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22 Sep MONUMENT ROUGE. 2009.

Posted at 16:05h in EPHEMERA

Zurich: ProLitteris, 2009
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the title installation in colour from 1985.

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20 Sep PICTURE POSTCARD POSTED FROM POST BOX PICTURED. TURIN. 2009.

Posted at 16:45h in Jonathan Monk

Turin:Galleria Sonia Rosso, 2009
15 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a post box in Turin. One of a series of similar conceptual mail art works by Monk where the card is meant to be posted from the same postbox. This example is unmailed but has the city name written on the back in pencil by Monk. VG+....

19 Aug A MODEL OF ORDER. 2009.

Posted at 10:21h in Artist's Books

Glasgow: WAX366, 2009
19.7 x 13cm, 64pp plus card covers. An anthology of letters and texts by Finlay on "poetry and making" edited by Thomas A. Clark and published by David Bellingham. VG+.

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18 Aug JONATHAN MONK SHOPS AT THE STORE. 2009.

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Torino: The Store, 2009
38 x 34cm, black silkscreen on cream cotton pus handles. One of a number of such bags where Monk indicates his interest in their products by his simple endorsement. Slightly faded but else VG+.

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09 Jul THE POSSIBLE LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 2009.

Posted at 15:28h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Boston: MFA Publications, 2009
21 x 15cm, 240pp plus boards and dust jacket. A biography of sorts based on a long interview between the artist and Catherine Grenier. Sixteen b/w plates of works and photographs of the artist. A very useful reference and probably as close to an honest recounting of the history of the artist's life (although memory seems to have caused some incorrect recollections of particularly early activities based on documentation we hold in this archive). Near fine.

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01 Jul NOTHING IS HAPPENING. c. 2009. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 11:16h in Jonathan Monk

N.p.: n.p., n.d. (c. 2009?)
7.5 x 14cm, 1pp announcement card with the title of the show and the dates but not the year on it. Signed on the back by Monk in pencil. VG+.

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28 Jun 40W 60W 100W. 2009.

Posted at 18:09h in David Bellingham

Loch Ruthven: HICA, 2009
10 x 15cm, 2pp colour announcement card for an exhibition with the work 40W 60W 100W on the front - a lime, lemon and orange are written with power levels on them in black felt tip pen. A mailed example addressed to Paul Robertson. Slight scuff caused by mailing on the front.

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25 Jun UNTITLED. I (HEART) PORN. 2009. UNIQUE PAINTED T-SHIRT.

Posted at 18:23h in Jonathan Monk

XL red cotton t-shirt with printed image of the artist with one of his works (Rabbit) which has had a blue circle painted on it, below a Koons plastic sticker has been ironed on and two button badges (one being from Specific Object and the other reads "I (HEART) PORN". This is a unique work made for an exhibition in New York in 2009 at Specific Object. Signed and dated in ink on the back. One of the badges has some foxing on it but else VG+.

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22 Jun MENSCHLICH/LES SWISS MORTES. 2009.

Posted at 16:26h in EPHEMERA

Zurich: ProLitteris, 2009
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the two installations (both in same gallery room) in colour from 1985....

20 Jun IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 2009

Posted at 10:41h in Invitation Cards

Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, 2009
30 x 21cm, 2pp. Gallery handout with short texts on the various works exhibited. Folded VG+....

20 Jun IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 2009.

Posted at 10:25h in Invitation Cards

Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, 2009
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a colour photographic portrait of Finlay from 1988 on the front. VG+....

04 Jun STUDIO VISIT. 2009.

Posted at 00:01h in Jonathan Monk

Zurich: Christoph Keller Editions, 2009
10 x 15cm, 154pp plus card covers. Artist's book displaying 37 colour and 69 b/w images of Monk's Richard Prince collection of books and other works in the artist's studio. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Richard Prince and the Revolution" curated by Jonathan Monk at Projecte SD, Barcelona. VG+.

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