21 Jun

Posted at 16:39h in Jonathan Monk

N.p.: s.p. (Monk), 2006 9 x 6cm, outer folder with tipped in 6pp accordion sheet with five colour images of swimming pool bases being stored on their side with one blank page. The book references both Richard Long's A Walk Past Standing Stones and Ed Ruscha's Nine Swimming Pools and a Glass of Milk (which also has one blank page in it). A visual joke as much as a neo-conceptual work. Slight sealed tear to folder along the bottom else VG+. Scarce....

10 May

Posted at 20:02h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Editions MF, 2006
16 x 20cm, 72pp plus card covers. A book of poetry by Boltanski's nephew which was illustrated by seven b/w appropriated images of hands (manipulated such that the limbs are the only part of the photograph that is in light. Slight scuffs to front cover else VG.

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25 Feb

Posted at 02:38h in Jonathan Monk

Hannover: Kunstverein, 2006
26.5 x 22cm, 154pp. Boards with a design by Monk. Exhibition catalogue which is also in part a catalogue raisonne of original and multiple works. Colour illustrations throughout. Designed by Monk. This copy is unusually signed on the back cover of the hardback binding in felt tip pen within the drawing of Monk's hand. Fine.
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23 Feb

Posted at 13:27h in David Bellingham

Metal box, hand drawn sheets of paper with 1,916,594 individually drawn crosses. Some pages framed in glass and wood.
Turnout is a 1:1 representation of the voting public of Scotland. It is a monument to those who voted in the first national election following the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The work takes the Scottish Parliamentary election of the 1st May 2003 as a model. 1,916,594 votes were cast in this election, amounting to 49.42% of the electorate.
Turnout consists of 1 916 594 individually drawn crosses, one cross for every person who voted. Groups of 1000 crosses were drawn on 1917 separate sheets of paper, the final sheet consisting of 594 crosses. The sheets of paper are housed in archival boxes which in turn are housed in an outer ‘ballot box'. The first 20 000 and last 20 000 crosses are framed. Outer box dimensions: 49cm x 37cmx 66cm
Where the traditional monument takes a partial list of proper names and sets them in stone, in Turnout voters are memorialised not in name but in action. Turnout was made at the Heart Gallery in Edinburgh between February and April 2006. Images on request.
NB - Please note Turnout is available for exhibition - do enquire.

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20 Dec

Posted at 10:20h in Jonathan Monk, Uncategorised

Commercial Colorscope postcard displaying Kings Canyon National Park in Calefornia and the General grant Tree (the "nation's Christmas tree") sent to Paul Robertson at Xmas 2005 from Jonathan Monk with a handwritten note on the back in pencil "Dear Paul/Let me know if any of this is of interest/until then/JM". JOINT: A hand addressed (by Monk) airmail envelope....

25 Jul

Posted at 13:48h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005
13.5 x 15.5cm, 46pp plus card covers and French folds with attached audio CD. Under the pseudonym Amicale des temoins, Christian Boltanski created his poetic-conceptual project Entendre Les Chiens (Listen to the Dogs) for the 50th Venice Biennale, 2003. During the exhibition, he emitted a recording of the sounds from an island of feral dogs--who are kept away from the city of Venice on the island Lazzarretto Vecchio - from a series of speakers hidden throughout Venice. Interview in German/French and English by Hans Ulrich Obrist. This example is one of a small number of signed books. VG+.
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18 Jun

Posted at 09:32h in Jonathan Monk

Bremen: Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2005
20.3 x 20.3 x 14cm, two part white box content of an artist's book and an unique glazed coffee mug with a text on the outside - deliberately printed upside down.
The book - OCEAN WAVE - is 21 x 15cm, 244pp plus card covers but the cover has been torn off by the artist and replaced inside the book. The book is a physical reminder of Bas Jan Ader's suicidal trip in trying to sail back to Europe single handedly from America as well as films made by Monk where he tried to make beer commercials. The book is entirely designed by the artist and has overlapping images from the films as well as blank pages.
The mug has a quotation from a short story about a true life event by Lawrence Elliot called "The Boy Who Plunged Over Niagara": "Deanne, awed by the tumultuous river, which she had seen only once, was reluctant. But with little Roger jumping with glee, and her mother urging her to go along --- "You'll have a chance for a swim at Lynch's later --- Deanne changed into a bathing suit, and the three set out." and is unique to this mug. Other mugs had different quotations from the story on them. It is signed by Monk and dated 2005 on the bottom.
The book and the quotation both deal in part with drowning (although the boy and his sister survived the capsize the adult with them did not. And the quotation being upside down means that to read it the mug has to be capsized in some sense also. One presumes Ader drowned after a capsize in the Atlantic as well.
This is unique in the series (although the book was released as a separate edition at the exhibition in Bremen. The top of the box is signed and numbered by Monk also. Sadly because of contamination from another Monk work (A box of cheese) with which it was stored temporarily the box has heavy foxing on all sides. But this does not affect the mug or the book.

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19 Apr

Posted at 20:30h in Jonathan Monk, Uncategorised

Avignon: Collection Lambert en Avignon, 2005
15 x 15 x 15cm, espresso coffee cup and saucer with an image of Warhol on the inside of the bottom of the cup and the title "I saw Andy Warhol at the bottom of my cup for a second, then he vanished." on the saucer. A limited edition object multiple which reminds the owner of the short timescale of Warhol's famous dictum that "in the future everyone will be famlus for 15 minutes."...

18 Mar

Posted at 13:52h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Milano: Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, 2005
12 x 17cm., 144pp with original printed boards. First edition of this artist's book with texts by Jean-Hubert Martin in English, French and Italian. The book consists of sixty-one stills chosen by the artist from TV news images broadcast on each September 6 (his birthday) from 1944 to 2004 (after 1973 the images are in colour). VG+.

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10 Feb

Posted at 12:17h in Jonathan Monk

Rome: The British School at Rome, 2005
20 x 14.5cm, folded size. Opens to 42 x 58cm approx. Artist designed exhibition catalogue and poster -b/w photograph of a two Afghanistan mules in a landscape is recto and verso gallery details and a text in Italian and English regarding Monk's debt to Boetti (who is buried in Afghanistan). This copy is unusually signed in pencil on the front cover by Monk.  Fine.

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