Paris: Centre Pompideau, 2019
43.5 x 30.5cm, 8pp exhibition handout/exhibition catalogue for the major Paris exhibItion - this being the English language version. One large double page work reproduced across the middle pages and 40 works listed with small colour photographs as well as gallery plan. There is an interview in English with Bernard Blistene. Folded for storage else VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019
24.5 x 33cm, thick printed card bound together with elastic band closures. A drawing board with two of the artist's installations on front and back - the lights spell out arrive and depart - an obvious reference to birth and death. This was an unlimited edition issued at the time of the major career surveying Paris exhibition. Initially "Faire son Temps" was envisaged as a major retrospective but the artist refused and insisted that new work be on display along with earlier material. This example is unwrapped in original shrink wrap plastic. VG++.
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Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2019
26.5 x 20cm, 280pp plus board with illustration of COEUR on the front. The major monograph and exhibition catalogue for the major career surveying Centre Pompidou exhibition with over 50 large scale installations and other works.
Initially "Faire son Temps" was envisaged as a major retrospective but the artist refused and insisted that new work be on display along with earlier material. Illustrated profusely throughout and a long interview between the artist and Bernard Blistine. This example is VG++.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019
16.4 x 16.4cm, 4pp invitation card plus inserted 16.4 x 16.4cm, 1pp on transparent paper for the opening of the major "retrospective" (although new work was presented alongside old) and to the private reception/dinner in honour of the artist in the Chapelle des Beaux-arts. VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019
60 x 40cm, full colour lithographic exhibition poster with an image of Boltanski's public artwork where rocket-like sculptures allow air to rush through them to make low moaning sounds. The poster for the major exhibition which initially was meant to be a retrospective but included (after Boltanski's insistance) a good proportion of new work. VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019
18.5 x 12cm, 94pp. Card covers. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue issued during the major Boltanski retrospective with c. 80 b/w images of found faces printed in such a manner as to resemble ghosts. Short texts in French by the artist. VG+.
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Le Havre:Galerie 65 de l'Esadhar, 2019
15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show with a work by Monk (Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday (Sunset) from 2005 on the front in colour. This example is signed by Monk in black felt tipped pen on the back. VG+.
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Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2019
18 x 6.5cm, offset fragment of the unused wall paper from the EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR installation. Signed on the back in pencil by Monk. VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019 41 x 35cm, two sided b/w tote bag in cotton with black handles. Issued at the artist's final large scale museum show with an image of the installation "Animitas" where bells were suspended on flexible iron rods and left for the wind to make them peal in situ. VG+. Unlimited edition....
33 x 20.3cm, digital print on paper with added watercolour and gouache. One of a series of works where Monk has recreated paintings by the arte povera artist Salvo who is known for his stylised tree paintings and painted them on digital print outs of scanned furniture adverts (objects made from trees as is the paper.) Unique. Signed by the artist.
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Paris: Three Star Books, 2019
25 x 70cm, unique print made by hand-dipping and creating a marbled paper with silk screened text in white. This work being created in the aftermath of the limited edition book THE END. The title refers to the Ed Ruscha prints where the final frame of films were recreated but also to the end papers of books which are often made by a similar colour dipping process. Each print in the series of 180 unique works are signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+
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