JONATHAN MONK

THE MAKING OF THE WORLD IN STARS AND STRIPES. 2011. ARTIST’S PROOF SIGNED BY MONK.

27 x 21cm, full colour c-print displaying the making of a world map using the fabric from an American flag. The woman making the tapestry (reminding one of the supposed original making of the flag by Betsy Ross) was a member of the right-wing "Daughters of the American Revolution" who Monk paid to create the work (adding layers of irony given the American right wing are against the destruction of flags).
This example of the photograph is designated as "Artist's Proof" on the back in Monk's holograph and is hand titled, dated and signed also by the artist. We do not know if the image was used as an edition or not.

TWO OF TWO. 2011.

Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2011 A 2.5 x 3 x 3cm (approx) wood and rubber stamp consisting of a reproduced image of the artist's left thumbprint. One of 65 signed and numbered (on a certificate) examples from the important British conceptual artist Monk. Referencing Manzoni (who often stamped works with his thumbprint), and, perhaps indirectly, Warhol with the idea of the unique re-made as a multiple was never before more apposite as here. In 2003 the other half of this two-part artwork ONE OF TWO (with the stamp being of the right thumb print) was published as one of the first Show & Tell Editions. Fine condition.

PICTURE POSTCARD POSTED FROM POST BOX PICTURED. WINNIPEG. 2011. SIGNED BY MONK ON REVERSE.

N.p.: Paul & Wendy Editions, 2011
14.8 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a Winnipeg 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+.

BALANCED ACTS. 2011.

Berlin: Meyer Riegger, 2011 21 x 18cm, 36pp plus card covers and printed wrap-around dustjacket which is only 2/3rd the size of the book. The wrap around has a photograph of a cyclist riding with two bikes at once. The exhibition catalogue for a joint show with Ariel Schlesinger but which is also an artist's book. The front cover of the book has the only text (and gallery information) and internally the pages are near continuous images of the exhibition installation. The book's format is similar in some ways to later Monk shows where the walls of the show display wallpaper with installation views from earlier shows. VG+.

Ariel Schlesinger

TEN POSTERS TEN LANGUAGES TEN COLOURS TEN WORDS TEN EUROS. 2011. ONE OF 50 SIGNED SETS BY MONK.

N.p.: n.p., 2011
Ten different 60 x 42cm offset lithographic posters - each printed on a different colour paper, each with the phrase "TEN POSTERS TEN LANGUAGES TEN COLOURS TEN WORDS TEN EUROS" printed on them letterpress but in 10 different languages. This is one of only 50 signed sets (on the grey poster). VG+.

UNTITLED (HANDTRAINER) 2011. UNIQUE READYMADE OBJECT IN HAND ADDRESSED MAILING ENVELOPE?

20 x 18cm transparent bag containing a Dr Winkler "handtrainer" and printed leaflet/label. The "hand trainer" being a inflatable double thick blue plastic bag which is intended to be a means of building strength in one's hands by regular squeezing. This was sent by Monk to Paul Robertson in return for a Kippenberger inflatable object multiple that Monk purchased from Robertson's Heart Fine Art. Essentially a readymade unique artwork.
JOINT:
Original hand addressed (by Monk) mailing envelope (which had originally been sent to Jonathan Monk by Ryan Gander and was hand addressed by that artist0.

LEARNING PHOTOGRAPHY. 2012. SIGNED BY MONK.

Sotteville-les-Rouen: FRAC Haute--Normandie, 2012
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show that reproduces Monk's The Artist Covered in a Selection of his Sol Lewitt Books (Afte Ed Ruscha), 2000 on the front. This card is signed by Monk in pencil on the back.

BENEFIZ-KUNSTAUKTION IN HAMBERG. 2012. SIGNED BY MONK.

Hamburg: NCL_Stiftung, 2012
21 x 10cm, 6pp announcement leaflet for a charity auction - Monk had contributed a work which is reproduced on the front of the leaflet. Monk has signed this leaflet underneath the image. VG+.

COIN SIZED SCRAP METAL REMOVAL. 2012. SIGNED BY MONK.

Paris: Annual Editions, 2012
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcard which has an image of the Monk edition on the front in colour and verso edition details. Monk has signed this card on the back in pencil. VG+.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH. KUNSTAUKTION. 2012. SIGNED BY MONK.

Berlin: Lempertz, 2012
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcard which has an image of a Monk work "Black Paint under Thumb Twice" on the front in colour and verso edition details. A work donated by the artist for a charity auction. Monk has signed this card on the back in pencil. VG+.

PARALLELWELT ZIRKUS. 2012. SIGNED BY MONK.

Wein: Kunsthalle Wein, 2012
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp, announcement card for a group show with Monk's neon work "Strongman" reproduced on the front, verso museum details. Signed in pencil by the artist on the reverse. VG+.

THE BILLBOARD PROJECT. 2012. ONE OF ONLY 5 SIGNED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

London: Three Star Books, 2012
Twenty "royal sheets" - each 50.8 x 63.5cm - that together make up a 203.2 x 317.5cm billboard (requiring construction and a wooden backing board that were not supplied by Monk) and a bound book - in Royal Folio size - 50.8 x 31.7cm, with 80pp and boards. The pages of the book are exactly the same as the pages in the bill board only cut differently.
The text on both the billboard and in the book is a description of the billboard and book, the processes that were required to make both, the formats used in the typography and other aspects of the production and details about the artist and the publishers.
There were five different formats to the book of which only five copies of each format were made (plus another 3 artist's proofs of each size and another 3 copies of each size hors commerce.
A huge in so many ways production and an ambitious artist's book in various versions.

PUSH. PULL. 2012. ONE OF 20 SIGNED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

Bruxelles: MORE publishers, 2012
30 x 20 x 8cm transparent perspex with two "DiamondPlate™ anodized aluminum" door signs mounted either side - on one side the word PUSH and on the other PULL. The sign has no other means of attaching it to any item or means to push or pull. This is one of 20 (plus 3 artist's proofs) examples - each signed and numbered. VG+.

A NUMBER OF POINTS RANDOMLY CONNECTED (RED). 2013.

Paris: n.p., 2013
21 x 15cm, 1pp, leaflet displaying a red circle which is a work entitled "A NUMBER OF POINTS RANDOMLY CONNECTED" and artist and date details. VG+.

A NUMBER OF POINTS RANDOMLY CONNECTED (BLUE). 2013.

Paris: n.p., 2013
21 x 15cm, 1pp, leaflet displaying a blue circle which is a work entitled "A NUMBER OF POINTS RANDOMLY CONNECTED" and artist and date details. VG+.

SENZA TITOLO. 2013. SIGNED BY MONK.

London: Lisson Gallery, 2013
13 x 24cm, 2pp announcement on thick card with one b/w image on the front and verso gallery details. Signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+.

LESS IS MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED INDIAN BICYCLES. 2013.

Manchester: Cornerhouse, 2013
30 x 21cm, 60pp plus card covers. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue for a major installation at the Kunstraum Dornbirn which had previously been a factory - Monk returned it to that function and assembled over 100 bicycles using volunteers and himself which were later left around in the city to allow lucky finders to keep a basic bicycle. The catalogue notes Monk regards the bicycle as being a symbol of freedom given his own early experience of the vehicle being a means of allowing him to go long distances alone. Numerous b/w images of one cycle in close up and colour images of the space and installation. VG+.

LESS IS MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED INDIAN BICYCLES (WITH WORDS FROM RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA AND A SILVER SHADOW). 2013. SIGNED BY MONK.

Dornburn: Kunstraum, 2013
21 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card - signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+.

INSERTS. 2013. ONE OF 40 SIGNED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

Brussels: MOREpublications, 2013
Eight 29.7 x 21cm, b/w offset prints (with a 1pp 30 x 21cm, signed colophon sheet) each showing a detail of a larger image where a poster of Richard Hamilton is being held up by a woman but the details do not allow the full image to be discerned easily. There is a reference in the images to Hamilton's painting Toaster and his exhibition Products in 2003.
One of 40 signed and numbered examples aside from 7 artist's proofs. VG+.

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME. 2014. UNIQUE CARD IN A SERIES. ONE OF 72 SIGNED EXAMPLES.

Berlin: Haubrok Projects, 2014
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp postcard which is double hand-stamped with the text "the distance between you and me" on the front by Monk in black ink - hence each is different from each other. SIxtyy-two copies were published plus 10 A/Ps. Strangely the announcement card for the exhibition also took a handmade format but this is the official limited edition mailart. VG+.

TIRAVANIJA GILLICK MONK SEHGAL NANNUCCI GANDER BARRY GRAHAM TORINI ZOBERNIG ROCKENSCHAUB MOCHETTI WEINER SNOW GORDON MULLICAN. 2014. LIMITED EDITION ARTIST POSTER SIGNED BY BOTH MONK & NANNUCCI.

Firenze: Zona Editions, 2014 84 x 62cm, blue on red artist designed silkscreen poster (by Monk) with the various artists given patterned symbols to create a "code" for each. This is one of 100 limited edition print which was published on a number of different coloured papers (here pink/red). Each is signed in ink by Jonathan Monk and Maurizio Nannucci. VG+.

Maurizio Nannucci