Picture Post Card Posted From Post Box Pictured
The latest edition in Jonathan Monk’s series of photographic postcards. Postcards are signed by the artist and mailed (post-paid) from the mailbox pictured in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, where the director of einBuch.haus was grown up.
Monk (b. 1969) has previously organised these postcard editions in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Mexico, Winnipeg, Llandudno, Reykjavik, Kirby Muxloe, Vienna, Melbourne, Dublin, Tokyo, San Francisco, Malmo, Basel, etc.
The following text extracted from Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller Inc.
From the ongoing conversation between Adam Carr and Jonathan Monk published by Collecteurs (accessed April 2023): “I’d been thinking about postcard pieces and how I could make something really specific to a particular post box. The post box, for me, was a really important receptacle for communication. Sadly, it’s becoming a dysfunctional part of our lives – I’ve lost faith in the postal system… but anyway, the title was the thing that got me excited by the idea – simply descriptive but funny and poetic. Once I set the idea in motion it was quite easy to add cities to the list – all I need is a willing participant to post off the cards. These people generally become the publishers.”
“Jonathan Monk is engaged in an on-going series of signed postcard editions all with the same title, Picture Post Card Posted from the Post Box Pictured. At his solo ICA exhibition in London in December 2005, Monk made a postcard of the nearest postbox to the gallery, in Waterloo Place, to add to the similar postcards already published for shows in New York, Edinburg, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, and so on...”–Jeremy Cooper, Artists’ Postcards: A Compendium (2012), p. 138.
Picture Post Card Posted From Post Box Pictured
Jonathan Monk
einBuch.haus, 2023
Postcard, 148 × 105 mm
unlimited edition, signed
*The postcard is sent without envelope and without tracking. You'll receive a confirmation once the postcard is sent from Seoul (please allow three or four weeks after receiving your order).
*This image is for reference purpose only. The final condition of each postcard rests with the vagaries of the postal system.
