Jonathan Monk - Unoriginal Sins

AN ENVELOPE BY JONATHAN MONK INSIDE AN ENVELOPE BY MICAH LEXIER/AN ENVELOPE BY MICAH LEXIER INSIDE AN ENVELOPE BY JONATHAN MONK. EUROPEAN EDITION. 2017. ONE OF 50 SIGNED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

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.
JOINT WITH:
Original printed cardboard mailer with the work title and publisher's details. All VG+.

MICAH LEXIER

IL CANE DI PISTOLETTO. 2017. SIGNED BY MONK.

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+.

BLAZERS/BLASONS. 2017.

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.

UNTITLED (POSTCARD). 2017. POSTAL SERVICE SERIES #8. (MICHAEL ASHER). UNIQUE SIGNED CARD FROM A SERIES.

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+.

REMASTERED DIE ART DER ANEIGNUNG/THE ART OF APPROPRIATION. 2017. SIGNED BY MONK.

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.

FRANZ WEST IS ONE OF THE ….. 2018. SIGNED BY MONK.

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.

EMERGING IN THE EARLY 1970S, ….. 2018. SIGNED BY MONK.

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.

JONATHAN MONK. ANYTHING BY THE SMITHS. 2018. SIGNED BY MONK.

Neuchatel: Le CAN, 2018
33 x 22cm, 20pp plus card covers. String bound. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book consisting of glossy pages with images of the installations in the gallery from the 2018 show and an earlier show (where he smoked his last ever cigarette in 1997). Short text by Marc-Olivier Wahler in French and English. This book is signed in black felt tipped pen on the last colophon page by Monk. VG+>

RECEIPT DRAWINGS. c. 2018. SIGNED BY MONK.

West Hollywood: Leadapron, n.d. (c. 2018)
15 x 10cm, 1pp announcement card with one work reproduced on the front under gallery details in red. Show of Monk's drawings on paper meal receipts where the cost of the work is the same as the total of the bill. This example is signed on the blank back of the card by Monk in pencil. VG+.

FATHER AND SON WALLS./ 2018.

Temple: Show & Tell Editions, 2018
30.5 x 45.5cm, black leatherette folded portfolio case which houses a 30 x 45cm, full colour digitally Giclee printed photograph (using conservation paper and inks) of a work by Jonathan Monk and in a small glassine plastic pouch, a die-cut adhesive sticker of an emoji image of a duck which can be added to the photograph in any position desired by the owner.In 2016 Jonathan Monk created a work by instruction at LUST AND THE APPLE in Temple, Midlothian Scotland. A father and son bricklaying team were each told to build two walls next to each other utilising 120 bricks for each wall (the same number of bricks as found in the Carl Andre Equivalence works). That work considers the role of the father-son bond - the bond of both competition and co-operation, learning and new ideas - all distilled in a simple instruction.
Now in a new development of that work, a photograph of Monk's sculpture has been drawn on by the artist's own son Goldin and the resulting image (the walls have been covered by a roof with smoke coming out of the chimney) is a further father and son production.
In addition a duck emoji adhesive sticker has been supplied as a removable addition (at the request of Goldin) to allow the owner of the photograph to further customise the image.
A signed and numbered certificate is also included in the portfolio.
Only 36 numbered and signed copies of this print (and 6 A/Ps) have been created.

EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR – PLUS INVITED GUESTS. 2019. VARIANT COVER 1. SIGNED BY MONK.

Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2019
21 x 30cm, 92pp plus card wrappers and paper dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue cum artist's book for Monk's wallpaper like installation in KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin where the images on the walls are his own works and artworks by others he owns. Text in German and English and illustrated in b/w and colours with exhibition views. This is one of three known variants on the dust jacket showing part of the "wallpaper" used for the installation. This copy of the book is signed by Monk on the title page in pencil. VG+.

EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR – PLUS INVITED GUESTS. 2019. VARIANT COVER 2. SIGNED BY MONK.

Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2019
21 x 30cm, 92pp plus card wrappers and paper dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue cum artist's book for Monk's wallpaper like installation in KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin where the images on the walls are his own works and artworks by others he owns. Text in German and English and illustrated in b/w and colours with exhibition views. This is one of three known variants on the dust jacket showing part of the "wallpaper" used for the installation. This copy of the book is signed by Monk on the title page in pencil. VG+.

EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR – PLUS INVITED GUESTS. 2019. VARIANT COVER 3. SIGNED BY MONK.

Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2019
21 x 30cm, 92pp plus card wrappers and paper dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue cum artist's book for Monk's wallpaper like installation in KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin where the images on the walls are his own works and artworks by others he owns. Text in German and English and illustrated in b/w and colours with exhibition views. This is one of three known variants on the dust jacket showing part of the "wallpaper" used for the installation. This copy of the book is signed by Monk on the title page in pencil. VG+.

EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR. 2019. SIGNED BY MONK.

Berlin: Kindel, 2019
84 x 60cm, b/w exhibition poster with a photograph of a section of the wall paper created by Monk for the gallery which shows an image of a skate border and a framed photograph of Boetti. Folded for mailing (as issued) and signed by Monk bottom left in pencil. VG+.

EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR – PLUS INVITED GUESTS. 2019. SIGNED BY MONK.

Berlin: Kindl, 2019
21 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a solo show where the walls were papers with images of his works and others. On the front is an installation view. Verso- gallery details. Signed by Monk on the back. VG+.

UNTITLED (LEWITT). 2019. UNIQUE WORK.

12 x 6cm, printed thermal restaurant receipt upon which Monk has drawn a faux Sol Lewitt "incomplete cube". This is one of a series of such drawings on receipts where the original price of the work is the total on the receipt. Here $39.93. Framed in glass and wood. VG+. Unique.

THE END. 2019. UNIQUE HANDMADE MARBLE PAPER/SILKSCREEN ON PAPER FROM A SERIES.

Paris: Three Star Books, 2019
25 x 70cm, unique print made by hand-dipping and creating a marbled paper with silk screened text in white. This work being created in the aftermath of the limited edition book THE END. The title refers to the Ed Ruscha prints where the final frame of films were recreated but also to the end papers of books which are often made by a similar colour dipping process. Each print in the series of 180 unique works are signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+

RESTAURANT DRAWINGS. 2019. SIGNED BY MONK.

NYC: Casey Kaplan, 2019
15 x 11.5cm, 2pp, announcement card for an exhibition of drawings by Monk on real meal receipts - the price of each work being the amount printed on the receipt. The drawings are parodies/homages to drawings by conceptual artists - the one illustrated on the front there being a Boetti. This card is signed by Monk on the back. VG+.

THE END. 2019. UNIQUE HANDMADE MARBLE PAPER/SILKSCREEN ON PAPER FROM A SERIES.

Paris: Three Star Books, 2019
25 x 70cm, unique print made by hand-dipping and creating a marbled paper with silk screened text in white. This work being created in the aftermath of the limited edition book THE END. The title refers to the Ed Ruscha prints where the final frame of films were recreated but also to the end papers of books which are often made by a similar colour dipping process. Each print in the series of 180 unique works are signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+

UNTITLED (MAGAZINE TREES) XXVII. 2019. UNIQUE PAINTING ON DIGITAL PRINT.

33 x 20.3cm, digital print on paper with added watercolour and gouache. One of a series of works where Monk has recreated paintings by the arte povera artist Salvo who is known for his stylised tree paintings and painted them on digital print outs of scanned furniture adverts (objects made from trees as is the paper.) Unique. Signed by the artist.

UNTITLED (WALLPAPER FRAGMENT FROM EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR). 2019. SIGNED BY MONK.

Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2019
18 x 6.5cm, offset fragment of the unused wall paper from the EXHIBIT MODEL FOUR installation. Signed on the back in pencil by Monk. VG+.