Bruxelles: MORE publishers, 2012
30 x 20 x 8cm transparent perspex with two "DiamondPlate™ anodized aluminum" door signs mounted either side - on one side the word PUSH and on the other PULL. The sign has no other means of attaching it to any item or means to push or pull. This is one of 20 (plus 3 artist's proofs) examples - each signed and numbered. VG+.
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London: Three Star Books, 2012
Twenty "royal sheets" - each 50.8 x 63.5cm - that together make up a 203.2 x 317.5cm billboard (requiring construction and a wooden backing board that were not supplied by Monk) and a bound book - in Royal Folio size - 50.8 x 31.7cm, with 80pp and boards. The pages of the book are exactly the same as the pages in the bill board only cut differently.
The text on both the billboard and in the book is a description of the billboard and book, the processes that were required to make both, the formats used in the typography and other aspects of the production and details about the artist and the publishers.
There were five different formats to the book of which only five copies of each format were made (plus another 3 artist's proofs of each size and another 3 copies of each size hors commerce.
A huge in so many ways production and an ambitious artist's book in various versions.
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Wein: Kunsthalle Wein, 2012
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp, announcement card for a group show with Monk's neon work "Strongman" reproduced on the front, verso museum details. Signed in pencil by the artist on the reverse. VG+.
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Berlin: Lempertz, 2012
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcard which has an image of a Monk work "Black Paint under Thumb Twice" on the front in colour and verso edition details. A work donated by the artist for a charity auction. Monk has signed this card on the back in pencil. VG+.
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Paris: Annual Editions, 2012
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcard which has an image of the Monk edition on the front in colour and verso edition details. Monk has signed this card on the back in pencil. VG+.
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Hamburg: NCL_Stiftung, 2012
21 x 10cm, 6pp announcement leaflet for a charity auction - Monk had contributed a work which is reproduced on the front of the leaflet. Monk has signed this leaflet underneath the image. VG+.
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Sotteville-les-Rouen: FRAC Haute--Normandie, 2012
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show that reproduces Monk's The Artist Covered in a Selection of his Sol Lewitt Books (Afte Ed Ruscha), 2000 on the front. This card is signed by Monk in pencil on the back.
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20 x 18cm transparent bag containing a Dr Winkler "handtrainer" and printed leaflet/label. The "hand trainer" being a inflatable double thick blue plastic bag which is intended to be a means of building strength in one's hands by regular squeezing. This was sent by Monk to Paul Robertson in return for a Kippenberger inflatable object multiple that Monk purchased from Robertson's Heart Fine Art. Essentially a readymade unique artwork.
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Original hand addressed (by Monk) mailing envelope (which had originally been sent to Jonathan Monk by Ryan Gander and was hand addressed by that artist0. ...
N.p.: n.p., 2011
Ten different 60 x 42cm offset lithographic posters - each printed on a different colour paper, each with the phrase "TEN POSTERS TEN LANGUAGES TEN COLOURS TEN WORDS TEN EUROS" printed on them letterpress but in 10 different languages. This is one of only 50 signed sets (on the grey poster). VG+.
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Berlin: Meyer Riegger, 2011 21 x 18cm, 36pp plus card covers and printed wrap-around dustjacket which is only 2/3rd the size of the book. The wrap around has a photograph of a cyclist riding with two bikes at once. The exhibition catalogue for a joint show with Ariel Schlesinger but which is also an artist's book. The front cover of the book has the only text (and gallery information) and internally the pages are near continuous images of the exhibition installation. The book's format is similar in some ways to later Monk shows where the walls of the show display wallpaper with installation views from earlier shows. VG+. ...
N.p.: Paul & Wendy Editions, 2011
14.8 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a Winnipeg 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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Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2011 A 2.5 x 3 x 3cm (approx) wood and rubber stamp consisting of a reproduced image of the artist's left thumbprint. One of 65 signed and numbered (on a certificate) examples from the important British conceptual artist Monk. Referencing Manzoni (who often stamped works with his thumbprint), and, perhaps indirectly, Warhol with the idea of the unique re-made as a multiple was never before more apposite as here. In 2003 the other half of this two-part artwork ONE OF TWO (with the stamp being of the right thumb print) was published as one of the first Show & Tell Editions. Fine condition....