2020 - Unoriginal Sins

17 May THE CORNER OF A POSTCARD HELD OVER THE CORNER OF ANOTHER POSTCARD WITH A BLACK PAPER CLIP. 2020. ONE OF ONLY 16 SIGNED, DATED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

Posted at 23:24h in Jonathan Monk

Bruxelles: MORE Publishers, 2020
17 x 12cm, 2pp commercial postcard displaying a view of the Atomium in Brussels taken during nighttime hours. Added to the bottom left of the card is a quarter of another card with the exact same view - but here the image was taken during daylight hours. The two sections are kept together by the use of a black plastic coated paper clip.
The back of the card is signed and dated in pencil by Monk and there is another printed sheet of card with the details of the edition and the number from the edition. Only 16 such combination of cards were made. VG+.

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17 May THE CORNER OF A POSTCARD HELD OVER THE CORNER OF ANOTHER POSTCARD WITH A WHITE PAPER CLIP. 2020. ONE OF ONLY 16 SIGNED, DATED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

Posted at 23:14h in Jonathan Monk

Bruxelles: MORE Publishers, 2020
17 x 12cm, 2pp commercial postcard displaying a view of the Atomium in Brussels taken during daylight hours. Added to the bottom left of the card is a quarter of another card with the exact same view - but here the image is at nighttime. The two sections are kept together by the use of a white plastic coated paper clip.
The back of the card is signed and dated in pencil by Monk and there is another printed sheet of card with the details of the edition and the number from the edition. Only 16 such combination of cards were made. VG+.

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12 May FOUR SHADES. 1992.

Posted at 20:27h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
101 x 8cm, 32pp plus end papers and green embossed boards. A proposal offered to Laumeier Sculpture Park in Saint Louis, the book has four paintings by Grahame Jones of leaf-like shapes (cast shades) - the elm, the pine, the plane and the lime. The choice of shades (shapes) comes from a quote by Vigil (a plane-tree was a common garden element in those days as were the three others mentioned).
The work was installed in 1994 and consisted of the four named trees planted together on an earthwork - making Virgil's quotation literal. it is possible to sit under the trees in their shade.

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24 Apr AFTER THE RUSSIAN. IN LONDON MAGAZINE VOL 8, NR 10; JANUARY 1969. TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THIS WORK.

Posted at 15:54h in Page Works & Contributions

London: London Magazine, January 1969
21.5 x 15.5cm, 116pp. Original boards. A single number of this long running literary journal which is notable for the first ever publication of the work AFTER THE RUSSIAN by John Furnival and Ian Hamilton Finlay, The work was later reprinted as a stand along broadside by Wild Hawthorn Press. VG condition.

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18 Mar THE TOLEDO MEDIA PROJECT PRESENTS TWO VIDEO ARTISTS…

Posted at 18:59h in Jud Yalkut

Toledo, OH: Toledo Media Project, n.d. 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp announcement leaflet printed red on light brown for two lectures and screenings by Andy garrison and Jud Yalkut. VG....

18 Mar EXPERIMENTAL FILMS BY JUD YALKUT AT THE FOUR WINDS CAFE.

Posted at 18:57h in Jud Yalkut

Yellow Springs, OH: Four Winds Cafe, n.d. 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp announcement leaflet printed black on blue with a large reproduced photo-collage of people watching or making video (possibly by Yalkut). A two night showing of works. SLight stains bottom right else VG....

27 Feb UNTITLED (MILANESE SOFT DJ). 2020. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 15:40h in Jonathan Monk

Milano: Loom Gallery, 2020
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with one work Untitled (Milanese Soft DJ) which references Judd and Oldenberg on the front, verso gallery details. This card is signed by Monk in pencil on the back.

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27 Feb UNTITLED (MILANESE SOFT DJ). 2020. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 09:29h in Jonathan Monk

Milano: Loom Gallery, 2020
21 x 15cm, 32pp (self cover) artist's book/exhibition catalogue displaying full colour images of all 32 works by Monk where "Judd Boxes" were reproduced using mostly soft materials - thus referencing Oldenburg's soft sculptures.This example is signed by Monk on the back page. VG+. ...

12 Jan THINGS ARE NOT LIKE OTHER THINGS THEY JUST ARE OTHER THINGS. 2018. UNIQUE LARGE WORK. SIGNED.

Posted at 15:04h in Uncategorised

3500 x 1800 x 75cm. Wood, treated cloth, metal and permanent chalk. An unique artwork utilising a found vintage roller blackboard where Bellingham hand-wrote three different visual/concrete poems on each of the three parts of the rolling board using permanent white chalk. The work can be moved such that a different poem can be seen at different times. Unique. Signed on base....

12 Jan THREEHUNDRED+SIXTYFIVEEXPOSURES (sic). 2010.

Posted at 13:49h in Uncategorised

Glasgow: Wax 366, 2010 26 x 21cm, 24pp (self cover). Artist's book (issued as a festive gift at the New Year as is Bellingham's habit), the word day is reproduced as a small photograph 365 times in the book (with evidence that Belling actually did that not just repeat the same image. Limitation not known. Fine....

12 Jan A E I O U. 2000. ONE OF 250 UNNUMBERED COPIES.

Posted at 11:32h in Uncategorised

Glasgow: Wax (Bellingham), 2000 Six separate printed sheets - each 43 x 18.5cm in plastic transparent pouch. The first sheet being the title and the rest each a faux optometry chart made up only by each of the English language vowels in turn. Edition of 250 copies (aside from a deluxe "exhibition" edition of 10 framed copies). Fine....

08 Jan IT HAS NO FORM….. 2020.

Posted at 19:49h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2020
14 x 16cm, 2pp artist postcard with a text showing white on orange on the front: "IT HAS NO FORM/IT HAS NO WEIGHT/IT HAS NO COLOUR/IT HAS NO SHAPE/IT IS INVISIBLE/IT IS TOMORROW." A new year's gift from the artist. VG+. ...