San Antonio: Artpace, 2009
30 x 21cm, 4pp exhibition catalogue displaying images from Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations printed on airbrushed car hoods (bonnets). One hood reproduced in b/w and short texts on the artist and the project. This catalogue is signed on the back cover in black ink on the back page. VG+.
Berlin: Little & Large Editions, 2009
9.5 x 9.5cm, full colour adhesive sticker with an image of the British comedy duo Little & Large which were popular in the 1980s. Monk has used their image to promote Little & Large Editions which he formed with Douglas Gordon to produce works for sale that are both little and large. Unused VG+.
Zurich: Christoph Keller Editions, 2009
10 x 15cm, 154pp plus card covers. Artist's book displaying 37 colour and 69 b/w images of Monk's Richard Prince collection of books and other works in the artist's studio. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Richard Prince and the Revolution" curated by Jonathan Monk at Projecte SD, Barcelona. VG+.
XL red cotton t-shirt with printed image of the artist with one of his works (Rabbit) which has had a blue circle painted on it, below a Koons plastic sticker has been ironed on and two button badges (one being from Specific Object and the other reads "I (HEART) PORN". This is a unique work made for an exhibition in New York in 2009 at Specific Object. Signed and dated in ink on the back. One of the badges has some foxing on it but else VG+.
Turin:Galleria Sonia Rosso, 2009
15 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a post box in Turin. One of a series of similar conceptual mail art works by Monk where the card is meant to be posted from the same postbox. This example is unmailed but has the city name written on the back in pencil by Monk. VG+.
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+.
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+.
Glasgow: Tramway, 2009
30 x 21cm, unpaginated. Pictorial hard boards. Artist's book where Monk has appropriated a Blue Peter (a UK famous and very popular long running children's programme from the BBC) annual (a staple of Xmas stockings remembered fondly by middle class adults of a certain age) and added items from his collection of announcement cards by conceptual artists. Limitation unknown. Fine.
N.p: s.p., n.d.
Two different 84 x 64cm, full colour lithographic prints each with a different view of the artist’s father having fallen through a deckchair while relaxing in his garden. A typically nostalgic use of the artist’s family archive to create a new work used we believe as a floor stack in the way that Felix Gonzalez-Torres would do. Limitation unknown. VG+.
London: The Economist, 28th November 2009
30 x 21cm, 106pp plus wrappers. A single number of this important international financial magazine which contains a paid advert by Jonathan Monk on page 104 - "Keith Arnatt was an artist" under the "Business & Personal" section. Arnatt sometimes used commercial tv advertising for works. VG+.
Paris: Tornabuoni Art/Yvon Lambert, 2010
21 x 15cm, 4pp, Announcement card for the solo exhibition by Monk which took place during the major retrospective of the work of Alighiero Boetti in Paris. The car reproduces one of Boetti's Mappa works on the inside and back cover mentions the Monk show.
JOINT:
21 X 15cm, 1pp invitation leaflet to the launch of the Boetti book "Catalogue General d'Alighiero Boetti". Typographic only.
30 x 21cm, 1pp inkjet output printed in black, green and purple with the overlapped text "I got up at 6.45am" - a reference to the work of On Kawara - and also stamped in green ink from a hotel's address stamp - to reference Kippenberger's hotel stationery drawings - and two gouache paintings of a rough square and a circle. There are three collage elements - one an Arabic postal stamp which is glued to the paper and two unattached items - a German transport ticket and a photographic booth self portrait of the artist. Additionally the paper has a rust mark on the left which seems to have come from an old rust paper clip.
The work (which brings together associations from the work of a number of different conceptual artists) is signed in pencil "JM10" bottom right. A gift from the artist to Paul Robertson. Unique.
Berlin: Meyer Riegger, 2010
21 x 15cm, 44pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book which displays 15 colour images of then modern electrical devices in vitrines. A direct reference to Jeff Koon's presentation of Hoovers and other electrics in the 1990s. There is a foreword text by Monk in English and German.
The catalogue is signed in pencil by Monk on the inside first page. VG+.
JOINT WITH:
Berlin: Meyer Riegger, 2010
21 x 15cm, 2pp, black on yellow press release from the gallery for the show. VG+.
Polígrafa Obra Gráfica, 2010 47 x 57.5cm, Portfolio with 11 lithographs each with a number from 1 to 11 printed in the respective number of colours of the number i.e. 6 has 6 overlapping different colours. We assumed the choice of 11 numbers reflects the number of players in a football team and the whole in in a printed card box with a centre circle from a football pitch design however we asked Jonathan Monk and he replied: "the piece was not really supposed to relate to football but the publisher is a big Barcelona fan and he proposed the football related portfolio... and I guess there are eleven numbers. The colours don’t specifically connect to team shirts but I’m sure connection can be found... ". This is one of only 32 such sets with each lithograph signed by Monk.
Berlin: Haubrokshows, 2010
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp. Announcement card for a joint show with Klaus Merkel - the front of the card is a text in English by Merkel and on the back of the card Monk has simply mirrored the text such that it reads right to left. This is a strategy Monk has used in other works - reflection. Internally gallery text. VG+.
Berlin: Haubrok Foundation, 2010
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp printed b/w postcard with a hand-drawn line in yellow highlighter pen by Monk with instructions to "install this postcard on any wall with the pencil line six feet above the floor". A self portrait of the artist of sorts. One of 59 copies plus 10 A/ps. of this object multiple which is signed on the reverse in pen. VG+.
