Glasgow: Wax366, 2002
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist postcard displaying a photograph of a neon work by Simon Cutts. The neon was theoretically meant to be powered by wind turbine. The text reads: "Found the pomes in the fields and only wrote them down." VG+.
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Karlsruhe: Meyer Riegger Galerie, 2002
21 x 9.9cm, single sheet folded to 12pp which opens to 42 x 29.5cm. Announcement and exhibition poster printed on grey paper which internally notes over a flat sheet of grey that the first public exhibition of Daniel Buren's vertically striped paintings in Paris at the Galerie Fournier in March 1966. This leaflet is signed by Monk on the front in pencil. VG+.
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Copenhagen: Galleri NIcolai Wallner, 2002 30 x 42cm, 1pp black and brown offset lithographic exhibition poster with one b/w photograph of a family party above gallery information. This example is signed boldly by Monk in red felt tipped pen. Folded as issued for mailing, else VG+....
Glasgow: WAX366, 2002
19.7 x 13cm, 64pp plus card covers. An anthology of poems by Finlay edited by Thomas A. Clark and published by David Bellingham. The works are often more traditional in format although some are concrete. VG+.
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Pittenweem: Pittenweem Arts Festival, 2002
15 x 21cm, 1pp typographic announcement and invite card for the opening of the exhibition. Notes FInlay's long association with the Festival since 1982. VG+.
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Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 2002
15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show on neo-conceptual art including British artists Jim Lambie, Kenny MacLoed, Francis Stark and Monk as well as works by Sol Lewitt. Typographic design on front, verso details in Dutch. VG+.
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Milano: Charta, Date: 2002
24 x 17cm, 72pp plus picotiral card covers. Monograph cum exhibition catalogue on the occasion of a major installation by the artist in the Palermo Monte di Pieta. Vestments are hung with images of faces on them, a shadow play installation, a floor covered in flowers and the wonderful wooden walls of the building with various commemorative portraits surrounded by bulbs and their associated wiring are reproduced in b/w and colour at the back of the catalogue preceeded by a text by Sergio Troisi in English and Italian. VG+
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Edinburgh: Polygon Pocketbooks, 2002
17 x 12.5cm, unpaginated (c. 200pp) plus card covers. An anthology of supposed "counter culture" in Scotland although it is really a survey of Scottish art some of which is hardly that radical. Finlay has a few pages relating to the Little Sparta Wards and two work included. Edited by Ross Birrell and Alec Finlay (Ian's son). VG+.
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London: South London Gallery, 2002 15 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a group show with Joost Conikn, mark Dean, marko Maetamm, Arturas Raila, Milica Tomic and Sarah Tripp as well as Monk. On the front of the card is a Monk "meeting" work - "Fez's Cafe 42 Peckham Road London Thursday 18 July 2002 breakfast". This card is signed in red ink on the back by Monk. VG+. ...
Paris: Point d'ironie/Agnes b, 2002
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 50 8 years later. The pages of the tabloid do not register other than a general shape when looked at in isolation but when one opens up the pages and conjoins the sheets one can see an appropriated vintage b/w photograph of an unidentified man and a woman. Folded for storage else VG+. Somewhat scarce despite the large edition size of 10,000 copies.
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Frankfurt: Revolver, 2002
20.5 x 15.5cm, unpagainated (80pp) plus wrappers and printed semi-opaque dust-wrapper which is printed on both sides (so that some text is read through the paper). Monk's artist book displays the gaps between the blocks on the Sunset Strip - thus "filling in" the bits of the street that were not reproduced in Ed Ruscha's famous original photo-book. One of 500 published but this is a hard to find publication. Some minor wear to the dustjacket and the odd small strain but else VG+.
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Frankfurt am Main: Revolverle, 2002
13 x 12cm, unpaginated (approx. 48pp) plus card covers. Artist’s book consisting of reproduced letters created by (Danish variety) potato print that read sequentially POTATO PRINT SPELLS POTATO PRINT. This is one of 500 copies but this is signed in pencil by Monk on the half title page. Fine.
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