14 Jun

Posted at 09:30h in Jonathan Monk

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+.

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03 Mar

Posted at 14:25h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Février Editions, 2003
20.4 x 15cm, 12pp (self cover). Printed on very thick card. The book reproduces five double page images from the artist's very early 1969 film L'homme qui tousse - where the artist is disguised as a mannequin (with paper mache head and in rags) in a derelict room and is clearly unwell - vomiting and coughing.
The film can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfJJwdD306c
The book has a custom shaped audio-CD with the soundtrack from the film. VG+.

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27 Feb

Posted at 16:37h in Jonathan Monk

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.

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02 Dec

Posted at 10:48h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Pistoia:Gli Ori, 2002
22.5 x 17cm, 120pp plus boards. Publisher's bandeau with title. Monograph and exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena with txts by Maurizio Marrone and Marc Scheps in Italian and English. Biography and bibliography. B/w and colout reproductions of works in the text and in plates outside the text. VG+.

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27 Oct

Posted at 11:12h in Jonathan Monk

Toronto: Art Metropole, 2002
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp printed b/w postcard with a hand-drawn pencil line 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 200 copies of this object multiple which is signed on the reverse in pencil. VG+.

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11 Sep

Posted at 16:23h in Jonathan Monk

Karlsruhe: Meyer Riegger Galerie, 2002
21 x 9.9cm, single sheet folded to 12pp which opens to 42 x 29.5cm. Announcement and exhibition poster printed on grey paper which internally notes over a flat sheet of grey that the first public exhibition of Daniel Buren's vertically striped paintings in Paris at the Galerie Fournier in March 1966. This leaflet is signed by Monk on the front in pencil. VG+.

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18 Jun

Posted at 22:39h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Point d'ironie/Agnes b, 2002
43.4 x 30.7cm, 8pp, A single number of the artist's periodical which invites a single artist to create an artist's book. This is one of two such publications by Boltanski in the series - he also did number 50 8 years later. The pages of the tabloid do not register other than a general shape when looked at in isolation but when one opens up the pages and conjoins the sheets one can see an appropriated vintage b/w photograph of an unidentified man and a woman. Folded for storage else VG+. Somewhat scarce despite the large edition size of 10,000 copies.

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02 May

Posted at 19:49h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln: Walther Koenig, 2002
15 x 22cm, 20pp plus original boards. Ten sheets of card which has a number of disturbing images that have been overprinted with a silver ink that can (if desired) be rubbed off to see the photographs below.
This example is unscratched - and in mint condition. It is also one of a small number of copies that were signed on the back cover by Boltanski in black felt tipped pen.

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18 Jan

Posted at 16:07h in EPHEMERA

Munchen: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 2002
10 x 21cm, 4pp typographic announcement card content of a 21 x 10cm, 1pp printed on semi-transparent paper (also typographic design). This inner sheet is signed in blue in by Boltanski.

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18 Nov

Posted at 10:36h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln/Dessau: Walter Konig/ Anhaltische Gemaldegalerie, 2001 25.5 x 20.5cm, 208pp plus boards. First edition of this artist's book with 101 images (collaged from xerox images by Boltanski) and texts in French, German and English from people who knew Boltanski printed opposite to the images on some pages. The pages with the images are printed on semi-opaque paper and backed by black blank sheets to cause a ghostly effect. As ever the images in the collages are taken from the artist's own collection of vintage photographs usually found in flea markets and in unidentified photo-albums.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, Nov. 2001-Jan. 2002. VG+.

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15 Sep

Posted at 09:36h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, 2001
27 x 14.5 x 4.8cm, two part rubber stamped thick cardboard box content of:

WITNESS. 10.5 x 14.5cm, 32 2pp postcards bound as a book with wrap around cover. Each card in b/w displaying shots of the public installations "Witness" - enlarged eyes on posters around the city.
REVENIR. 42 x 29.8cm, 4pp artist's book (magazine) consisting of a group photograph of young men (possibly a sport club) and three enlarged faces from the photograph. Folded to fit the box.
UNTITLED (CHINESE PORTRAIT). 42 x 29.8cm, 4pp artist's book (magazine) consisting of a double sheet image of the enlarged eyes and two enlarged faces which appear to be Chinese faces. Folded to fit the box.
Two booklets - CHINESE PORTRAIT/ PORTRAIT CHINOIS- each 18 x 12.5c, 32pp. Text only in English and French with a short text by curator Magdalena Abakanowicz. The work WITNESS is briefly discussed with Boltanski placing the works around the city when he realised there was very little in the way of record of the Warsaw Ghetto.
UNTITLED - eight sheets - each 30 x 21cm, folded and bound together by a paper band - text in Polish. One sheet has some recent b/w portraits of the artists.

BOLTANSKI. 20 x 14.5cm, unpaginated (c. 48pp) printed on semi-opaque and opaque papers with some of the sheets fold outs. Minimal text with full colour images of the various works exhibited in the show. Hard printed boards.
An extensive exhibition catalogue with artist's booiks/publications included. VG++ condition and somewhat hard to find.

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27 Jul

Posted at 11:01h in Jonathan Monk

Edinburgh/London: Morningstar/Lisson Gallery, 2001
10 x 10cm, 6pp concertina folded single sheet with two of Monk's meeting works printed on it - suggesting a rendezvous at the "Luxor (main entrance) 3900 S. Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas USA, November 21, 2010, sunset" and on the reverse another meeting with the text in Arabic (which sadly we cannot translate). Printed in an edition of 5,000 copies. VG+.

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