paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

26 Aug 1, 82. 2006. WITH HANDWRITTEN SIGNED NOTE FROM MONK TO PAUL ROBERTSON ON THE BACK.

Posted at 17:31h in Jonathan Monk

Berlin: Haubrokshows, 2006 30 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show with contributions from Douglas Gordon, Peter Puller, Simon Starling, Christopher Williams, Edgar Arceneaux and Cezary Bodzianowski as well as Monk. One of Monk's portraits of Axel Haubrok is reproduced on the front and verso alongside gallery details is a hand-written note from Monk to Paul Robertson about various items sent by Monk to the latter. SLight marks else VG+. ...

20 Aug PICTURE POSTCARD POSTED FROM POST BOX PICTURED. TORONTO. 2006. SIGNED BY MONK ON REVERSE.

Posted at 16:11h in Jonathan Monk

Toronto: Nothing Else Press, 2006
14.8 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a Toronto post box where the card was posted. One of a long series of similar cards sent from all over the world. This example is signed on the reverse by Monk but has not been posted from the mailbox. VG+.

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15 Aug NEWSPAPER GALERIE JAN MOT. 48, 49. 2006. WITH MONK INTERVENTION.

Posted at 17:31h in Jonathan Monk

Bruxelles: Galerie Jan Mot, January 2006
21 x 15cm, 8pp. A single number of the gallery's newsletter which covers various exhibitions and also reproduces Monk's Picture Postcard Posted from Post Box Pictured in Brussels which the gallery is publishing. Additionally various paragraphs have been removed by Monk by overprinting of a white column hence also this has elements of being an artist's book. VG+.

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23 Jul FREE RUNNING TABLE TALK. 2006.

Posted at 09:12h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: WAX336, 2006
15 x 7.5cm, 2pp. Artist's postcard with a slightly adapted image of a table salt label from a grocer's store called Costcutters (common in Scotland), The original "TABLE SALT" has bee changed to "TABLE TALK" so that the card indicates a fun meal. VG+.

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22 Jul END OF WEEK TWO. MORE RAGE. 2006. UNIQUE DRAWING. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.

Posted at 18:38h in David Bellingham

27 x 11cm, 1pp. Original ink on white paper drawing which consists of the word SHIT placed into a 4 x 4 matrix and some of the letters replaced by Xs. A unique concrete poem. Signed and dated in pencil on the back by Bellingham. VG+

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19 Jul THE ENDLESS SEARCH FOR PERFECTION. 2006. UNIQUE WITHIN A SERIES.

Posted at 10:58h in Jonathan Monk

N.p: Edition Monopol, 2006
40 x 29cm, found aluminium coat hanger which has been shaped by hand by Monk in attempt to create a perfect circle underneath the hanger. Such a task is near impossible and the title hints at the hopelessness of the venture. One of a series of such works (unlimited) which comes with a signed certificate of authenticity from Monk. VG+.

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15 Jul MISTAKES MISTAKES MISTAKES. 2006. ONE OF ONLY 9 SIGNED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

Posted at 10:37h in Jonathan Monk

n.p.: Neue Review, 2006
16 x 11.4cm, 2pp art postcard published by DIA in NYC displaying one of Alighiero E Boetti's world map tapestries (from the exhibition Worlds Envisioned). The card comes with a blue lapiz lazuli tipped earring. All are found in a manilla bard backed envelope - 23 x 16cm, with printed label which explains how the work should be presented: "Using the attached earring please pin the post card directly to the walk through the hole provided."
The hole in the card is in Afghanistan where Boetti had many of his tapestries made by artisans and also is buried. The blue earring is also heavily associated with the region. This is a remembrance of the artist in many ways.
This is one of only 9 examples - each signed and numbered by Monk in pencil on the back of the postcard. VG+

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07 Jul YES BRUCE NAUMAN. 2006.

Posted at 11:24h in Jonathan Monk

NYC: Zwirner & Wirth, 2006
20.5 x 20.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show honouring Bruce Nauman with work by a wide number of artists including Jonathan Monk. The front image is by Jessica Diamond. VG+.

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25 Jun TIME.

Posted at 21:24h in MONOGRAPHS

Ostfildern. Hatje Cantz. 2006
22.5 x 28.5cm, 156pp plus boards and pictorial dustjacket published in conjunction with the exhibition at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Edited by Ralf Beilwith essays by Aleida Assman, Samuel Becket, Rald Beil, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Tadeusz Kantor, Gabriel Ramin Schor, W. G. Sebald, Werner Spies, and Andrei Tarkovsky, as well as an interview with the artist. Illustrated in colour (86) and b/w throughout. Probably the best of the later monographs on the artist. VG+>

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21 Jun A WALK PAST STANDING SWIMMING POOLS. 2006.

Posted at 16:39h in Jonathan Monk

N.p.: s.p. (Monk), 2006 9 x 6cm, outer folder with tipped in 6pp accordion sheet with five colour images of swimming pool bases being stored on their side with one blank page. The book references both Richard Long's A Walk Past Standing Stones and Ed Ruscha's Nine Swimming Pools and a Glass of Milk (which also has one blank page in it). A visual joke as much as a neo-conceptual work. Slight sealed tear to folder along the bottom else VG+. Scarce....

21 Jun WHAT IS NOT HERE I DIDN’T HAVE OR COULD NOT FIND. UNIQUE WORK c. 2006. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 13:26h in Jonathan Monk

N.p. (Berlin): S.p., n.d. (c. 2006) 23 x 16.5cm, 1pp. Handwritten text: "WHAT IS NOT HERE I DIDN'T HAVE OR COULD NOT FIND" on thick cardboard - initialled by Monk. Original small work. ...

20 Jun IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1925 – 2006. IN MEMORIAM CARD.

Posted at 12:42h in Artist's Postcards

Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2006
19 x 8cm, 2pp card. This is the memorial card given out at the public memorial service for Ian Hamilton Finlay in Greyfriars Kirk. The front of the card reproduces a painting of flowers called HOROLOGE DE FLORE - which is a flower clock. Time having run out for the poet. This is, to our mind, the last of the "official" cards released by the Press although some were released posthumously as part of exhibitions or as fund=raising efforts. VG+.

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