Art Metropole

#04498

Five women old enough to be my mother coloured in using my father's watercolours

Artist

Jonathan Monk

Date

2008

Publisher

Self-Published

Format

Posters

Size

21.1 × 29.7 cm

Length

5 

Using a group of five photographic portraits, taken from Ed Ruscha’s series “5 girlfriends from 1955” (1972) first published in the documenta 5 catalogue, Monk entangles them with his own biography through a series of successive translations and modest alterations. The hand coloured prints relate both proximity and distance from a history, personal or otherwise.

Set of 5 black and white inkjet prints on European standard, hand coloured with watercolours. Includes signed certificate. Unique work.