30 Aug

Posted at 19:36h in Jonathan Monk

Glasgow: Kingsford Captial Management/Partick Thistle, 2015
11 x 7.4cm, black on yellow "referee's card" with the text "You have officially been cautioned" printed on it in diecut red card folder. A limited edition object multiple given out at a Partick Thistle football match to "be used in situations both on and off the pitch where you wish to advise others : A line has been crossed and caution is advised. Put it to good use." This copy is signed on the back in felt tipped pen by Monk.

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09 Jul

Posted at 14:13h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Paris: Dilecta Editions, 2015
30 x 22cm, 64pp plus card covers. Additionally there are seven 30 x 22cm, 1pp sheets of adhesive stickers with one work by each of the participating artists. The exhibition catalogue of a exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski at the Monnaie de Paris where all of the works were available for the visitors to take home (at least in part). Boltanski's contribution was a dispersion of second hand clothing in printed paper bags.
Other artists included James Lee Byars, Gilbert & George, Jeremy Deller, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Holler, Jonathan Horowitz, Gustav Metzger, Philippe Parreno, Yoko Ono and others.
The catalogue also acted as a sticker album - the colour stickers on the sheets being expected to be peeled off and places in the correct space in the book. This copy retains all of the stickers on the original sheets and is VG+.

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24 Jun

Posted at 20:45h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu,2015
15.5 x 11.5cm, outer card folder which opens to 6pp (unprinted). Tipped in such that they open up to 42 x 30cm, 1pp are posters on the left and right sides of the open sheets for the two works (Les Registres du Grand-Hornu and Apres), in the middle is a 15 x 10cm, 8pp with texts by Laurent Busine and Boltanski in French.
An unusually designed exhibition catalogue for the artist's Belgium show. VG+. Scarce.

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23 Feb

Posted at 12:03h in Page Works & Contributions

Glasgow: Seebed Press, 2015
15 x 21cm, 52pp in embossed and printed thick boards, string bound. A cataloguing of the works commissioned by the European Association of Archaeologists Glasgow up to 2015. Works include the Boyle Family, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Catherine Mooney, Kate Downie as well as Finlay's ALL GREATNESS STANDS FIRM IN THE STORM from 1990 where the text in Greek (a translated quotation by Heidegger from Plato's Republic) was inscribed in both languages on the granite pillars of the Old Caledonian Railway Bridge over the River Clyde. The site specific work clearly emphasises the structure and its solidity over the centuries. One colour image of the work is reproduced. VG+.

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30 Jun

Posted at 20:36h in DELUXE ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris. Editions Dilecta, 2014
32 x 22 x 5cm, two part heavy cardboard box with printed label content of:

a 17 x 24cm book which contains ten 13 x 18cm, full colour lenticular images tipped onto each page such that one can see two different images when the page is angled towards or away from the viewer.
a 54 x 36cm 4PP full colour artist's broadside folded to 27 x 36cm
a further 13 x 18cm lecticular photograph set into the lid of the box using photocorners
a signed and numbered 21 x 15cm, 1pp colophon sheet.

Deliuxe artist's book based on images found in the Wehrmacht magazine "Signal" that Boltanski bought at flea markets in Paris. Previously issued as a signed and numbered print, Boltanski here matches up images such that a war related photograph has a corresponding "normal" life image (often pretty girls enjoying themselves).
This is one of only 170 numbered and signed copies (with 20 HC copies also retained by the artist and 10 artist's proofs). VG+.

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23 May

Posted at 02:06h in Jonathan Monk

Karlesruhe: Meyer Riegger, 2014
21 x 15cm, unpaginated. Original wrappers. Artist's book which displays the same b/w photograph of a Vespa and several blank pages. An additional 21 x 15cm, 1pp sheet of adhesive stickers is also supplied and the owner of the book is instructed to use the stickers (in 12 different colours) to create "your own unique combination of lights" supposedly from the various lights on the scooter. The reference is, of course, Sol Lewitt's systematic work-throughs of combinations of colours in his artist's books but made more physical in a the form of a design classic. VG+.

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21 May

Posted at 15:03h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2014
Four sheets each 21 x 15cm, 1pp all printed in black on a flat background colour card - red, yellow, blue and green. the top right corner has been die cut to reveal the colour below. All housed in an original plastic sleeve. Object multiple more than a book - this is one of a number of variations on the theme of "THIS COLOUR IN THE PLACE OF ANOTHER". VG+.

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14 Nov

Posted at 02:48h in Jonathan Monk

Brussels: MOREpublications, 2013
Eight 29.7 x 21cm, b/w offset prints (with a 1pp 30 x 21cm, signed colophon sheet) each showing a detail of a larger image where a poster of Richard Hamilton is being held up by a woman but the details do not allow the full image to be discerned easily. There is a reference in the images to Hamilton's painting Toaster and his exhibition Products in 2003.
One of 40 signed and numbered examples aside from 7 artist's proofs. VG+.

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09 Sep

Posted at 15:10h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

NYC: Independent Curators International, 2013
25.4 x 20.3cm, 448 plus card covers. A massive collective artist's book based on the original project by Obrist and Boltanski in 1993. All of the works are instruction based - the reader being expected to create the work as explained by the artist.
Boltanski offers two works - Les Ecoliers and Instruction both from 1993.
Slight mark from previous price label on front cover. Internally on the first blank page Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and Hans Ulrich Obrist have written "do it" and signed under each phrase.

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23 Jun

Posted at 10:40h in David Bellingham

Dundee: University of Dundee, 2013
22 x 15.4cm, outer folder content of five different 42 x 60cm (opened size) two-sided posters designed by the artist and a exhibition catalogue in the form of 21 x 15cm, 24pp (self cover) with interviews with the artist and one 21 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard. The exhinbition was of various wall drawings by the artist in the School of Humanities. VG+.

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13 Oct

Posted at 10:22h in Jonathan Monk

Bruxelles: MORE publishers, 2012
30 x 20 x 8cm transparent perspex with two "DiamondPlate™ anodized aluminum" door signs mounted either side - on one side the word PUSH and on the other PULL. The sign has no other means of attaching it to any item or means to push or pull. This is one of 20 (plus 3 artist's proofs) examples - each signed and numbered. VG+.

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