SOL LEWITT RULES by Jonathan Monk

Jonathan MonkYVON LAMBERT19972014Yvon Lambert2000SL20Sol LeWitt30cm1001980La Gioconda

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Jonathan Monk’s first show with Yvon Lamberts Paris gallery was in 1997 and the artist continued working with him until he closed in 2014. At some point in the early 2000s Yvon gave Monk a ruler, stamped into the top are the initials SL and he was told that twenty years earlier Sol LeWitt left it behind after installing a show. This 30cm ruler was the starting point for the publication and the edition of 100 ceramic rulers it documents. Jonathan Monks rulers arent straight, they dont have any numbers nor lines on them and each one is slightly different to the next. The process used is the one of extrusion, pushing manually the clay through a metal profile made exactly as the original ruler given to the artist by Yvon Lambert. Sol LeWitt Rules was produced at the historical ceramic workshop La Gioconda in Deruta, which in the 19