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One Hundred Meals Between Rome and Berlin

Jonathan Monk - One Hundred Meals Between Rome and Berlin
A compilation of restaurants receipts collected between Rome and Berlin on which the British conceptual artist reproduced images of works by other artists (Luciano Fabro, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Jenny Holzer, André Cadere, Maurizio Cattelan…). Far from being innocent, this appropriationist gesture reflects on the art world economics while displaying a panorama of art history, stretching from the 1960s to the present day.
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.”
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 total of the bill, on top of all the various dishes consumed, the artist used a pencil, sometimes with 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 collects One Hundred Meals between Rome and Berlin.
This edition comes with two different covers (blue or pink), randomly distributed.
Born 1969 in Leicester, Great Britain, Jonathan Monk lives and works in Berlin.
Text by Luca Cerizza.

Graphic design: Teresa Piardi, Maxwell Studio.
 
published in December 2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
12 x 15 cm (softcover)
216 pages (color ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-88-99385-22-4
EAN : 9788899385224
 
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