JONATHAN MONK

THIS POSTCARD HAS BEEN INFLUENCED BY THE WORK OF JOSEPH KOSUTH. 2003. UNIQUE SIGNED CARD FROM A SERIES WITH ATTACHED HANDWRITTEN POST-IT NOTE.

Copenhagen: Nicolai Wallner, 2003
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp hand made artist's postcard issued during a Danish solo show - each card having a different artist's name rubber stamped underneath the printed text: "This postcard has been influenced by the work of". Here: JOSEPH KOSUTH. The card is signed "JM" on the back and additionally there is an added yellow post-it note added with the text: "Dear Paul, Unique hand stamped postcard never mailed. Signed on reverse. JM>" An unique work with unique added message. VG+.
joint:
Original hand-addressed envelope sent to Paul Robertson from Jonathan Monk.

THIS POSTCARD HAS BEEN INFLUENCED BY THE WORK OF BRUCE NAUMAN. 2003. UNIQUE SIGNED CARD FROM A SERIES.

NEITHER A BORROWER, NOR A LENDER BE. 2003. SIGNED BY MONK.

Bristol: Arnolfini, 2003
15 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a b/w photograph of a cute dog on the front. Verso gallery details. This card is signed in pencil by Monk on the reverse. VG+.

SHEET OF INK THUMBPRINTS USED FOR ONE OF TWO. 2003.

29.5 x 21cm, nine original ink thumb prints made by Jonathan Monk for the object multiple "One of Two". Folded and numbered in part by Monk to show his preferences. This is NOT an artwork but rather part of the documentation for that work. True ephemera.

PHOTO SOUVENIR (MEXICO CITY). 2003. UNIQUE WORK.

Two colour photographs (both 21 x 29.7cm)) and two 35mm colour slides. Signed certificate with instructions for display: "The two images should not be displayed within the same space. The work can be made in a number of different ways, either both photographs can be show, both slides projected (the projected dimensions are variable) or one photograph and one projection.
The owner of the work must decide how the piece is to be installed. For every installation a different rule can be followed.
Duplicate slides should not be made. Fading only alters the look of the piece, but not it's intention."
The work shows two similar but slightly different images of a lorry being refuelled in a Mexican petrol station. In the background are stripes on a wall which look somewhat like a Daniel Buren stripes work (hence the title "Photo Souvenir - which is a title Buren uses for his photo=documentations of works).
An unique work by Monk only ever exhibited in the "Secret Exhibition" show in Edinburgh in 2013 curated by Paul Robertson. VG+.

PICTURE POSTCARD POSTED FROM POST BOX PICTURED. FRANKFURT AM MAIN. 2003. HANDADDRESSED BY MONK & WITH HIS STAMPED THUMBPRINT ON REVERSE.

Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2003
14.8 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a German post box where the card was posted. This was the first of a long series of similar cards sent from all over the world. This example is hand addressed to Paul Robertson by Monk and has been signed by Monk by use of an ink rubber stamp impression from One of Two of the artist's thumb print. VG+.

NEWSPAPER GALERIE JAN MOT. 14, 15, 16. 2003. WITH MONK INTERVENTION.

Bruxelles: Galerie Jan Mot, July/August 2003
21 x 15cm, 8pp. A single number of the gallery's newsletter which covers various exhibitions including here Monk's DURING THE EXHIBITION THE GALLERY WILL BE OPEN. The newsletter acts as the announcement for the shows. Also within the pages is a Monk Meeting work: "Davis Planetarium 601 Light Street Baltimore MD. USA. 31st JULY 2007. Sunset". and various paragraphs have been removed by Monk by overprinting of a white column hence also this has elements of being an artist's book. VG+.

THE PROJECT BOOK PROJECT. 2003. SIGNED BY MONK.

Bristol, UK: Adolfini, 2003
30 x 21cm, 64pp plus card covers. Spiral bound. An artist's book issued on the occasion of an exhibition (Neither a borrower nor a lender be). Pages from well known conceptual art books are reprinted willy nilly in the book. Monk was born in 1969 one of the major years of the original conceptual movement. This copy is signed by Monk on the first page in pencil. VG+.

JONATHAN MONK. 2003. FIRST MAJOR MONOGRAPH.

London: Lisson Gallery, 2003
26.5 x 21cm, 160pp plus original card covers. The first major monograph on the artist with colour illustrations throughout with a a short interview between the artist and Hans-Ulrich Obrist and a longer one between Monk and Sol Lewitt. Essay by Jens Hoffmann. The book additionally has a couple of inserts including a black dot sticker which the book owner is to add to a page and a card with various rubic cube illustrations on it that reflect the front cover.
JOINT WITH:
Original wrap around publisher's bandeau. All VG+.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sol Lewitt

MEETING #27. 2003.

Berlin: Revolver Books, 2003
8 x 20cm, 2pp printed card with one of Monk's meeting works on the front - "10 de Abril de 2010 al medio dia Edgar Allan Poe esq. Shakepare Col. Nueva Anzuren Mexico D.F." which is repeated twice in a typewriter font. One the reverse publisher's details. One of 5,000 such cards printed. VG+.

ONE OF TWO. 2003.

Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2003
2.5 x 3 x 3cm (approx) wood and rubber stamp consisting of a reproduced image of the artist's right thumbprint. One of 65 signed and numbered (on a certificate) examples from the important British conceptual artist (and curator) Monk. Referencing Manzoni (who often stamped works with his thumbprint), and, perhaps indirectly, Warhol - the idea of the unique re-made as a multiple was never before more apposite as here. Fine condition.

TIME AND OR SPACE/NAMING TOKYO PART II. 2003.

NYC: Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art, 2003
10.5 x 15cm, 4pp black and green on white announcement card for two shows - one by Aleksandra Mir and the other by Jonathan Monk. Typographic design throughout. VG+.

Aleksandra Mir

UNTIL THEN. 2003. ONE OF 50 NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

N.p.: Pin-up, 2003
2.5 x 2cm, backing card and plastic transparent bag content of a mounted 1.5cm lapel button badge (plastic and metal) with Monk's famous greeting "Until Then". Slight rusting to the badge due to damp which has affected the backing card but a scarce small object multiple.

LOOKING THROUGH A HOLE LARGE ENOUGH FOR ME TO SEE YOU, BUT NOT LARGE ENOUGH FOR YOU TO SEE ME (ENLARGED) 1996 – 2003. 2003.

Lyon:La Salle des Bains, 2003
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with one photograph by the artist on the front, verso gallery details. VG+.

EN/OF. 2004.

Toronto: EN/OF, 2004
14 x 14cm, 2pp announcement card for series of artist's records issued where an artist was paired with a musician to create the work. Monk was paired with Tarentel and was nr 14 of the 23 releases. Other artists included Liam Gillick, Olafur ELiasson, Sarah Morris, Angela Bulloch, Carsten Hoeller, Simon Starling, Thomas Demand, Dan Graham, David Shrigley, Doug Aitken, Tacita Dean and others. VG+.

NEWSPAPER GALERIE JAN MOT. 32, 33, 34. 2004. WITH MONK INTERVENTION.

Bruxelles: Galerie Jan Mot, August/October 2004
21 x 15cm, 8pp. A single number of the gallery's newsletter which covers various exhibitions including here Monk's CANCELLED which has a large black on green photograph by the artist illustrating the announcement for the show "Cencelled Project Brussels". Also within the pages is a large Wolfgang Tillmans photograph of a naked woman's vulva and a text by the artist. Additionally various paragraphs have been removed by Monk by overprinting of a white column hence also this has elements of being an artist's book. VG+.

THE ARTIST’S BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE. 2004.

Berlin: Galerie Anselm Dreher, 2004
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a typographic design listing the various artist's in the group show which includes John Armleder, Thomas Locher, Maurizio Nannucci, Karin Sander, Lawrence Weiner, Heimo Zobernig and Monk.

Heimo Zobernig, John Armleder, Karin Sander, Lawrence Weiner, Maurizio Nannucci, Thomas Locher

COVER VERSION. 2004. SIGNED BY MONK ON A NOTE PUSHED INTO SHRINK WRAP.

London: Book Works, 2004
19.7 x 15.8cm, 64pp plus 6 blank pages in different coloured paper stock. Artist's book with 48 colour images of artist's book in Monk's own collection - all conceptual art books by the likes of Weiner, Le Witt and Ruscha. The latter is interesting in that this book is similar to Ruscha's own publications which show bland, objective images and also Richard Price who displays record covers (Monk's punning title alludes to that). This is in VG+ condition and is a scarce book.
Monk has opened the shrink wrap and pushed a handwritten note into the package that says:" But which one is worth more? /Until then/JM." This is a reference to a second copy of the same book that Monk sent unopened in shrink wrap but signed on the plastic. VR+. Unique thus.

& MILK. TODAY IS JUST A COPY OF YESTERDAY. 2004.

Koln: Walther Konig, 2004
15.2 x 23.5cm, 64pp plus card covers. Artist's book where an initial slide of a glass of milk is duplicated, a duplicate was made of that duplicate, and so on, until there were 50 generations of the original image each becoming more blue in the colour range because of the flaws in the duplication method. Resolution and details are also lost. The book can also be seen as a flick-book with the pages creating a "movie" if flipped with the thumb. VG+ although there is a remnant of a price sticker on the back cover. One of 800.

JONATHAN MONK. TIME EXPLAINED SUSPENDED LENGTHENED. 2004. SIGNED BY MONK.

Munchen: Spruth Magers, 2004
10.5 x 21cm, 2pp. Die-cut typographic design announcement card with a mirrored front and verso gallery details. This example signed by Monk on the back with flet tipped pen. VG+.

MINIMAL ARTISTS TRY TO MAKE SOMETHING LOOK LIKE NOTHING AND CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS TRY TO MAKE NOTHING LOOK LIKE SOMETHING OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND? 2004.

NYC: Yvon Lambert, 2004
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a typographic design - a group show including work by Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Joan Jonas, On Kawara, Louse Lawler, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Dennis Oppenheim, Fred Sandback, Niele Toroni, Richard Tuttle and Lawrence Weiner. The exhibition was curated by Monk. VG+.

Brice Marden, Carl Andre, Dennis Oppenheim, Fred Sandback, Joan Jonas, Lawrence Weiner, Louse Lawler, Niele Toroni, On Kawara, Richard Tuttle, Robert Barry, Robert Mangold, Sol Lewitt, Stanley Brouwn