SOL LEWITT RULES by Jonathan Monk

イギリス人アーティスト、ジョナサン・モンク(Jonathan Monk)の作品集。作者がフランス・パリの老舗ギャラリー「イヴォン・ランベール(YVON LAMBERT)」で初めて展覧会を開催したのは1997年のことだった。その後2014年に閉廊するまで、ギャラリストのイヴォン・ランベール(Yvon Lambert)との協働は続いた。2000年代初頭のある時、ランベールは作者に定規を渡した。その上部にはイニシャル「SL」が刻印されており、曰く、遡ること20年前、アメリカ人アーティスト、ソル・ルウィット(Sol LeWitt)が自身の作品を展示した後に置いていったものだという。この30cmの定規が、本書の出発点であり、本書はアーティスト・エディションとして作られた100点のセラミック製定規の記録でもある。このセラミック製定規はまっすぐではなく、数字も目盛りも入れられていない。イヴォン・ランベールから作者に贈られたオリジナルの定規と同じ形に作られた金型に、手作業で粘土を押し込んでいく、押出成形という製法が用いられている。セラミック製定規は、1980年代にソル・ルウィットの陶板やタイルの制作に深く関わっていた、イタリア・デルータにある歴史の長い陶芸工房「ラ・ジョコンダ(La Gioconda)」で制作された。

本書は、イタリア・スポレートのレジデンス兼ギャラリーであり、ソル・ルウィットが同スペースの最初の使用者であった「トッレ・ボノモ(Torre Bonomo)」で2024年6月から7月にかけて開催された展覧会に際し制作され、100枚の定規の写真が収録されており、ぱらぱらとめくると定規が動き出す。

Jonathan Monk's first show with Yvon Lambert’s Paris gallery was in 1997 and the artist continued working with him until he closed in 2014. At some point in the early 2000’s Yvon gave Monk a ruler, stamped into the top are the initials SL and he was told that twenty years earlier Sol LeWitt left it behind after installing a show. This 30cm ruler was the starting point for the publication and the edition of 100 ceramic rulers it documents. Jonathan Monk’s rulers aren’t straight, they don’t have any numbers nor lines on them and each one is slightly different to the next. The process used is the one of extrusion, pushing manually the clay through a metal profile made exactly as the original ruler given to the art­ist by Yvon Lambert. Sol LeWitt Rules was produced at the historical ceramic workshop La Gioconda in Deruta, which in the 1980s worked closely with Sol LeWitt for his production of ceramic plates and tiles. This book includes 100 photographs of the 100 rulers made on the occasion of Jonathan Monk’s exhibition SL at the Torre Bonomo in Spoleto. The quicker you flick through it, the faster it moves.

Co-published with Mahler & LeWitt Studios. Produced in the occasion of the exhibition SL, Jonathan Monk, Torre Bonomo, Spoleto All'interno del programma Mahler & LeWitt Studios per il Festival dei due Mondi.

by Jonathan Monk

REGULAR PRICE ¥4,950  (tax incl.)

softcover
208 pages
100 x 140 mm
black and white
limited edition of 300 copies
2024

published by VIAINDUSTRIAE

EXCLUSIVE SOL LEWITT RULES by Jonathan Monk [ARTIST EDITION]
SPECIAL EDITION OLD BERLIN POSTERS by Jonathan Monk [SPECIAL EDITION]
POSTERS OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 01 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
POSTERS OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 02 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
SOLD OUT OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 03 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
POSTERS OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 04 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
POSTERS OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 05 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
POSTERS OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 06 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
POSTERS OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 07 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
POSTERS OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 08 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
SOLD OUT OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 09 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
SOLD OUT OLD BERLIN POSTERS - POSTER: 10 by Jonathan Monk [SIGNED]
BOOOOOOOOOOK by Jonathan Monk
FROM THE YEAR I WAS BORN UNTIL THE YEAR I LEFT AMERICA by Jonathan Monk
ONE IN ONE HUNDRED (CHILD) by Jonathan Monk
TRA GLI ALBERI (AMONG THE TREES) by Jonathan Monk
SOLD OUT A BIT OF MATTER AND A LITTLE BIT MORE by Jonathan Monk
MY BACKSIDE by Jonathan Monk
AUTOBIOGRAPHY N.4 by Jonathan Monk
SOLD OUT ONE HUNDRED MEALS BETWEEN ROME AND BERLIN by Jonathan Monk
SOLD OUT THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER ISN'T NECESSARILY FUNNY by Jonathan Monk
SOLD OUT A COLLECTION OF NINE KIPPENBERGER EDITIONS, ONE BOETTI WATCH, A CIGARETTE AND YELLOW by Jonathan Monk
SPECIAL EDITION A COLLECTION OF NINE KIPPENBERGER EDITIONS, ONE BOETTI WATCH, A CIGARETTE AND YELLOW by Jonathan Monk [SPECIAL EDITION]