JONATHAN MONK / SOL LEWITT RULES

Jonathan Monk's first exhibition with Yvon Lambert's Paris gallery was in 1997, and the artist continued to work with him until the gallery closed in 2014. In the early 2000s, Yvon gave Monk a ruler stamped with the initials SL, explaining that Sol LeWitt had left it behind after installing an exhibition twenty years earlier. This 30 cm ruler inspired a publication and an edition of 100 ceramic rulers documented therein. Jonathan Monk's rulers are not straight, they lack numbers and lines, and each one is slightly different from the n...[Read more]