Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2005.
15 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a Parisian post box One of a series of similar conceptual mail art works by Monk where the card is meant to be posted from the same postbox. A mailed and signed example sent to Paul Robertson from Canada. VG+....
Bremen: Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2005
20.3 x 20.3 x 14cm, two part white box content of an artist's book and an unique glazed coffee mug with a text on the outside - deliberately printed upside down.
The book - OCEAN WAVE - is 21 x 15cm, 244pp plus card covers but the cover has been torn off by the artist and replaced inside the book. The book is a physical reminder of Bas Jan Ader's suicidal trip in trying to sail back to Europe single handedly from America as well as films made by Monk where he tried to make beer commercials. The book is entirely designed by the artist and has overlapping images from the films as well as blank pages.
The mug has a quotation from a short story about a true life event by Lawrence Elliot called "The Boy Who Plunged Over Niagara":
"Deanne, awed by the tumultuous river, which she had seen only once, was reluctant. But with little Roger jumping with glee, and her mother urging her to go along --- "You'll have a chance for a swim at Lynch's later --- Deanne changed into a bathing suit, and the three set out." and is unique to this mug. Other mugs had different quotations from the story on them. It is signed by Monk and dated 2005 on the bottom.
The book and the quotation both deal in part with drowning (although the boy and his sister survived the capsize the adult with them did not. And the quotation being upside down means that to read it the mug has to be capsized in some sense also. One presumes Ader drowned after a capsize in the Atlantic as well.
This is unique in the series (although the book was released as a separate edition at the exhibition in Bremen. The top of the box is signed and numbered by Monk also. Sadly because of contamination from another Monk work (A box of cheese) with which it was stored temporarily the box has heavy foxing on all sides. But this does not affect the mug or the book.
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Bignam: Domaine de Kerguéhennec, 2005
24 x 18.4cm, 206pp plys endpapers and boards. Exhibition catalogue for the solo exhibition "Family of Man" which has essays and texts by Claude Closky, David Shrigley, Pierre Bismuth, Ceal Floer, Edward Rusha and Jon Baldessari. Illustrated in colour throughout with works by Monk. This example is signed on the first blank endpaper by Monk in pencil. VG+.
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Paris: Yvon Lamber, 2005
15 x 21cm, 2pp artist designed announcement card with an image of installation of a photograph of Daniel Buren in the Guggenheim . This example is signed by Monk on the reverse in pencil. VG+.
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Miami: The Moore Space, 2005
12.2 x 18cm, 2pp announcement card for a project by Monk where some vintage slides of Florida originally owned by Monk's father included the image of a red bathing suited woman jumping into the sea - Monk with students tried to recreate this scene in real life and record it in film and slide projection. VG+.
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Chapultpec: Galeria de Arte Mexicano, 2005 21 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a group show which included works by Josef Albers, Martin creed, Tina Modotti, Gunther Gerzco and others. VG+. ...
Avignon: Collection Lambert en Avignon, 2005
15 x 15 x 15cm, espresso coffee cup and saucer with an image of Warhol on the inside of the bottom of the cup and the title "I saw Andy Warhol at the bottom of my cup for a second, then he vanished." on the saucer. A limited edition object multiple which reminds the owner of the short timescale of Warhol's famous dictum that "in the future everyone will be famlus for 15 minutes."...
Nantes: Erban, 205
15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card with a photograph by Monk on the front of someone modifying a turntable. Verso gallery details. This example is signed by Monk on the back.
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Rome: The British School at Rome, 2005
20 x 14.5cm, folded size. Opens to 42 x 58cm approx. Artist designed exhibition catalogue and poster -b/w photograph of a two Afghanistan mules in a landscape is recto and verso gallery details and a text in Italian and English regarding Monk's debt to Boetti (who is buried in Afghanistan). This copy is unusually signed in pencil on the front cover by Monk. Fine.
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Rome: British School at Rome, 2005
24 x 17cm, 44pp plus wrappers. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue designed by Monk with numerous colour images of photographs of Afghanistan taken by a Monk surrogate from his rear view car mirror and a film about Monk's understanding of the place where Boetti wanted to be buried after his death. There is an interview between Monk and Boetti's son and short essays all in both Italian and English. This copy of this early book is signed by Monk on the first page. VG+.
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Berlin: BuroFriedrich, 2004
30 x 42cm, small exhibition poster and mailer for an exhibition where famous conceptual art works are shown in small detail - the poster shows the "thumbs up" by Jan DIbbet's in the latter's famous postcard work. This example is signed in pencil by Monk on the front. VG+. ...
Torino: Galleria Sonia Rosso, 2004
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a negative photographic image of a cat, verso gallery details. VG+.
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