Glasgow: Wax366, 2024 42 x 30cm, 1pp back and green small poster advertising Bellingham's proposal for a Utopia Day where a temporary state of Utopia is declared on Leap Year's day. Belling ham has declared a similar day twice before in 2016 and 2020. Folded for mailing. JOINT Glasgow: Wax366, 2024 27 X 21cm, 1pp press release explaining the event Folded for mailing else VG+. ...
Hastings: Fifthsyllable, 2023 30 x 21cm, 4pp printed offset sheet which in the two inside pages with the texts: "names object to things/things object to names" in Bellingham's facsimile handwriting. Edition size not known. VG+....
Paris: Point d'Ironie, 2021 42 x 30cm, 8pp (self cover) a reprint of Nr 7 of the artist's serial publication Point d'Ironie that was given out free by Agnes B in 10,000 copies. Boltanski along with Hans Ulrich Obrist was the instigator of the publication and this reprint was issued in response to the artist's death in July of 2021. The reprint has four appropriated photographs from a girls' school in Hamburstrasse in Berlin in 1938 and Boltanski notes that "we will never know what these young girls were looking at and what made them laugh that day." Folded for storage else VG. JOINT 15 x 21cm, 2pp accompanying sheet explaining the work and listing the 63 other numbers from the run. VG+. ...
Gothenberg: LL'Editions, 2022 18.5 x 14cm, two part cardboard box with embossed title and foam insert content of a 14.3 x 9cm, 20pp single sheet leporello publication. Artist's book by Monk where he has re-photographed the original Ed Ruscha All the Buildings on Sunset Strip artist's book using an iphone 12 in panorama mode. One of 250 examples - part of the series of similar formatted books released by LL'Editions. VG+. ...
40 x 19 x 14cm, cut resin and two coloured t-shirts. A unique work which is one of the artist's earliest pieces where material items were placed in resin then cut and polished so that one side of the block has both resin and exposed areas of the fabric. Mint condition....
Bruxelles: MorePublishers, 2021 Eleven digital prints (dimensions vary - 28 x 21.5 and 29.7 x 21cm) which are reprinted from press releases by Gagosian Gallery where Donald Judd, Theaster Gates, Anna Weyant, Jordan Wolfson, Jim Shaw, Rick Lowe, are announced as being represented by the gallery. The outer cardboard sleeve has a signed and numbered label from Monk from a total edition of 12 copies plus 8 artist's proofs. VG+. ...
Schiehallion: s.p. (Maris), n.d. (2002) 29 x 21cm, 1pp high resolution full colour ink jet facsimile copy of a letter sent by Jacques Derrida to Maris regarding their work "The Truth in Painting" which was a response to Derrida's philosophical work of the same title. Maris pulped a copy of Derrida's book and made it into a grey pigment which they used to paint 12 canvasses which were hung as "The Truth in Painting" in Paul Robertson's Heart Gallery in Edinburgh in 2002. JOINT: ANNOTATIONS ON THE TRUTH IN PAINTING. Two 30 x 21cm, 1pp sheets with notes by the artists on the philosophical implications of their work. JOINT: JUSTIFIED SINNERS. Edinburgh: Morningstar Publications, 2002 12.5 x 17cm, 2pp announcement card for the title publication - the image on the front of the card is a reproduced photograph of Alexander Maris holding a Kalashnikov rifle in a countryside landscape. On the reverse is a note to Paul Robertson apologising for forgetting to send the facsimile and noting their design for an announcement card for the exhibition was included. JOINT DESIGN FOR THE TRUTH IN PAINTING AND OTHER PROPOSITIONS. 2002. Two 30 x 21cm, 1pp sheets with a design for the front and back of the proposed announcement card for the artist's show in Heart Gallery. ALl VG+. ...
Essex: Fithsyllable, n.d. (2021)
16 x 11.5cm, grey foil stamped boards content of a 32pp concertina folded sheet displaying a selection of people looking at art (with the art not being shown) taken by Monk from the internet. This is one of only 50 such books produced. VG+. Very scarce. ...
Glasgow: Elke Finkenauer, 2016 6 x 16cm (approx), strip of vegan bacon in plastic bag sealed with tape along with a 15 x 21cm, 4pp homemade card with a photographic image by the artist. Inside the card is a lengthy pencil note from the artist to Paul Robertson noting the "bacon" was a part of her Approximately Bacon installation and wishing Robertson well during the COVID -19 lock-down. AN original relic from the show. Limitation unknown but not many. All VG+. ...
Loch Ranoch: Maris, 2020
30 x 21cm, 2pp archival inject print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper inviting Paul Robertson to a “requiem supper” by Alexander and Susan Maris commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Celtic (Kinloch Rannoch) Scottish Symphony by Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen. The event has a menu of soup, fish and other Scottish gourmet items but sadly the event was “in spirit only” and a theoretical meet up (in part because the COVID-19 pandemic had meant lock-downs in parts of Scotland were in place and travel dsicouraged). Signed by both Alexander and Sue Maris on the reverse. VG+.
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30 x 21cm, 1pp press release for the event. VG+.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 2020
15 x 10.5cm, 12pp artist's book - which is completely hand-made and drawn by Bellingham in black felt-tipped pen. The title Lists is followed by pages with various lines numbered in the way lists might be (each page is different).
This is one of 50 proposed books in a series called "DRAWN ON DEMAND" each of which is hand-made on request by the artist (hence it is not clear that 50 such books will be realised). Signed on the back cover. VG+.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 2020
15 x 10.5cm, 12pp artist's book - which is completely hand-made and drawn by Bellingham in green, red and black and blue felt-tipped pen. The title Lines is followed by pages with various lines in different colours (each page is different).
This is one of 50 proposed books in a series called "DRAWN ON DEMAND" each of which is hand-made on request by the artist (hence it is not clear that 50 such books will be realised). Signed on the back cover. VG+.
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