Jonathan MONK, Billboard Project #1

For fan of conceptual artist’s books (and only for them ?), Three Star Books has just published the last book effort by Jonathan Monk. The Billboard Project is just what its title say, but in a brilliant way: Monk photographed, or more precisely had somebody photograph a 4x3m billboard he designed to be the colophon of the future book. Symmetrically, the internal pages of this book are actually sliced cuts of the billboard (the visual result being a mix of Martin Kippenberger’s Old Vienna Posters and Giovanni Anselmo’s Leggere).

Each detail has been thought over. For instance, every person involved in the production has been mentioned in the colophon. And the price of the book, published in only 40 copies, is the one given by the advertisement for a digital camera, visible at the left of the billboard: 599 EUR.