Jonathan Monk - Unoriginal Sins

19 May UNTITLED (BUTTERFLY HAND). 2007. UNIQUE PAINTING.

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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
JOINT:
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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19 May CONTACT PRINT (ONE IN A HUNDRED (CHILD). 2007. UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPH WITH WRAPPED SIGNED BOOK.

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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. JOINT
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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11 May JONATHAN MONK. 2007.

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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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08 Dec YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW ETC. 2006. SIGNED BY MONK.

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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+. ...

29 Nov SECOND HAND. 2006.

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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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28 Nov SECOND HAND. 2006.

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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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13 Oct GALLERY HOURS. 2006. SIGNED BY MONK.

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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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09 Sep YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW ETC. 2006.

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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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26 Aug 1, 82. 2006. WITH HANDWRITTEN SIGNED NOTE FROM MONK TO PAUL ROBERTSON ON THE BACK.

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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+. ...

20 Aug PICTURE POSTCARD POSTED FROM POST BOX PICTURED. TORONTO. 2006. SIGNED BY MONK ON REVERSE.

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Toronto: Nothing Else Press, 2006
14.8 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a Toronto 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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15 Aug NEWSPAPER GALERIE JAN MOT. 48, 49. 2006. WITH MONK INTERVENTION.

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Bruxelles: Galerie Jan Mot, January 2006
21 x 15cm, 8pp. A single number of the gallery's newsletter which covers various exhibitions and also reproduces Monk's Picture Postcard Posted from Post Box Pictured in Brussels which the gallery is publishing. Additionally various paragraphs have been removed by Monk by overprinting of a white column hence also this has elements of being an artist's book. VG+.

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19 Jul THE ENDLESS SEARCH FOR PERFECTION. 2006. UNIQUE WITHIN A SERIES.

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N.p: Edition Monopol, 2006
40 x 29cm, found aluminium coat hanger which has been shaped by hand by Monk in attempt to create a perfect circle underneath the hanger. Such a task is near impossible and the title hints at the hopelessness of the venture. One of a series of such works (unlimited) which comes with a signed certificate of authenticity from Monk. VG+.

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