2020 - Unoriginal Sins

23 Sep LINES. 2020. UNIQUE HAND-DRAWN BOOK. ONE OF A SERIES OF 50.

Posted at 10:33h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2020
15 x 10.5cm, 12pp artist's book - which is completely hand-made and drawn by Bellingham in green, red and black and blue felt-tipped pen. The title Lines is followed by pages with various lines in different colours (each page is different).
This is one of 50 proposed books in a series called "DRAWN ON DEMAND" each of which is hand-made on request by the artist (hence it is not clear that 50 such books will be realised). Signed on the back cover. VG+.

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23 Sep SETS. 2020. UNIQUE HAND-DRAWN BOOK. ONE OF A SERIES OF 50.

Posted at 10:30h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2020
15 x 10.5cm, 12pp artist's book - which is completely hand-made and drawn by Bellingham in green, blue and black and blue felt-tipped pen. The title Sets is followed by pages with various shapes in colours (each page is different).
This is one of 50 proposed books in a series called "DRAWN ON DEMAND" each of which is hand-made on request by the artist (hence it is not clear that 50 such books will be realised). Signed on the back cover. VG+.

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23 Sep NOTES. 2020. UNIQUE HAND-DRAWN BOOK. ONE OF A SERIES OF 50.

Posted at 10:29h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2020
15 x 10.5cm, 12pp artist's book - which is completely hand-made and drawn by Bellingham in red and black and blue felt-tipped pen. The title Notes is followed by pages with various lines in colours (each page is different).
This is one of 50 proposed books in a series called "DRAWN ON DEMAND" each of which is hand-made on request by the artist (hence it is not clear that 50 such books will be realised). Signed on the back cover. VG+.

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21 Sep BEHIND CLOSED DOORS V NORMA MANGIONE GALLERY. 2020. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 11:17h in Jonathan Monk

Torino: Norma Mangione Gallery, 2020
21 x 15cm, 24pp. Digitally printed exhibition catalogue with the exhibited eight oil of wood paintings all illustrated - the paintings are blurred (by enlargement) images from German photographs from football matches. The blurring is reminiscent of Gerhard Richter's early work. Text in English and German Luca Cerizza. This example is signed on the back cover in black felt tipped pen by Monk.

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12 Sep A DOUBLE HEADED COIN. 2020. ONE OF ONLY 90 NUMBERED COPIES.

Posted at 12:15h in Jonathan Monk

Leonards-on-sea: Project 78 Press, 2020 21 x 15cm, unpaginated (28pp) plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book issued for a neo-conceptual art exhibition curated by Scott Robertson who included work by Jonathan Monk, Ryan Gander and Lynda Morris, Aidan Moffat amongst others. Monk's work was based on a number of visits to Starbucks where the artist gave his name as that of famous conceptual artists which were written on the cups by the Barista. One colour image of a "Carl Andre" cup is reproduced. This is one of only 90 initialled (by Robertson) and numbered copies. VG+. ...

07 Sep GDZIE JEST BRAT TWOY, ABEL? WHERE IS ABEL, THY BROTHER? 1995. 22 VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE

Posted at 17:33h in Exhibition Catalogues

Warszawa : Galeria Zacheta, 1995
21 x 15 x 6cm, grey printed card slipcase content of 22 volumes of pamphlets from different participating artists in this large exhibition in the Zachęta National Gallery in Warsaw commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the second World War. Each volume is 21 x 15cm, pagination varies. Finlay's booklet is 21 x 15cm, 24pp plus wrappers. String bound. It includes various images of works including Inscription (a quote by Mathiez on Robespierre) shown on a blackboard, and Sundial as well as a stone inscription with a text taken from Finlay's Detached Sentences on The French Revolution. Most of the works displayed were inspired by Finlay's fascination with the events in France after the fall of the Bastille.
The sundial has a latin inscription carved into it - E-CAELO. That translates as "Out of heaven" - which clearly refers to the sun rays that hit the gnomon and create the shadow. Other artists include Christian Boltanski, Jochen Gerz, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Gabriel Orozco, Arnulf Rainer, Lawrence Weiner amongst others. All booklets are in VG+ condition. The outer slip case (being very fragile and cheaply made) is a little torn and battered in places. A scarce publication especially complete.

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28 Aug UNTITLED (“WAS GOING TO THROW THESE OUT” 2020.

Posted at 10:05h in Jonathan Monk

Berlin: s.p., 2020
30 x 21cm white paper on which Monk has tipped on 8 different Design/Miami VIP plastic cards sent to him by the Art Fair over the last eight years. On the front Monk has attached a yellow post-it note "Was going to throw these out - thought they might be of interest?" and that is it - pure ephemera? Unintended collage?. VG+.

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27 Aug THE DE CHIRICO BAKERY CHEESE PIE 2020. 2020. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 11:05h in Jonathan Monk

N.p.: Loodd Art, 2020
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for an object multiple where Monk purchased a cheese pie from a Greek bakery designed by Giorgio de Chitico's father in 1911 where the baker still uses the olive wood burning ovens following the traditional recipes of his forefathers.
"The pie was immediately 3D scanned and this digital pie was then perfectly recreated by a CNC routing machine in hard wood...

16 Aug LA AIR. 2020. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 20:29h in Jonathan Monk

N.p. (Kopenhagen): Den Danske Radeerforeining, 2020
25 x 19cm, 4pp announcement brochure for Monk's limited edition inkjet print showing images of a transparency slide - being a holiday photograph of someone (perhaps a Monk family member) in LA. Referencing the Bruce Nauman artist's book. Short text in danish. Signed in pencil on the back page by Monk. One small mark on front else VG.

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02 Aug UNTITLED (BYSUE). 2005. UNIQUE WORK.

Posted at 17:28h in Maris

Glasgow: s.p. (Maris), n.d. (2005) 29 x 21cm, original found exhibition catalogue by Joseph Beuys which has lost its covers and shows evidence of fire on all sides. The book has been sealed into a plastic transparent sheet with added cloth plasters. Additionally the book has been signed "Bysue" - an anagram of "Beuys" and with a small drawing of a hat - both deliberately looking like an original Beuys signature and drawing.
The history of this book tells the tale - it was found by a relative of Sue Maris after a house fire and stolen and then hidden (in case it was valuable). Suer Maris found this out at a later date and stole the book back from the thief. She then buried in a metal casket in Rannoch Moor for a number of years.
On taking the book out from its hiding place, the artist's created the final form with the addition of the "forged" signature - By Sue - and sealed the book. it was later given to Paul Robertson by Maris as a gift following an exhibition at Heart Gallery in Edinburgh.

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26 Jul RECONSTITUTION DE CHANSONS QUI ON CHANTEES A CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI ENTRE 1944 ET 1946. 2017. ONE OF 20 NUMBERED COPIES EACH WITH UNIQUE COVER.

Posted at 21:29h in RECORDS

Paris: Marion Goodman, n.d. (2017)
Standard 7inch single, 45 rpm in card sleeve. The music consists of two French lullabies (Il Était Un Petit Navire and Sainte-Elizabeth) and a traditional song from Bretagne (Fais Dodo Colas Mon Petit Frère).
This edition was probably made up from unused records from the deluxe edition of Boltanski's 1991 release "Livres", in which 60 copies of the record was included. This later re-release is one of 20 numbered copies each with a unique cover (an original photograph tipped onto the card sleeve. This version is unopened and unplayed - and in original plastic wrapping (hence the poor quality of the image here).

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12 Jul HEAD LUNG DEAD. 2019.

Posted at 12:03h in Beagles & Ramsay, Young & Contemporary Scottish Artists

Glasgow: Beagles & Ramsey, 2019 34.2 x 24cm, graphite and crayonj on paper. An original drawing with an image of one of the artists' boxed head figures. Unique....