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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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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Paris: Tornabuoni Art/Yvon Lambert, 2010
21 x 15cm, 4pp, Announcement card for the solo exhibition by Monk which took place during the major retrospective of the work of Alighiero Boetti in Paris. The car reproduces one of Boetti's Mappa works on the inside and back cover mentions the Monk show.
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21 X 15cm, 1pp invitation leaflet to the launch of the Boetti book "Catalogue General d'Alighiero Boetti". Typographic only.

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London: The Economist, 28th November 2009
30 x 21cm, 106pp plus wrappers. A single number of this important international financial magazine which contains a paid advert by Jonathan Monk on page 104 - "Keith Arnatt was an artist" under the "Business & Personal" section. Arnatt sometimes used commercial tv advertising for works. VG+.

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N.p.: n.p., n.d. (2009)
Small plastic, metal and paper button badge with the title text (which not only reflects the pin aspect of the badge but also other Monk works where pins are pushed through postcards and other items). Limitation unknown. Fine.

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