39 x 59 cm unique collage/appropriation comprising a vintage magazine cover from Signal Magazine mounted on cardboard and placed in a glass and wooden frame - the work is signed 'C. Boltanski' on the label on the back of the 40.5 x 60.5 cm frame which is also the dated, numbered and inscribed '1993, 4/16 (Unikat) Collage Jahresausgabe des Museumvereins Mönchengladbach 1993' . Each of the 16 issued works was unique with a different cover from Signals Magazine - the war time magazine had interested Boltanski for a long period because in part of the day to day activities to be found in the illustrations - belying the conflict that was happening throughout Europe....

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
17.4 x 9cm, 12pp plus card covers and printed dustjacket. Artist's book which is another of Finlay's inventive poetry formats. Here "corners" refers to poems where part of the word is on one side of a corner (here represented by the page end) and concluded on the other. The first part of the word gives on meaning and when completed by the second part the word has new meaning (sometimes related to the firs to create a new visual poem). For instance:

DAIS
Y

The 'Dais' refers to a sculptural platform, when completed the 'Daisy' creates a poetic view of the flower where the flower head is placed on the dais of the stem.
One of the corner poems was also published as a book mark by Finlay (Windflow/er) and can be found elsewhere on this site.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
8 x 14.8cm, 4pp (single folded sheet). Artist's card which internally has the concrete poem:

A, E, I, O, YOU.

Finlay must have been in love. Printed blue on green. VG+.

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Edinburgh: Graeme Murray, 1993
21 x 7.5cm, 8pp. Black on yellow folded single sheet, A publisher's/dealer's catalogue listing a number of works and books, etc by Finlay as well as Roger Ackling, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Andy Goldsworthy, Hamish Fulton, Alan Johnson, Pieter Laurens Mol, Linda Taylor, Edda Renouf and James Cramb available with prices. Graeme Murray was Finlay's dealer for many years. VG+.

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