A Place to Which We Can Come, and for a While “Be Free to Think About What We Are Going to Do” / Jonathan Monk
イギリス人アーティスト、ジョナサン・モンク(Jonathan Monk)の作品集。2026年3月4日から6日にかけて、デザイナーであるハナ・ハイマーディンガー(Hana Herimerdinger)は、父である作者のベルリンのスタジオをアナログカメラで記録した。キュレーターであり美術史家のルカ・チェリッツァ(Luca Cerizza)が編集を手がけた本書は、タイトル「私たちが来ることができ、そしてしばらくのあいだ『これから何をするかを自由に考える』場所(A Place to Which We Can Come, and for a While "Be Free to Think About What We Are Going to Do")」からも読み取れるように、長らく「ポスト・スタジオ(post-studio)」、つまりアトリエで手を動かして作品を物理的に作るという伝統的な創作スタイルから離れた実践のなかで、スタジオをアーカイブの場であると同時に、思考と仕事の新たな可能性が生まれる場として讃えるものである。
Between March 4 and 6, 2026, Hana Herimerdinger documented her father Jonathan Monk‘s Berlin studio with an analog camera. Edited by Luca Cerizza, A Place to Which We Can Come, and for a While “Be Free to Think About What We Are Going to Do”* is, beginning with its title, a celebration of the studio as both an archival space and a site for new possibilities of thought and work, within a practice long considered “post-studio.” Exploring this space, we are invited to look at works pulled from crates, displayed and set in dialogue with one another—from early pieces to projects still taking shape—offering a view across three decades of work, its linguistic references, and its creative methods.
The graphic design by publisher bruno, meanwhile, plays freely with the manipulative and combinatory possibilities inherent in Monk’s practice, adding yet another linguistic layer to an ongoing conversation between past and present. Like a partial and deliberately unsystematic catalogue, this book documents, categorizes, and discusses—through a critical essay by Cerizza—hundreds of works, and undoubtedly many ideas, as part of a body of production that is almost impossible to measure.
- Pages: 304 Size: 170 x 240 mm Softcover Color, black and white