Berlin: Haubrok Projects, 2014
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show including Michael Asher, Martin Creed, On Kawara, Andreas Slominski, Ian Wilson and Haegue Yang as well as Monk. Each card was hand-stamped with the title on the front by Monk in black ink - hence each was different from each other. VG+.
Karlesruhe: Meyer Riegger, 2014
21 x 15cm, unpaginated. Original wrappers. Artist's book which displays the same b/w photograph of a Vespa and several blank pages. An additional 21 x 15cm, 1pp sheet of adhesive stickers is also supplied and the owner of the book is instructed to use the stickers (in 12 different colours) to create "your own unique combination of lights" supposedly from the various lights on the scooter. The reference is, of course, Sol Lewitt's systematic work-throughs of combinations of colours in his artist's books but made more physical in a the form of a design classic. VG+.
Paris: One Star Press, 2014
26 x 17cm, unpaginated. Printed card covers. First edition of this artist’s book which displays a series of American cents (both front and back) one for each of the titular years. This is one of 250 numbered copies. Fine.
Llandudno: Mostyn, 2014
14.8 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a Welsh 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+.
Torino: Edizioni dell'Arengario, 2014
21 x 15cm, 24pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a show of Monk's books, photographs and other ephemera - 77 items are listed from the book dealer's collection. 30 colour images of the collection. This is one of only 30 numbered copies of this very rare catalogue.
N.p. (Karlsruhe):Meyer Riegger Gallerie, 2013
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp Christmas card issued by the gallery - on the front is a sculptural work by Monk - "Together again alone by himself as someone else" which is a image of as Father Christmas but this also references Paul McCathy the artist who often portrays himself as Santa! Signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+.
Newcastle on Tyne: Locus +, 2014
21x 15cm, 4pp printed folder with gusset content of a small padded jiffy bag containing a broken glass Xmas ornament. Monk has created other works that consist of damaged items - including one work where he pour a glass of red wine on a collectors’ white long-pile carpet. One of 500 such works released by Locus+ as a Xmas gift/card.
JOINT: Original red posting envelope. Both in fine condition.
Bruxelles: MORE Publishers, 2015
A complete set of twelve 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcards - each sent one week apart to Paul Robertson. The image on the front is appropriated from the famous Richard Hamilton Whitley Bay postcard which the latter issued with hand-tinted additions from a b/w picture of the beach at the British holiday resort.
Hamilton issued two versions of this card - one as here and the other in the SMS (Shit Must Stop) portfolio in 1968 where the artist enlarged the original image time and time again to eventually isolate one figure of a woman in the final image.
Monk's reworking of the original starts with the first card being the same size and an exact reproduction of the original Hamilton card but each consecutive card posted monthly was enlarged by cropping out the printers border. This mirrors Hamilton's SMS publication only as mail art.
Each of the cards was sent to the same person (Robertson) and is signed by Monk and hand numbered from a total edition of 40 copies. Apart from any mailing marks (franking, stamps) this is a complete and VG+ group of one of Monk's most important mail art works.
Tours: Centre de Creation Contemporaine Olivier Debre, 2015
13.5 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card with a work by Monk on the front after Ed Ruscha. A group show with the participation of Claude Closky, Pierre Huyghe, Ari Marcopoulos, Maurizio Nannucci and others (displaying artist's books). Signed by Monk in felt tipped pen on the reverse. VG+.
Tours: Centre de Creation Contemporaine Olivier Debre, 2015
13.5 x 21cm, 2pp typographic announcement leaflet with a text that describes an Ed Ruscha book which has been modified by Monk to create a new work. This leaflet is signed in black felt tipped pen by Monk. VG+.
Glasgow: Kingsford Captial Management/Partick Thistle, 2015
11 x 7.4cm, black on yellow "referee's card" with the text "You have officially been cautioned" printed on it in diecut red card folder. A limited edition object multiple given out at a Partick Thistle football match to "be used in situations both on and off the pitch where you wish to advise others : A line has been crossed and caution is advised. Put it to good use." This copy is signed on the back in felt tipped pen by Monk.
30 x 21cm, xerox reproduction of a photograph by Monk of his hand which has had the background to the image painted out in white.
Signed on the back in pencil and with the hand-written note "Original test for Camden art Center Edition 2015". An unique work given as a gift by Jonathan Monk to Paul Robertson. VG+.
Faenza: Museo Carlo Zault, 2015
21 x 15cm, 8pp (self cover) exhibition catalogue for an artist's residency culminating in a solo show curated by Guido Molinari. Nine colour images of the artist creating works with others and texts in Italian and English. Signed in pencil by Monk on one of the inner pages. VG+.
London: InOtherWords, n.d. (2015)
9 x 6.5 x 2cm printed cardboard box content of 56 printed playing cards, which show various aspects of a photograph by Monk of literally nine Kippenberger editions, one Boetti watch, a cigarette on a background of yellow. Unlimited edition aside from the signed edition of 50 copies. VG+ although one small damp mark on the side of the box.
Temple: Show & Tell Editions/Lust & The Apple, 2015
21 x 15cm, 72pp. Laminated cover and glossy internal pages content of c. 60 full page images of works by Monk that were shown in secret in an attic in Edinburgh. Visitors to the exhibition were by invitation only and ONLY 129 people viewed the exhibition during the three months it was on show - mind you a single step away from the central walkway and one fell to one's death 40 feet below. Art is dangerous. One of 600 copies. Fine.
San Francisco: The Thing, 2016
30 x 21cm, 24pp (self cover). A wall calendar for the year 2016 which was sent out to subscribers of The Thing magazine by the publishers. It is an almost complete collection of Meeting pieces by Jonathan Monk. The works pieces have never before been gathered/archived in one document, and include everything from Meeting #3 (Palais des Galces Paris le 16 mars 2006) to the new meeting specially created for this calendar (Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco September 30th 2016). The publishers say only 500 copies were made.
"The artist will meet the owner of each piece at the place and time stated. It is important to understand that the work is the actual rendezvous and not the invitational text that preceeds it. It is also important to realize that like all meetings, there is a possibility these meetings will not be met." - Jonathan Monk
This copy was a gift from Jonathan Monk to Paul Robertson and is unusually signed in pencil on the inside back cover.
