Jonathan Monk | Restaurant Drawing (Louise Lawler, What Else Could I Do, 1994)

Jonathan Monk

Restaurant Drawing (Louise Lawler, What Else Could I Do, 1994)

Toronto, Canada: Paul+Wendy Projects, 2025

7.5 x 19 cm.

Edition size unknown

A size-as reproduction of one of Jonathan Monk's brilliant restaurant drawings (see previous posts here, here and here), which are drawings on meal receipts sold for the cost of the meal. 

This drawing is based on Louise Lawler's What Else Could I Do, 1994, a photograph of a Gerhard Richter candle painting, a nod to Sonic Youth who later used Richter's image on the cover of their Daydream Nation LP.

The work is not for sale, but rather given away as a bookmark for the first hundred copies of my new book My Friend Goo: Memes, Mashups and Remixes, which is available from Paul + Wendy Projects, here. The work collects almost a hundred memes based on the Sonic Youth LP cover by Raymond Pettibon, and uses them as a way to discuss duplication and mutation in culture. 

It was a wise choice of the publishers (I’m far more likely to have a receipt as a placeholder in a book than anything formally produced for this reason) and smart of Monk to go with Richter (mediated through Lawler) instead of Pettibon. 

 

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