Berlin: s.p. (Monk), 2018 87 x 60cm, 1pp offset lithographic street poster produced by Monk and posted on walls in Berlin appropriating text from gallerist David Zeirner about sculptor Franz West. One of two related textual posters about West. Limitation not known - this example is VG+ and signed by Monk bottom right. ...
Krems: Kunsthalle Krems, 2017 21 x 14.8cm, 6pp announcement card for a themed show about appropriation art. Monk's take on Jeff Koon's silver Rabbit (Monk has his version deflated as if a balloon). Internally other images by artists and a short text by Naoko Kaltschmidt. VG+. This example is signed boldly in black felt tipped pen by Jonathan Monk on the back of the card where the same image of this work is printed in reflection. ...
Bruxelles: & More Publishers, 2017
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp hand made artist's postcard issued as part of the "Postal Service Series" - each card by Monk having a different artist's name rubber stamped underneath the offset printed text: "This postcard has been influenced by the work of". Here: MICHAEL ASHER the conceptual artist. The card is signed in full by Monk in pencil on the back. A unique (within a series) mail art work. Similar works by Monk were issued originally in 2003. VG+.
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Paris: Collection 3 per Mathieu Mercier, 2017 8.5 x 6.5cm, multicolour thread embroidered badge with various stripe of different colours. Limited edition (size unknown) which sold out quickly. Fine in unopened plastic bag....
Belgium: Dvir Gallery, 2017
21 x 15cm, 44pp plus printed wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a show where Monk displayed enlarged sections of a Michelangelo Pistoletto photograph "Il cane di Pistoletto" which is a b/w image of the artist's dog. This copy is signed on the title page by Monk in blue felt tipped pen. VG+.
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Bruxelles: MOREpublishers, 2017
Two different printed envelopes - both DL - 11 x 21.5cm. The two have texts on the front - respectively AN ENVELOPE BY JONATHAN MONK INSIDE AN ENVELOPE BY MICAH LEXIER in red and AN ENVELOPE BY MICAH LEXIER INSIDE AN ENVELOPE BY JONATHAN MONK in blue. Each envelope has the other inside it.
Signed and numbered by Monk and Lexier on the back from an edition of 50 examples. This is the "European" edition version where the envelopes differ in size from the "North American" version.
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Original printed cardboard mailer with the work title and publisher's details. All VG+.
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Bruxelles: Paul + Wendy Productions, 2017 Two different printed envelopes - both DL - 10.5 x 23.5cm. The two have texts on the front - respectively AN ENVELOPE BY JONATHAN MONK INSIDE AN ENVELOPE BY MICAH LEXIER in red and AN ENVELOPE BY MICAH LEXIER INSIDE AN ENVELOPE BY JONATHAN MONK in blue. Each envelope has the other inside it. Signed and numbered by Monk and Lexier on the back from an edition of 50 examples. This is the North American" edition version where the envelopes differ in size from the "European" version....
Vevey: Emergency, 2017
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card which has an original collage made from brown packing tape on the front by Monk and verso gallery details. The card is signed on the reverse by Monk. VG+.
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Leicester: De Montfort University, 2017
Standard audio cassette with a recording of the Monk sound work - "My Mother Cleaning My Father's Piano" which is exactly what it says it is. The recording is on both sides of the tape - the first being labelled "Repeat" and the second "DIgitally Remastered".
There is a 10 x 6.5cm, 10pp (single folded sheet) insert with a text on the work and five small b/w images of works shown in the exhibition including the pianist playing the sheet music transcribed from the original recording. This insert is signed in pencil by Monk and dated 2018. VG+.
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Brussels: MOREpublications, 2016
Four b/w 20.7 x 14.6cm, b/e offset prints each showing an enlarged detail from a photograph of a female swimming costume that has an oval which has stripes on it - Monk is emphasising the similarity to a Daniel Buren in situ stripe work.
One of 40 signed and numbered examples aside from 7 artist's proofs. In original unprinted mailing envelope and with a 1pp signed colophon sheet. All VG+.
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Brescia: Galleria Massimo Minini, 2016
30 x 21cm, 1pp announcement leaflet reproducing a drawing by Monk that references Sol Lewitt, Boetti and Weiner all at once. The over all design looks like several Boetti announcement leaflets but the drawing is a Lewitt cube and the idea of a wall drawing being covered and uncovered reminds one of early Lawrence Weiner conceptual art sculptures/structures. This example fo the leaflet is signed by Monk at the bottom in pencil. Folded for mailing else VG+.
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Torino: Studio Salvo, 2016
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduced painting on the front by Monk which has a very similar style (or parody or homage?) to that of the arte povera artist Salvo and gallery details on the back. This card is signed by Monk on the back in black felt tipped pen. VG+.
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