Jonathan Monk - Unoriginal Sins

05 Nov MINIMAL ARTISTS TRY TO MAKE SOMETHING LOOK LIKE NOTHING AND CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS TRY TO MAKE NOTHING LOOK LIKE SOMETHING OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND? 2004.

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NYC: Yvon Lambert, 2004
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a typographic design - a group show including work by Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Joan Jonas, On Kawara, Louse Lawler, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Dennis Oppenheim, Fred Sandback, Niele Toroni, Richard Tuttle and Lawrence Weiner. The exhibition was curated by Monk. VG+.

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04 Nov JONATHAN MONK. TIME EXPLAINED SUSPENDED LENGTHENED. 2004. SIGNED BY MONK.

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Munchen: Spruth Magers, 2004
10.5 x 21cm, 2pp. Die-cut typographic design announcement card with a mirrored front and verso gallery details. This example signed by Monk on the back with flet tipped pen. VG+.
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04 Nov & MILK. TODAY IS JUST A COPY OF YESTERDAY. 2004.

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Koln: Walther Konig, 2004
15.2 x 23.5cm, 64pp plus card covers. Artist's book where an initial slide of a glass of milk is duplicated, a duplicate was made of that duplicate, and so on, until there were 50 generations of the original image each becoming more blue in the colour range because of the flaws in the duplication method. Resolution and details are also lost. The book can also be seen as a flick-book with the pages creating a "movie" if flipped with the thumb. VG+ although there is a remnant of a price sticker on the back cover. One of 800.

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02 Nov COVER VERSION. 2004. SIGNED BY MONK ON A NOTE PUSHED INTO SHRINK WRAP.

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London: Book Works, 2004
19.7 x 15.8cm, 64pp plus 6 blank pages in different coloured paper stock. Artist's book with 48 colour images of artist's book in Monk's own collection - all conceptual art books by the likes of Weiner, Le Witt and Ruscha. The latter is interesting in that this book is similar to Ruscha's own publications which show bland, objective images and also Richard Price who displays record covers (Monk's punning title alludes to that). This is in VG+ condition and is a scarce book.
Monk has opened the shrink wrap and pushed a handwritten note into the package that says:" But which one is worth more? /Until then/JM." This is a reference to a second copy of the same book that Monk sent unopened in shrink wrap but signed on the plastic. VR+. Unique thus.

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17 Sep THE ARTIST’S BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE. 2004.

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Berlin: Galerie Anselm Dreher, 2004
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a typographic design listing the various artist's in the group show which includes John Armleder, Thomas Locher, Maurizio Nannucci, Karin Sander, Lawrence Weiner, Heimo Zobernig and Monk. ...

15 Aug NEWSPAPER GALERIE JAN MOT. 32, 33, 34. 2004. WITH MONK INTERVENTION.

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Bruxelles: Galerie Jan Mot, August/October 2004
21 x 15cm, 8pp. A single number of the gallery's newsletter which covers various exhibitions including here Monk's CANCELLED which has a large black on green photograph by the artist illustrating the announcement for the show "Cencelled Project Brussels". Also within the pages is a large Wolfgang Tillmans photograph of a naked woman's vulva and a text by the artist. 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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05 Aug EN/OF. 2004.

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Toronto: EN/OF, 2004
14 x 14cm, 2pp announcement card for series of artist's records issued where an artist was paired with a musician to create the work. Monk was paired with Tarentel and was nr 14 of the 23 releases. Other artists included Liam Gillick, Olafur ELiasson, Sarah Morris, Angela Bulloch, Carsten Hoeller, Simon Starling, Thomas Demand, Dan Graham, David Shrigley, Doug Aitken, Tacita Dean and others. VG+.

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06 Dec LOOKING THROUGH A HOLE LARGE ENOUGH FOR ME TO SEE YOU, BUT NOT LARGE ENOUGH FOR YOU TO SEE ME (ENLARGED) 1996 – 2003. 2003.

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Lyon:La Salle des Bains, 2003
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with one photograph by the artist on the front, verso gallery details. VG+.

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17 Nov UNTIL THEN. 2003. ONE OF 50 NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

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N.p.: Pin-up, 2003
2.5 x 2cm, backing card and plastic transparent bag content of a mounted 1.5cm lapel button badge (plastic and metal) with Monk's famous greeting "Until Then". Slight rusting to the badge due to damp which has affected the backing card but a scarce small object multiple.

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13 Nov TIME AND OR SPACE/NAMING TOKYO PART II. 2003.

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NYC: Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art, 2003
10.5 x 15cm, 4pp black and green on white announcement card for two shows - one by Aleksandra Mir and the other by Jonathan Monk. Typographic design throughout. VG+.

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17 Oct ONE OF TWO. 2003.

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Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2003
2.5 x 3 x 3cm (approx) wood and rubber stamp consisting of a reproduced image of the artist's right thumbprint. One of 65 signed and numbered (on a certificate) examples from the important British conceptual artist (and curator) Monk. Referencing Manzoni (who often stamped works with his thumbprint), and, perhaps indirectly, Warhol - the idea of the unique re-made as a multiple was never before more apposite as here. Fine condition.
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02 Oct MEETING #27. 2003.

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Berlin: Revolver Books, 2003
8 x 20cm, 2pp printed card with one of Monk's meeting works on the front - "10 de Abril de 2010 al medio dia Edgar Allan Poe esq. Shakepare Col. Nueva Anzuren Mexico D.F." which is repeated twice in a typewriter font. One the reverse publisher's details. One of 5,000 such cards printed. VG+.

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