Printed sheets with instructions from the artist 'A Poster Project by Jonathan Monk'

• Reference:GB 1694 NMC/1860C
• Dates of Creation:2011
• Name of Creator:
  Monk, Jonathan
• Physical Description:
  3 of 13

• Scope and Content

  A4 printed sheets with instructions from the artist 'A Poster Project by Jonathan Monk'
  This special edition consists of ten posters by Jonathan Monk, originally made for a touring exhibition "Again, A Time Machine", commissioned by Book Works and Eastside Projects. The posters were made according to instructions given to Book Works by the artist, and fly-posted in locations in Birmingham, Bristol, Berlin, New York and London.The edition includes: Ten posters, printed offset litho on blue back poster paper, 841 x 594 mm. A black and white photograph of Martin Kippenberger (detail from fly-posted poster, Berlin), signed and numbered by the artist, 203 x 152 mm. Text work, instructions by Jonathan Monk. Art-work and design by James Langdon; photography by Stuart Whipps (Birmingham, Bristol, London); Jonathan Monk (Berlin) and Roberto De Luna (New York). Published by Book Works in an edition of 45.
  Information courtesy of Book Works: https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1745

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Jonathan Monk was born in Leicester in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin. He has a BFA from Leicester Polytechnic (1988) and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (1991). He studied in Glasgow alongside Douglas Gordon, David Shrigley and Christine Borland, and has known Shrigley (also from Leicester) since they were teenagers. Exploring notions of authorship, Monk is most well known for appropriating the work of other artists and using it for his own purposes. He views true originality as an impossibility, and draws upon material that has already been conceived of as a basis for his own artworks. However, Monk still understands his own work as novel. As he explains, “I always think that art is about ideas, and surely the idea of an original and a copy of an original are two very different things.”

• Note

  Jonathan Monk was born in Leicester in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin. He has a BFA from Leicester Polytechnic (1988) and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (1991). He studied in Glasgow alongside Douglas Gordon, David Shrigley and Christine Borland, and has known Shrigley (also from Leicester) since they were teenagers. Exploring notions of authorship, Monk is most well known for appropriating the work of other artists and using it for his own purposes. He views true originality as an impossibility, and draws upon material that has already been conceived of as a basis for his own artworks. However, Monk still understands his own work as novel. As he explains, “I always think that art is about ideas, and surely the idea of an original and a copy of an original are two very different things.”

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  Ink on paper
  Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm (A4)

• Related Material

  Part of Limited Edition poster project, all NMC/1860, A - M

• Additional Information

  Published

• Subjects

  Posters

  Design (arts)