paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

01 Nov TURNOUT. + ABSTENTION. + TURNOUT POSTER. 2005.

Posted at 14:40h in Uncategorised

TURNOUT Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005 15 x 10.2cm, 32pp plus printed card covers. A new artist's book from Scottish artist, David Bellingham that solely consists of 4,668 reproductions of hand drawn crosses and an illustration of a ballot box. There are strictly 500 hand-numbered copies of this book - aside from one unique book (no. 1) within the edition which corrects the entire number of crosses to exactly represent the total number of votes cast in Scotland during the May 5th 2005 General Election (2,333,882). Conceptual work and/or concrete poem, this is a peon to democracy and a metaphor of the substantial effort required in maintaining openness in society. If ever there was time to remind ourselves of the importance of our pluralist societies, it is now.

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Bellingham, David ABSTENTION Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005

14.5 x 21cm, 2pp. artist’s postcard as edition. The Scottish Parliament is show overlaid with red “x”s - the postcard was issued in a small number of copies during the period when Bellingham took a break from making his major work TURNOUT at the Heart Gallery, Edinburgh where he re-wrote the entire number of Xs cast in the Scottish 2003 Scottish parliamentary election by hand. "Abstention" is a counterpart to the "Turnout” project and represents the

50.7% of people who did not vote during the 2003 election.

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Bellingham, David TURNOUT Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005

42 x 29.7cm, black and red offset limited edition poster designed by the artist for the TURNOUT project. Folded as issued.

PRINCE FOR ALL

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28 Oct UNTITLED (WALLPAPER FRAGMENT FROM EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR). 2019. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 13:57h in Jonathan Monk

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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16 Oct ANIMITAS. 2019.

Posted at 11:07h in OBJECT MULTIPLES

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....

17 Aug UNTITLED (MAGAZINE TREES) XXVII. 2019. UNIQUE PAINTING ON DIGITAL PRINT.

Posted at 16:20h in Jonathan Monk

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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05 Aug THE END. 2019. UNIQUE HANDMADE MARBLE PAPER/SILKSCREEN ON PAPER FROM A SERIES.

Posted at 16:59h in Jonathan Monk

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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02 Aug FAKE KLEIN BLUE STAMP. 2019. UNIQUE MAIL ART WORK.

Posted at 22:35h in David Bellingham

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp commercial postcard bearing a cross text and a painted post office stamp in the equivalent blue shad of International Klein Blue. This unique mail art work was sent by Bellingham to Robertson as a gift after a discussion about Yves Kleins famous blue stamps that he used to post out one of his announcement cards for an exhibition. ...

21 Jun RESTAURANT DRAWINGS. 2019. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 13:23h in Jonathan Monk

NYC: Casey Kaplan, 2019
15 x 11.5cm, 2pp, announcement card for an exhibition of drawings by Monk on real meal receipts - the price of each work being the amount printed on the receipt. The drawings are parodies/homages to drawings by conceptual artists - the one illustrated on the front there being a Boetti. This card is signed by Monk on the back. VG+.

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27 May THE END. 2019. UNIQUE HANDMADE MARBLE PAPER/SILKSCREEN ON PAPER FROM A SERIES.

Posted at 18:09h in Jonathan Monk

17 May UNTITLED (LEWITT). 2019. UNIQUE WORK.

Posted at 13:28h in Jonathan Monk

12 x 6cm, printed thermal restaurant receipt upon which Monk has drawn a faux Sol Lewitt "incomplete cube". This is one of a series of such drawings on receipts where the original price of the work is the total on the receipt. Here $39.93. Framed in glass and wood. VG+. Unique.

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21 Apr SOME LENGTHS OF COLOUR TO MEND HOLE IN FIELDS OF COLOUR. 2019.

Posted at 15:06h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2019
12 x 7cm, plastic envelope content of a printed backing sheet and a tipped on sample of colour threads used to mend clothes. Object multiple in an unknown edition size. VG+. ...

19 Apr A WALLED GARDEN. 2019. ONE OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES.

Posted at 20:40h in Artist's Books

Tipperary/Saint Paulinus: Coracle & Saint Paulinus, 2019 18 x 24cm, 186pp and hand boards with applied colour illustration label. A posthumous artist's book explaining "the history of the Spandau Garden in the time of the architect Albert Speer". Speer was, of course, a Nazi who was jailed at the Nuremburg trials rather than condemned to death like his fascist friends and colleagues. The book is filled with quotations taken from Finlay's letters to Speer and watercolours of the prizon garden by Ian Gardener. It is a lovely publication if more than a little contentious. One of 500 numbered copies. VG+. ...

10 Mar EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR – PLUS INVITED GUESTS. 2019. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 19:50h in Jonathan Monk

Berlin: Kindl, 2019
21 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a solo show where the walls were papers with images of his works and others. On the front is an installation view. Verso- gallery details. Signed by Monk on the back. VG+.

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