Jonathan Monk
The Billboard Book Project (NY)

, 2014

Hardcover: cardboard, cotton and silk fabric, 2 color foil stamp; 2 offset printed folded posters

Book: 25 x 33 cm (9.8 x 13 in); Posters: 91.5 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in)

Edition of 20

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About Jonathan Monk

Jonathan Monk's (born 1969 in Leicester, UK) activity as an artist has been perhaps the most vexing for traditionalists who seek an autograph signature on the part of an artist. Seemingly endless are Monk's citations of his predecessors, in works dedicated to Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, On Kawara, Alighiero Boetti, and others. Yet his own aesthetic and imprint emerges, emblazoned on the contemporary,… Read more

About the artwork

The third of Monk's billboard book projects, this New York edition sees the artist pairing up with local designer Benjamin Critton to develop two posters cleverly folded to be included in the resulting book as well as decorating the streets of Brooklyn during NY Art Book Fair 2013. Flatly describing the conditions of their production, as in previous works by Monk, the posters name all the parties involved in the realization of the project and describe its exact unfolding. Highly intellectual, The Billboard Book Project makes art by describing the process of its creation, an ingenious commentary on the production and institutionalization of contemporary art.