Alex Snukal | Me and Julio Down by Diter's Dung Hole

Alex Snukal
Me and Julio Down by Diter's Dung Hole 
Toronto, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2009
10 x 15 cm
Edition of 25
$50.00 CDN

Snukal responds to a postcard edition originally created by Yoko Ono in 1971 and altered by Diter Rot the following year (see below posts). Making literal a quote from a Julio Cortázar novel that invokes a euphoric epiphany as equivocal to pushing a pebble through one's asshole, Snukal one-up's Diter with a third iteration.

Each card is hand altered by pushing a stone through its centre hole, and with the following silkscreened text:

"…look at the world through the eye of your asshole and you’ll see patterns pretty as can be, the pebble had to pass through the eye of your asshole…"

From Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar, 1966



Available at the London Art Fair later this month, or via nothingelsepress@rogers.com.

Dieter Roth | Asshole

Dieter Rot[h]
Asshole
Heidelberg, Germany: Edition Staeck, 1972
10 x 15 cm.
Edition size unknown

Published a year after the original (see below), this card transforms Yoko Ono's A Hole to See the Sky Through with a self portrait doodle and an alteration to the text so that it now reads "D.Rot's Asshole Looking At Yoko Ono".

Yoko Ono | A Hole To See The Sky Through

Yoko Ono
A Hole To See The Sky Through
Heidelberg, Germany: Edition Staeck,  1971
10 x 15 cm
Edition size unknown

Ono has produced several cards with holes to see the sky/universe/rainbows through: the numbered card that accompanies the Rykodisc CD reissue of It's Alright (I See Rainbows) in 1997, a card included in the 2004 Yoko Ono Yes Box, the dust jacket flap of the monograph Yoko Ono Arias and Objects, etc. etc.

This is the original 1971 version, published by artist Klaus Staeck. Edition Staeck has published numerous postcards by artists, including Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Robert Filliou, Sigmar Polke, Ben Vautier, and Dieter Roth, who responded to Ono's card (see following post).

David Shrigley | Passport Photo

David Shrigley
Passport Photo
Toronto, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2008
colour photo, 1.5" x 2"
Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies
$85.00 CAD


The second Nothing Else Press edition is the second passport photo by Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley. A few copies remain and it is still available at it's original price (despite appearing on Ebay for almost four times the price - see below).

We'll have the piece at the fair, or it can be ordered now at nothingelsepress@rogers.com.



Bio:

"David Shrigley is best known for his simple and direct drawings and animations that make satirical comments on everyday situations and human interactions. His work, which spans the last twenty years, holds significant public appeal and reveal the artist’s black humour, macabre intelligence and infinite jest. Since the early nineties, Shrigley has also produced a continuous flow of artist’s books.  Whilst drawing is at the centre of his practice the artist also works with photography, sculpture, animation, painting. Shrigley regularly has his cartoons published in publications such as The Guardian and New Statesman.

Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968. Shrigley studied Fine Art in the Department of Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1988–91. Recent solo exhibitions include Signs, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2013); Animations, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen (2012–13); How Are You Feeling?, Cornerhouse, Manchester, (2012–13); Brain Activity, Hayward Gallery, London (2012); Animate, Turku Art Museum, Finland (2011) Yvon Lambert, Paris (2011); and BQ, Berlin (2011). His numerous group exhibitions include The Roving Eye: Aura and the Contemporary Portrait, Oakland University Art Gallery, Michigan (2013); Homelands, British Council Touring Exhibition, travelling to Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Bengaluru (2013); and What are you like?, House of Illustration, Holburne Museum, Bath, (2012). Shrigley has also published many books of his work including Fragments of Torn Up Drawings (2011), What the Hell Are You Doing? (2010) and Red Book (2009).

In 2013 David Shrigley was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize."

Jonathan Monk | Picture Postcard Posted from Postbox Pictured

Jonathan Monk
Picture Postcard Posted from Postbox Pictured
Toronto, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2006
4” x 6”
Edition of 200 signed copies
$50.00 CDN

The first edition we produced as The Nothing Else Press is the Toronto version of the brilliant Picture Postcard Posted From Postbox Pictured series. When a card is purchased we notify the artist, who signs and addresses the card from Berlin (ore more recently, Rome) and mails the postcard to us, in an envelope. We remove the envelope, affix postage and deliver the card to the buyer from the mailbox pictured on the front of the card. Which, incidentally, has since moved in the last 8 years and had to be tracked down a few blocks away.

Available for purchase at the London Art Book Fair later this month, or from nothingelsepress@rogers.com.



Jonathan Monk was born in Leicester in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin/Rome. He has a BFA from Leicester Polytechnic (1988) and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (1991). Solo exhibitions include Centro De Arte Contemporáneo (CAC) Málaga (2013), Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria (2013), Palais de Tokyo and Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris (2008), Kunstverein Hannover (2006), Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2005) and Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf (2003). His work has been included in many group exhibitions, including Whitney Biennial (2006), the 50th and 53rd Venice Biennales (2003, 2009), Berlin Biennale (2001) and Taipei Biennial (2000). He was awarded the Prix du Quartier Des Bains, Geneva in 2012.

Monk uses a wide range of media, including painting, installation, performance, photography and video. His practice engages with the notions of reproduction, copy and the multiple. Often revisiting seminal artworks from the 1960s and 70s, his work pays homage to Conceptual and Minimal art, at times with humorous irreverence, at others with poetic sentimentalism, incorporating autobiographical details alongside art historical references. By restaging these newly historicized works, Monk challenges the notions of authenticity, authorship and value that still inform many contemporary art practices despite the critical legacy of this conceptual tradition.

Jonathan Monk is represented by Lisson Gallery, London, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris and New York, Meyer Riegger, Berlin and Karlsruhe, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin,  Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Casey Caplan Gallery, New York, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Christina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon.

London Art Book Fair

Roula Partheniou and myself will be attending the London Art Book Fair later this month, with a table for our Nothing Else Press. In addition to our existing editions by Jonathan Monk, David Shrigley, Micah Lexier, Michael Dumontier, Vanessa Maltese and others, we will be launching five new works at the fair.

The opening event is on Thursday September 25th from 6 to 9pm, and the fair continues through to Sunday with the following opening hours:

Friday September 26th: 11am – 9pm.
Saturday and Sunday:  11am – 6pm.

Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX

For the duration of the month I'll post items we'll have for sale at the booth (our own publications and other items) as well as information about programming including talks, workshops and events.

We'll have a few days before and after the fair (as well as a couple of days in Amsterdam) so if there's something we shouldn't miss, please let us know.

Peter Saville | Basic Knots

Peter Saville
Basic Knots
London, UK: Furnished Space, 2014
50 x 70 cm.
Edition of 75

A screenprinted cotton tea towel by artist and designer Peter Seville, best known for his work as the visual director of Factory records, and his iconic covers for Joy Division and New Order.

The work was commissioned by Tamsin Clark as part of Sex Shop for Folkestone Fringe 2014, where it remains on display until Saturday October 4th, from 11 to 5 pm on weekends at 5 Rendezvous Street, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 IEY. The design of the towel references the classic seaside souvenir fisherman's knot motif, but replaces them with knots commonly used in bondage.

Available for £30 from the publisher, here.