21 Apr

Posted at 09:11h in David Bellingham

Iona: Iona Craft Shop, 2015
21 x 15cm, letterpress and foil stamping on thick brown card, 2pp. Bellingham was commissioned by the Iona Craft Shop to create a new work and he made various scale models 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. There is no overground record other than the map on the back of this card that shows where the works are - and even that map only shows the outline of the field. Jupiter was the size of an orange and Pluto (hmmm - a planet?) the size of a pea. Mercury is four inches from ground level and Neptune is found nine feet deep.
There are two cards - one on white, the other on brown, this is the latter.
"There is nothing to see, just a story to tell about a buried solar system that mimics the one about our heads."

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15 Mar

Posted at 10:02h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains, 2015
35.5 x 23.5cm, 4pp museum handout for the large retrospective which divided the works up into 7 sections - Les Pendus, Le Spectateur, Lew Boites, Les Vetements, La Lumiere, Les Archives du Coeur, Les Compteurs. The handout is in French and English with both sections with the same images - seven small b/w installation views and an interview with Botlanski in both languages. VG+.

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15 Mar

Posted at 09:57h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains, 2015
30 x 21cm, 8pp museum catalogue for the large retrospective which divided the works up into 7 sections - Les Pendus, Le Spectateur, Lew Boites, Les Vetements, La Lumiere, Les Archives du Coeur, Les Compteurs. Two large colour images of a Box installation and a huge clothing installation (a mountain of discarded clothes), several smaller colour images and one b/w image. VG+

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23 Feb

Posted at 12:03h in Page Works & Contributions

Glasgow: Seebed Press, 2015
15 x 21cm, 52pp in embossed and printed thick boards, string bound. A cataloguing of the works commissioned by the European Association of Archaeologists Glasgow up to 2015. Works include the Boyle Family, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Catherine Mooney, Kate Downie as well as Finlay's ALL GREATNESS STANDS FIRM IN THE STORM from 1990 where the text in Greek (a translated quotation by Heidegger from Plato's Republic) was inscribed in both languages on the granite pillars of the Old Caledonian Railway Bridge over the River Clyde. The site specific work clearly emphasises the structure and its solidity over the centuries. One colour image of the work is reproduced. VG+.

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18 Jan

Posted at 12:41h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2015
15 x 10.5cm, backing card with the title text EVERYDAY OBJECT on it and a tipped on paper calendar. The joke being the pun of course, Housed in original plastic folder. VG+ - a New Year gift from Bellingham to friends and colleagues - limitation not many. VG+. ...

15 Jan

Posted at 10:53h in Jonathan Monk

Bruxelles: MORE Publishers, 2015
A complete set of twelve 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcards - each sent one week apart to Paul Robertson. The image on the front is appropriated from the famous Richard Hamilton Whitley Bay postcard which the latter issued with hand-tinted additions from a b/w picture of the beach at the British holiday resort.
Hamilton issued two versions of this card - one as here and the other in the SMS (Shit Must Stop) portfolio in 1968 where the artist enlarged the original image time and time again to eventually isolate one figure of a woman in the final image.
Monk's reworking of the original starts with the first card being the same size and an exact reproduction of the original Hamilton card but each consecutive card posted monthly was enlarged by cropping out the printers border. This mirrors Hamilton's SMS publication only as mail art.
Each of the cards was sent to the same person (Robertson) and is signed by Monk and hand numbered from a total edition of 40 copies. Apart from any mailing marks (franking, stamps) this is a complete and VG+ group of one of Monk's most important mail art works.

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20 Dec

Posted at 10:51h in Jonathan Monk

Newcastle on Tyne: Locus +, 2014
21x 15cm, 4pp printed folder with gusset content of a small padded jiffy bag containing a broken glass Xmas ornament. Monk has created other works that consist of damaged items - including one work where he pour a glass of red wine on a collectors’ white long-pile carpet. One of 500 such works released by Locus+ as a Xmas gift/card.
JOINT: Original red posting envelope. Both in fine condition.

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17 Dec

Posted at 13:56h in Jonathan Monk

N.p. (Karlsruhe):Meyer Riegger Gallerie, 2013
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp Christmas card issued by the gallery - on the front is a sculptural work by Monk - "Together again alone by himself as someone else" which is a image of as Father Christmas but this also references Paul McCathy the artist who often portrays himself as Santa! Signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+.

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20 Nov

Posted at 09:13h in David Bellingham

21 x 15cm, black on white inkjet with found hand applied colours. A proposal for a unique artwork - a flag of all four British nations with the word "land" replaced by a colour although Wales also has a colour - this was never realised. A work promoting the idea of British commonality against the separatism of some Scottish politicians. Slight creases else VG. Unique.

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