x 57.5cm, Portfolio with 11 lithographs each with a number from 1 to 11 printed in the respective number of colours of the number i.e. 6 has 6 overlapping different colours. We assumed the choice of 11 numbers reflects the number of players in a football team and the whole in in a printed card box with a centre circle from a football pitch design however we asked Jonathan Monk and he replied: "the piece was not really supposed to relate to football but the publisher is a big Barcelona fan and he proposed the football related portfolio...
29 May … SO DIFFERENT, SO APPEALING? 2010. SIGNED BY MONK. WITH PRESS RELEASE.
Berlin: Meyer Riegger, 2010
21 x 15cm, 44pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book which displays 15 colour images of then modern electrical devices in vitrines. A direct reference to Jeff Koon's presentation of Hoovers and other electrics in the 1990s. There is a foreword text by Monk in English and German.
The catalogue is signed in pencil by Monk on the inside first page. VG+.
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Berlin: Meyer Riegger, 2010
21 x 15cm, 2pp, black on yellow press release from the gallery for the show. VG+.
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25 May WORKS ON PAPER.
Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, n.d.
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a posthumous exhibition of prints. One work - SEAMS - on the front. VG+.
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18 May UNTITLED. POINT D’IRONIE NR 50. 2010.
Paris: Point d'ironie/Agnes b, 2010
43.4 x 30.7cm, 8pp, A single number of the artist's periodical which invites a single artist to create an artist's book. This is one of two such publications by Boltanski in the series - he also did number 26, eight years earlier. The pages display one of the artist's major installations in the Palais des Beaux-arts in Paris where he massed vast numbers of second-hand clothing. Folded for storage else VG+. Published in a large edition size of 10,000 copies and distributed in the various boutique of Agnes b.
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15 May I GOT UP AT 6.45 AM. UNIQUE COLLAGE/DRAWING WORK. 2010. SIGNED BY MONK.
30 x 21cm, 1pp inkjet output printed in black, green and purple with the overlapped text "I got up at 6.45am" - a reference to the work of On Kawara - and also stamped in green ink from a hotel's address stamp - to reference Kippenberger's hotel stationery drawings - and two gouache paintings of a rough square and a circle. There are three collage elements - one an Arabic postal stamp which is glued to the paper and two unattached items - a German transport ticket and a photographic booth self portrait of the artist. Additionally the paper has a rust mark on the left which seems to have come from an old rust paper clip.
The work (which brings together associations from the work of a number of different conceptual artists) is signed in pencil "JM10" bottom right. A gift from the artist to Paul Robertson. Unique.
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15 May JUPITER ARTLAND. 2010.
Wilkieston: Jupiter Artland, 2010
21 x 15cm, 2pp. Promotional leaflet for a large scale sculpture garden with one work by Finlay reproduced in colour on the back amongst others. VG+.
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14 May NO MAN’S LAND. 2010.
NYC: Park Avenue Armory, 2010 27 x 19cm, 8pp (single sheet, opens out to 38 x 54cm). Exhibition brochure which when open displays a poster photograph of one of Boltanski's clothing installations as well on the outside a tin box installation. This was Boltanski's most ambitious project in the States to date with a number of different works displayed in the 55,000 square foot building. VG+. ...
19 Mar E. 2010.
Paris: Tornabuoni Art/Yvon Lambert, 2010
21 x 15cm, 4pp, Announcement card for the solo exhibition by Monk which took place during the major retrospective of the work of Alighiero Boetti in Paris. The car reproduces one of Boetti's Mappa works on the inside and back cover mentions the Monk show.
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21 X 15cm, 1pp invitation leaflet to the launch of the Boetti book "Catalogue General d'Alighiero Boetti". Typographic only.
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19 Mar WORKS AND STORIES. 2010.
Rivett: Peter Jones and Susan Taylor, 2010 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card - text only. Mailed copy. . Fine. ...
02 Mar APRES. 2010.
Vitry-sur-seine: VMAC/VAL, 2010 22 x 14cm, 4pp announcement card for an exhibition and a major public installation Les Vigages throughout the town where close up images of eyes were place on billboards. VG+. ...