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Jonathan Monk

One Hundred Meals Between Rome and Berlin 50 LIMITED EDITION

Italian, English
Paperback, 216 pages, 12 x 15 cm
2016
ISBN 9788899385224

Jonathan Monk

One Hundred Meals Between Rome and Berlin 50 LIMITED EDITION

Italian, English, Paperback, 216 pages, 12 x 15 cm, 2016.
ISBN 9788899385224

€50.00
SOLD OUT

British artist Jonathan Monk replays, recasts and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art by variously witty, ingenious and irreverent means. Speaking in 2009, he said, Appropriation is something I have used or worked with in my art since starting art school in 1987. At this time (and still now) I realised that being original was almost impossible, so I tried using what was already available as source material for my own work. A few years ago Monk moved to Rome for a while with his family. In Rome he adopted a pleasant gastronomic routine: restaurants and pizzerias, alone or with friends, but most of all with his family. Once back home, between the name of the restaurant and the foot of the bill, on top of all the various dishes consumed, the artist used a pencil, and sometimes watercolours, to reproduce the image of a work by another artist on the receipt or scrubby hand-written note. Clearly, the appropriationist approach which had characterised most of his work thus far also continued through this new life experience. This book brings together One Hundred Meals between Rome and Berlin.
Limited edition of 50 copies. Cover hand drawn by the artist.

CONTRIBUTORS

Luca Cerizza

CREDITS

Teresa Piardi (Maxwell studio)

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