Berlin: Haubrok Foundation, 2010
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp printed b/w postcard with a hand-drawn line in yellow highlighter pen by Monk with instructions to "install this postcard on any wall with the pencil line six feet above the floor". A self portrait of the artist of sorts. One of 59 copies plus 10 A/ps. of this object multiple which is signed on the reverse in pen. VG+.
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Little Sparta/Heidelberg-Berlin: Wild Hawthorn Press/ Kehrer Verlag, 2010
24.5 x 16cm, 112pp, plus pictorial boards. Photographic book contrasting Ian Hamilton Finlay's two major gardens, Little Sparta in Scotland, and Fleur de l'Air in France with 70 colour illustrations. VG+.
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Bremen: Stiftung Bremer Bildhauerpreis, 2010 21 x 10cm, 8pp. Announcement brochure for the major public installation where large bill boards displaying close up views of anonymous people's eyes were place in various sites in Bremen. Fourteen small b/w images of the works reproduced and text in German. VG+. ...
Berlin: Little and Large Editions, 2010 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a limited edition by Monk jointly with Ariel Schlesigner with a photograph of the work on the front. VG+. ...
Berlin: Haubrokshows, 2010
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp. Announcement card for a joint show with Klaus Merkel - the front of the card is a text in English by Merkel and on the back of the card Monk has simply mirrored the text such that it reads right to left. This is a strategy Monk has used in other works - reflection. Internally gallery text. VG+.
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Polígrafa Obra Gráfica, 2010 47 x 57.5cm, Portfolio with 11 lithographs each with a number from 1 to 11 printed in the respective number of colours of the number i.e. 6 has 6 overlapping different colours. We assumed the choice of 11 numbers reflects the number of players in a football team and the whole in in a printed card box with a centre circle from a football pitch design however we asked Jonathan Monk and he replied: "the piece was not really supposed to relate to football but the publisher is a big Barcelona fan and he proposed the football related portfolio...
Berlin: Meyer Riegger, 2010
21 x 15cm, 44pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book which displays 15 colour images of then modern electrical devices in vitrines. A direct reference to Jeff Koon's presentation of Hoovers and other electrics in the 1990s. There is a foreword text by Monk in English and German.
The catalogue is signed in pencil by Monk on the inside first page. VG+.
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Berlin: Meyer Riegger, 2010
21 x 15cm, 2pp, black on yellow press release from the gallery for the show. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, n.d.
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a posthumous exhibition of prints. One work - SEAMS - on the front. VG+.
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Paris: Point d'ironie/Agnes b, 2010
43.4 x 30.7cm, 8pp, A single number of the artist's periodical which invites a single artist to create an artist's book. This is one of two such publications by Boltanski in the series - he also did number 26, eight years earlier. The pages display one of the artist's major installations in the Palais des Beaux-arts in Paris where he massed vast numbers of second-hand clothing. Folded for storage else VG+. Published in a large edition size of 10,000 copies and distributed in the various boutique of Agnes b.
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30 x 21cm, 1pp inkjet output printed in black, green and purple with the overlapped text "I got up at 6.45am" - a reference to the work of On Kawara - and also stamped in green ink from a hotel's address stamp - to reference Kippenberger's hotel stationery drawings - and two gouache paintings of a rough square and a circle. There are three collage elements - one an Arabic postal stamp which is glued to the paper and two unattached items - a German transport ticket and a photographic booth self portrait of the artist. Additionally the paper has a rust mark on the left which seems to have come from an old rust paper clip.
The work (which brings together associations from the work of a number of different conceptual artists) is signed in pencil "JM10" bottom right. A gift from the artist to Paul Robertson. Unique.
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Wilkieston: Jupiter Artland, 2010
21 x 15cm, 2pp. Promotional leaflet for a large scale sculpture garden with one work by Finlay reproduced in colour on the back amongst others. VG+.
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NYC: Park Avenue Armory, 2010 27 x 19cm, 8pp (single sheet, opens out to 38 x 54cm). Exhibition brochure which when open displays a poster photograph of one of Boltanski's clothing installations as well on the outside a tin box installation. This was Boltanski's most ambitious project in the States to date with a number of different works displayed in the 55,000 square foot building. VG+. ...