Iona: Iona Craft Shop, 2016
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard - in 2015 of the planets out of bronze and buried them in a remote field on the island of Iona. Each was buried a relative distance from the surface as their average orbits are from the sun.
This card is an extension of that work in postcard form where the island of Iona is placed amongst the planets as if it is in the outer reaches of the solar system.
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Glasgow: WAX366, 2016
8 x 15.5cm, 2pp announcement card asking recipients to take part in "a day of tolerance" - "a temporary state of Utopia" on the leap day in 2016. Typographic design. VG+
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30 x 21cm, 1pp. Offset black on red letter explaining the concept. Folded for mailing.
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Bologna: Galleria Enrico Astuni, 2016
15 x 21cm, folded poster/booklet that opens up to 60 x 84cm poster. Designed by Monk each page opens up to a different textual work. This was issued during a group show curated by Lorenzo Bruni but Monk did not exhibit simply offering this work. The texts are in order: "IERI. OGGI. DOMANI. ECCETERA." which translated means "YESTERDAY. TODAY. TOMORROW. ETC."
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Original printed envelope, neatly opened, signed in pencil on the back by Monk.
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Glasgow: WAX336, 2016
Two cards both 7.5 x 11.5cm, 4pp. Both are "in memoriam" cards printed black on white - the first has the text "In loving memory of yesterday. Aged 24 hours", the second: "In loving memory of last yea. Aged 365 days".
The two cards were issued in the original black 11.5 x 16cm, envelope as a New Year's gift from Bellingham to friends and colleagues. Both VG+ in like envelope.
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San Francisco: The Thing, 2016
30 x 21cm, 24pp (self cover). A wall calendar for the year 2016 which was sent out to subscribers of The Thing magazine by the publishers. It is an almost complete collection of Meeting pieces by Jonathan Monk. The works pieces have never before been gathered/archived in one document, and include everything from Meeting #3 (Palais des Galces Paris le 16 mars 2006) to the new meeting specially created for this calendar (Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco September 30th 2016). The publishers say only 500 copies were made.
"The artist will meet the owner of each piece at the place and time stated. It is important to understand that the work is the actual rendezvous and not the invitational text that preceeds it. It is also important to realize that like all meetings, there is a possibility these meetings will not be met." - Jonathan Monk
This copy was a gift from Jonathan Monk to Paul Robertson and is unusually signed in pencil on the inside back cover.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 2015
21.3 x 15cm, printed yellow outer folder content of two folded posters (both open to 42 x 60cm with diagonal stripes in green and yellow. A joint work with the concrete poet Clark which references the early work of Daniel Buren and Fred Sandback. VG+. Scarce.
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Temple: Show & Tell Editions/Lust & The Apple, 2015
21 x 15cm, 72pp. Laminated cover and glossy internal pages content of c. 60 full page images of works by Monk that were shown in secret in an attic in Edinburgh. Visitors to the exhibition were by invitation only and ONLY 129 people viewed the exhibition during the three months it was on show - mind you a single step away from the central walkway and one fell to one's death 40 feet below. Art is dangerous. One of 600 copies. Fine.
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London: InOtherWords, n.d. (2015)
9 x 6.5 x 2cm printed cardboard box content of 56 printed playing cards, which show various aspects of a photograph by Monk of literally nine Kippenberger editions, one Boetti watch, a cigarette on a background of yellow. Unlimited edition aside from the signed edition of 50 copies. VG+ although one small damp mark on the side of the box.
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Faenza: Museo Carlo Zault, 2015
14.8 x 10.4cm, 2pp card announcing the artist's residency with an image of Monk making a floral work on the front. Verso museum details. Signed in pencil by Monk on the back. VG+.
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Faenza: Museo Carlo Zault, 2015
21 x 15cm, 8pp (self cover) exhibition catalogue for an artist's residency culminating in a solo show curated by Guido Molinari. Nine colour images of the artist creating works with others and texts in Italian and English. Signed in pencil by Monk on one of the inner pages. VG+.
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30 x 21cm, xerox reproduction of a photograph by Monk of his hand which has had the background to the image painted out in white.
Signed on the back in pencil and with the hand-written note "Original test for Camden art Center Edition 2015". An unique work given as a gift by Jonathan Monk to Paul Robertson. VG+.
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France: Monnaie de Paris, 2015
50 x 46cm, printed brown paper bag with string handles. Boltanski organised along with Hans Ulrich Obrist a series of TAKE ME I'M YOURS exhibitions (beginning in 1995 at the Serpentine Gallery, London) where the artworks could be taken away by visitors. Boltanski often created "Dispersions" - piles of second hand clothing that anyone was welcome to put into the specially printed bags (of which this is one example) and take home. Theoretically an unlimited edition but time limited.
This example is in VG+ condition but folded twice for storage.
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France: Monnaie de Paris, 2015
21 x 15cm, 1pp typographic handout describing the work from the exhibition. Also mentioned the Felix Gonzalez Torres works on show in the exhibition. VG+.
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