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04 Dec FOUR DETAILS OF A SWIMMING COSTUME. 2016. ONE OF 40 SIGNED & NUMBERED EDITIONS.

Posted at 02:42h in Jonathan Monk

Brussels: MOREpublications, 2016
Four b/w 20.7 x 14.6cm, b/e offset prints each showing an enlarged detail from a photograph of a female swimming costume that has an oval which has stripes on it - Monk is emphasising the similarity to a Daniel Buren in situ stripe work.
One of 40 signed and numbered examples aside from 7 artist's proofs. In original unprinted mailing envelope and with a 1pp signed colophon sheet. All VG+.

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19 Sep ANIMITAS. LES AMES QUI MURMURENT. 2016. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 10:05h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Tokyo: Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2016
30 x 19cm, 124pp plus card covers and printed pictorial dust-jacket. Exhibition catalogue for a major Japanese show with many colour images of the exhibition and in particular a major shadow play work and several videos of public installations. Printed on various paper stocks (some transparent) there are also interviews in Japanese and English. VG+.
This copy is signed in black ink on the inner dust-jacket by Boltanski.

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03 Sep MY MOTHER CLEANING MY FATHER’S PIANO. 2016. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 12:00h in Jonathan Monk

Berlin: S.p. (Monk), 2016 30 x 21cm, 6pp folded single thing card sheet. Musical notation for the random noises created by the artist’s mother while cleaning her husband’s piano. Monk’s references to his father and mother are found in a number of works and this “music” was originally released in a limited edition seven inch vinyl record in 2001. Fine. This example unusually signed by Monk....

29 Jul IERI OGGI DOMANI ECCETERA. (6616). A SPECIAL PROJECT BY JONATHAN MONK. 20.16.

Posted at 19:29h in Uncategorised

60 x 42cm, double sided artist designed poster by Jonathan Mink for a group exhibition with Marinus Boezem, Simone Forti, David Medalla, Maurizio Mochetti, Maurizio Nannucci, Malick Sidibem Michael Snow and others. Monks contribution is a poster that has the texts: IERI OGGI DOMANI ECCETERA positioned around the print in sty style of Robert Barry (the translation being YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW ETC). Limitation unknown. JOINT Original printed envelope that contained the print - carefully opened - VG+. ...

28 Jul THE MAGNETISM OF COLOUR. 2016. ONE OF 25 SIGNED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

Posted at 18:57h in Jonathan Monk

Bruxelles: More Publishers, 2016
94 x 68cm, four colour silkscreen print showing a photograph of a package of coloured fridge magnets as well as the unopened package of 10 of the same fridge magnets. A self-referential artwork - the print is expected to be held in place on a metal background by the magnets.
This is one of only 25 signed and numbered examples (aside from 5 artist's proofs).
Both magnet package and print are in VG+ condition.

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17 Mar THE LIFE SIZED BLACK (A PORCHE FOR RH). 2016. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 14:03h in Jonathan Monk

Geneva: 5 rue de La Muse, 2016
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card reproducing a bitmapped photograph of a black Porche sportscar over the inner pages. A work dedicated to RH (Richard Hamilton) - the actual car shown was Hamilton's that came to auction in the year before this election. Monk also discovered that the car's official manual was written by a "Richard Hamilton" - hence he began to recreate the car but by enlarging the online auction image - the life size images being heavily pixilated. This card is in VG condition and is signed on the back cover by Monk.

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21 Feb ECHO. 2016. TWO POSTCARDS AND A LETTER.

Posted at 09:44h in David Bellingham

Iona/Glasgow: Iona Craft Shop/Wax366, 2016
11 x 21cm, 2pp artist's postcard letterpress on thick grey card - in 2015 Bellingham cast models of the planets out of bronze and buried them in a remote field on the island of Iona. Each was buried a relative distance from the surface as their average orbits are from the sun.
This card is an extension of that work when two astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown proposed that a large ice planet might be found far out in the solar system and only so far apparent due to it's effects on other orbits.
Belling in response, cast a new model of the hypothetical planet and thrown into the sea from "The Bay at the Back of the Ocean" on the west coast of the isle o Ioan next to the site of the original "Hidden Solar System".
it is proposed by Bellingham that the new planet be given the name Echo suggested by the words of Batygin who in stressing the speculative foundation of his evidence said "all we have now is an echo".
JOINT: Iona/Glasgow: Iona Craft Shop/Wax366, 2016
30 x 21cm, 1pp. Reproduction of am open letter from Bellingham to the scientists suggesting the name of the "planet" be called Echo based on the words of Batygin. Folded for mailing else VG+.
JOINT: Iona/Glasgow: Iona Craft Shop/Wax366, 2016
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Full colour postcard with a photograph of the model ice planter on teh shore of Iona prior to be cast into the sea, verso details of the image. VG+
JOINT:
D5 printed envelope hand addressed by Bellingham to Paul Robertson.

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29 Jan 6616. 2016. ENVELOPE SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 19:17h in Jonathan Monk

Bologna: Galleria Enrico Astuni, 2016
15 x 21cm, folded poster/booklet that opens up to 60 x 84cm poster. Designed by Monk each page opens up to a different textual work. This was issued during a group show curated by Lorenzo Bruni but Monk did not exhibit simply offering this work. The texts are in order: "IERI. OGGI. DOMANI. ECCETERA." which translated means "YESTERDAY. TODAY. TOMORROW. ETC."
JOINT:
Original printed envelope, neatly opened, signed in pencil on the back by Monk.

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10 Jan IN MEMORIAM/IN LOVING MEMORY. 2016. TWO CARDS IN BLACK ENVELOPE.

Posted at 18:53h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: WAX336, 2016
Two cards both 7.5 x 11.5cm, 4pp. Both are "in memoriam" cards printed black on white - the first has the text "In loving memory of yesterday. Aged 24 hours", the second: "In loving memory of last yea. Aged 365 days".
The two cards were issued in the original black 11.5 x 16cm, envelope as a New Year's gift from Bellingham to friends and colleagues. Both VG+ in like envelope.

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21 Nov SOME DIAGONAL LINES TO BRIGHTEN A DESIGNATED SPACE. 2015.

Posted at 10:34h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2015
21.3 x 15cm, printed yellow outer folder content of two folded posters (both open to 42 x 60cm with diagonal stripes in green and yellow. A joint work with the concrete poet Clark which references the early work of Daniel Buren and Fred Sandback. VG+. Scarce.

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02 Oct DISPERSION A L’AMIABLE. TAKE ME (I’M YOURS). 2015.

Posted at 16:33h in OBJECT MULTIPLES

France: Monnaie de Paris, 2015
50 x 46cm, printed brown paper bag with string handles. Boltanski organised along with Hans Ulrich Obrist a series of TAKE ME I'M YOURS exhibitions (beginning in 1995 at the Serpentine Gallery, London) where the artworks could be taken away by visitors. Boltanski often created "Dispersions" - piles of second hand clothing that anyone was welcome to put into the specially printed bags (of which this is one example) and take home. Theoretically an unlimited edition but time limited.
This example is in VG+ condition but folded twice for storage.
JOINT:
France: Monnaie de Paris, 2015
21 x 15cm, 1pp typographic handout describing the work from the exhibition. Also mentioned the Felix Gonzalez Torres works on show in the exhibition. VG+.

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01 Oct FAIRE-PART. 2015. LENTICULAR PRINTED INVITE CARD.

Posted at 18:53h in EPHEMERA

Paris: Marian Goodman, 2015 15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card in the form of a lenticular printed card. During a visit to his studio Christian Boltanski told me that he was dying and I didn't believe him. Two years later he was in hospital with an unannounced illness and never escaped the room. This card which should really be seen as an object multiple has the words Arrive and Depart on it depending on how you look at it. This was also done as a neon work and p[art of a series of works defining irth and death. VG+. Scarce....