Tel Aviv: Dvir Gallery, 2010
15 x 21cm, 2pp printed announcement card with an image of a woman cycling with two bikes (one being empty) and with a striped scarf. The "ghost rider" of the title presumably indicating the empty seat. But the references of duality (two bikes) and the striped scarf are Boetti and Buren. Text in reverse in Hebrew. VG+.
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38 x 34cm, black silkscreen on cream cotton plus handles. The text is from an email from "Axel" seemingly about a technical issue in printing but on reading it is hard to follow and seems wrong. On one side of the bag is it printed in reverse (mirrored) white on black and on the other the text while the right way round is heavily broken up. Both sides are very difficult to read.. Slightly faded but else VG+. This example is signed by Monk in black felt tipped pen on the reversed side. Edition size not known.
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Paris: Alice Traval & FLorence Loewy, 2010
120 x 150cm, white silkscreen on green cotton. The text reads
A TIME
&
A PLAVE
AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE
The work is banner and flag at the same time although the instruction is to pin the work to the wall rather than fly it on a pole. A reference to the work of conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, the banner's text is also a "meeting" text - suggesting a generalised description of a place and time.
This is one of 40 examples alongside 10 artist's proofs - each signed and numbered on a separate paper certificate. In original 23 x 36 x 4cm two part heavy cardboard box with tipped on printed label. VG+.
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Berlin: BQ, 2010
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp, Announcement card for exhibition and book launch - the two sides of the card are both typographic but on the back Monk has mirrored the front of the card. Additionally Monk has signed both sides of the card in pencil but on the back his signature is approximately in reverse also. Unique thus due to the signatures. VG+.
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Berlin : BW, 2000.
21 x 15cm, 32pp plus wrappers. A single issue of the BQ magazine (nr 13) dedicated to Monk which consists of a series of colour photographs of a Monk book exhibition opposite to a sex store EROTICA in Berlin. The images on the front of the book show the store and the exhibition - the images at the back of the book show images from the sex shop. Both reflect each other because the two buildings share a mirrored structure. VG+.
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Basel: Little and Large Editions, 2010
11cm dia black on white beer mat with a design by Monk and Gordon. Unlimited edition. VG+.
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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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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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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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