Unoriginal Sins | https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:01:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png Unoriginal Sins | https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 UNTITLED (ILFORD). 2025. ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES ISSUED. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-ilford-2025-one-of-only-50-copies-issued/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=untitled-ilford-2025-one-of-only-50-copies-issued https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-ilford-2025-one-of-only-50-copies-issued/#respond Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:40:28 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=61796 Berlin: einBuch.haus, 2025

25 x 20cm, full inkjet offset with an image of the front of an Ilford Inkjet box - the work being printed on one of the sheets from the box. Monk has created similar works using photography also showing the front of the box and using the paper from the box as the medium. This was one of 50 unsigned works issued as a fundraiser for the Berlin Gallery and only available for one week only in December 2025. Fine.

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25 x 20cm, full inkjet offset with an image of the front of an Ilford Inkjet box - the work being printed on one of the sheets from the box. Monk has created similar works using photography also showing the front of the box and using the paper from the box as the medium. This was one of 50 unsigned works issued as a fundraiser for the Berlin Gallery and only available for one week only in December 2025. Fine.

The post UNTITLED (ILFORD). 2025. ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES ISSUED. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-ilford-2025-one-of-only-50-copies-issued/feed/ 0 COLLECTED EDITIONS III. 1975. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/collected-editions-iii-1975/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=collected-editions-iii-1975 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/collected-editions-iii-1975/#respond Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:33:50 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=61682 NYC: John Gibson Gallery, 1975
15 x 10.5cm, 10pp (single folded sheet) of a show of what was claimed as "new additions to the largest collection of Beuys' multiple object, prints, posters, books and catalogues". The card displays the full edition of Iphigenie-Set: 8 b/w images of prints. VG+.

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15 x 10.5cm, 10pp (single folded sheet) of a show of what was claimed as "new additions to the largest collection of Beuys' multiple object, prints, posters, books and catalogues". The card displays the full edition of Iphigenie-Set: 8 b/w images of prints. VG+.

The post COLLECTED EDITIONS III. 1975. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/collected-editions-iii-1975/feed/ 0 UNTITLED (BUREN). 2025. UNIQUE RECEIPT DRAWING BY MONK WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTE. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-buren-2025-unique-receipt-drawing-by-monk-with-handwritten-note/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=untitled-buren-2025-unique-receipt-drawing-by-monk-with-handwritten-note https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-buren-2025-unique-receipt-drawing-by-monk-with-handwritten-note/#respond Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:43:16 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=61384 19.5 x 3.5cm, 1pp unique work by Monk which is one of his long series of drawings of well known conceptual art works on receipts which were originally sold for the price on the receipt. This drawing is after a Buren stripe print (probably the famous Wide White Space poster). VG++.
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10 x21cm, 5pp folded sheet of paper with a handwritten note in ink from Monk: "One postcard plus a restaurant drawing as a thank you until then JM"
A gift from the artist to Paul Robertson.

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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.

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Glasgow: Wax366, 2024
27 X 21cm, 1pp press release explaining the event Folded for mailing else VG+.

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The post UTOPIA DAY. 29 FEBRUARY 2024. 2024. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/utopia-day-29-february-2024-2024/feed/ 0 NAMES OBJECT TO THINGS/THINGS OBJECT TO NAMES. 2023. A 3/4 NUMBER 1. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/names-object-to-thingns-things-object-to-names-2023-a-3-4-number-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=names-object-to-thingns-things-object-to-names-2023-a-3-4-number-1 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:24:28 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=58144 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+.

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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+.

The post NAMES OBJECT TO THINGS/THINGS OBJECT TO NAMES. 2023. A 3/4 NUMBER 1. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> UN ULTIME HOMMAGE TO A NOTRE CHER CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 2021. REPRINT OF POINT D’IRONIE NR 7. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/un-ultime-hommage-to-a-notre-cher-christian-boltanski-2021-reprint-of-point-dironie-nr-7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-ultime-hommage-to-a-notre-cher-christian-boltanski-2021-reprint-of-point-dironie-nr-7 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/un-ultime-hommage-to-a-notre-cher-christian-boltanski-2021-reprint-of-point-dironie-nr-7/#respond Sun, 02 Oct 2022 17:53:07 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=51332 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.
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15 x 21cm, 2pp accompanying sheet explaining the work and listing the 63 other numbers from the run. VG+.

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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+.

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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+.

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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.

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ANNOTATIONS ON THE TRUTH IN PAINTING.
Two 30 x 21cm, 1pp sheets with notes by the artists on the philosophical implications of their work.

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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.

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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+.

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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+.

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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.

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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+.

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