Vancouver: Lynn Valley 3, 2007
18 x 24cm, unpaginated (approx. 48pp) plus card covers. Artist’s photobook which displays images taken from within the crowd at a Morrissey gig. Each colour image is mirrored in facing pages and most of the images are of people’s back of heads. This example is signed by Monk on the front cover in thick black felt tipped pen. Fine.
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NYC: Printed Matter, 2007
30 x21cm, 1pp offset lithographic b/w print reproducing a letter from Roger Bywater to Monk asking him to produce a limited edition print for the Printed Matter NYC artist's book fair. Monk simply reproduced the letter and released it in an unnumbered edition (probably around 500) but signed in pencil bottom right. VG+ although very mild handling soft creases.
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n.p. (NYC): n.p., 2007
22 x 14cm, unpaginated (8pp, printed as foldout one side only). Self cover. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue as such which is a direct reprint of the original Daniel Buren public performance hand-out with Monk having over printed by hand using a rubber stamp the new updated title as conceived by the younger artist. This copy is signed in blue pen on the cover of the book.
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23.5 x 29.5cm, watercolour and ballpoint pen on commercially prepared canvas. A painting based on the outline of Monk's hand with highly coloured and ornate butterflies replacing the fingertips and the handwritten text "IF YOU CAN'T PAINT, HIRE SOMEONE WHO CAN!". Signed and dated and
titled and the media also noted all in pencil on the rear canvas edge. The work seems to reference Martin Kippenberger who often hired painters to make his works and also images taken from well known arte povera and Damien Hirst works
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A hand written note in pencil address to Paul Robertson offering the painting as payment /trade for an item purchased - a provenance document. Slightly rippled.
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An unique full colour photographic print - 24 x 31cm - a 6 image contact print from the original photographs used to create the book ONE IN ONE HUNDRED (CHILD). This is signed and dated "Jonathan Monk 2010" in blue ink on the reverse of the photograph. Fine.
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Paris: One Star Press, 2007
14 x 22.5cm, 150pp plus card covers. Artist's book which has been hand-wrapped in white semi-transparent paper and scotch tape (by Monk as a deliberate intervention) copy of the title book (which in itself was released by One Star Press in a very small edition of only 250 copies) with the back of the wrapped paper signed in blue ink - the whole being meant to remain unopened and therefore the internal pages unread. The book reproduces 100 times the front cover of the book which in its turn reproduces the cover image from a box of Ilford photographic paper (a stock image of a child).
Together Monk has created a means by which the internal aspect of the book can be viewed without disrupting the deliberate wrapping (a la Christo). The book should be displayed (obviously) unopened alongside the contact print. Unique. A gift from the artist to Paul Robertson.
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Copenhagen:Galleri Nicolai Wallner, 2007
30 x 42cm, 1pp small colour poster for Monk's Danish exhibition where the works are highly influenced by Ellesworth Kelly with an overprinted text on the minimalist corner paintings. Folded for mailing else VG+.
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Berlin: Haus an Waldsee 2006 60 x 21, 1pp offet lithographic exhibition poster with one work reproduced on the front with gallery text. Signed by Monk on the back. VG+. ...
London: Lisson Gallery, 2006
Two, 30 x 21cm, 1pp - a gallery hand out for the solo exhibition by Monk and a price list for the works. Both VG+.
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London: Lisson Gallery, 2006
21 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a major solo show. One work in colour on front, gallery details on reverse. VG+.
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Val-De-Marne: MAC VAL, 2006
21 x 15cm, 28pp plus wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a neo-conceptualist show with 8 colour and b/w images of Monk's neon works reproduced - each work displays the opening hours of a gallery - and are switched on during those advertised times by a timer built into the work. Short essay and interview with Monk in French and english. This book is signed on the colophon page in pencil by Monk. VG+.
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Nurnberg: Kunsthalle Nurnberg, 2006
21 x 10cm, 6pp announcement card/leaflet for a solo show with 4 works illustrated in colour and a short text in English and German. VG+.
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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+. ...