02 Jun FIRE POINT. 2015.
65 x 65 x 5cm, photographic print on metal. The image of the "Fire Point" becomes another potential "Fire Point" wherever the work is placed. Unique. Signed on reverse....
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04 Aug A NUMBER OF POINTS RANDOMLY CONNECTED. 2016. ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES.
Berlin: Broken DImanche Press, 2016
21 x 15cm, 30pp plus wrappers in printed slipcase. A book explaining the international conceptual public art project where Monk published an A1 poster with a massive single typographic point in colour. The posters were then fly-posted in various cities - Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Toronto, San Francisco, Glasgow and Paris. The colour of the poster was different in each city. The book has a number of fantastic short stories ("topological fiction's) by John Holten. This is one of 150 published copies. VG+.
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18 Oct JONATHAN MONK SHOPS AT UNTITLED. c. 2009.
N.p.: n.p., n.d. (c 2009)
38 x 34cm, green silkscreen on cream cotton plus red handles. One of a number of such bags where Monk indicates his shopping interests but here no specific seller is being specified - instead the lack of a seller is designated as "Untitled" a title that is more associated with individual artworks rather than a shop. Slightly faded but else VG+.
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18 Oct JONATHAN MONK SHOPS AT EROTICA. c. 2009.
Berlin: Eroticxa, n.d. (c 2009)
38 x 34cm, black silkscreen on cream cotton pus handles. One of a number of such bags where Monk indicates his interest in their products by his simple endorsement. On the back of the bag, the design is repeated but in a mirror image. Slightly faded but else VG+.
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13 Nov DAS TWODO-PROJEKT 2007. 2007.
Aachen: NAK, 2007
10 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a conceptual art show where Monk created a jigsaw puzzle in metal on teh floor referencing Carl Andre. VG+.
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19 Jun DEAR JONATHAN, IT’S BEEN A WHILE….. 2007. LIMITED EDITION PRINT SIGNED BY MONK.
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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24 Feb YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW ETC. 2006. SIGNED BY MONK WITH POST-IT NOTE.
Hannover: Kunst Verein Hannover, 2006
10 x 21cm, 6pp. Announcement card for a solo show with one work (an upside down bicycle) illustrated plus gallery texts. This example is signed by Monk and additionally has a white post-it note added "Dear Paul 2 more cards with thanks JM" (a reference to Postcards Posted from Post Box Pictures which Monk had asked Paul Robertson to post from the box on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. VG+.
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Hand addressed by Monk postal envelope.
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20 Dec COMMERCIAL POSTCARD WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTE FROM MONK TO PAUL ROBERTSON. 2003.
Commercial Colorscope postcard displaying Kings Canyon National Park in Calefornia and the General grant Tree (the "nation's Christmas tree") sent to Paul Robertson at Xmas 2005 from Jonathan Monk with a handwritten note on the back in pencil "Dear Paul/Let me know if any of this is of interest/until then/JM". JOINT: A hand addressed (by Monk) airmail envelope....
04 Nov CONTINUOUS PROJECT ALTERED DAILY. 4TH NOVEMBER 2005.
London: ICA, 2005
21 x 15cm, 4pp. One of a series of exhibition catalogues which changed daily as Monk insisted that the daily list of items in the exhibition should change with a small number of works being replaced (rotated) from a storeroom of his works held elsewhere on a daily basis. Hence each "daily diary" was different from the next. All fine.
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19 Apr I SAW ANDY WARHOL IN MY COFFEE CUP. 2005. LIMITED EDITION.
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."...
25 Oct JOSEPH BEUYS DRAWINGS / SCULPTURE/ENVIRONMENTS. 1986.
NYC: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 1986
10.5 x 15cm 2pp. Announcement card for a posthumous show which took place only 9 months after the artist's sudden death. Image on the front of a Beuys action (probably The Hearth from 1975 which took place in the same gallery). A mailed copy with typed address verso else VG+.
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05 May JOSEPH BEUYS. ETCHINGS AND BRONZES. 1984.
London: Editions Schellmann & Kluser, 1984
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card with two works reproduced internally (Dead Stags from 1982 and Bath-Tub for a Heroine, 1984) internally, exhibition and gallery details on the front and back covers. VG+.
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