15 Apr GYMNASIUM CHASES. 1993.
NYC: Lawrence Miller, 1993
9.4 x 21.5cm, 1pp typographic announcement card. VG=.
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08 Apr AUTUMN. 1993.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
10 x 10cm, 4pp. Folding card with a line drawing by Stephen Duncalf, of a plastic model of a tank on the front - the various parts waiting to be assembled are still on the plastic stalks. Inside is a poem:
AUTUMN.
brings us again
familiar colour<Desert Yellow,
Panzer Grey.
The colours of the Fall are conjured up in the colours used by model makers for tank camouflage. VG+.
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04 Apr LES MOTS A SECRETS. 1993. ONE OF ONLY 160 SIGNED & NUMBERED EDITIONS.
Paris, Yvon Lambert Editeur, 1993
Two part blue cardboard box with handwritten title label content of 19 sheets containing Lebensztejn's text "Une rêverie émanée de mes loisirs," each accompanied by an original line drawing by Boltanski on tracing paper.
Each text page is thus overlaid with a drawing; the lines, drawn in 5 color pencils, link letters in the text, with the combinations of letters forming quotations from 5 writers; a letterpress key to the drawings gives the quotations (from Tadeusz Kantor, Federico Fellini, Jacques Demy, the Talmud and Ingmar Bergman) in mirror writing. Each text sheet/drawing pair is enclosed in a green paper folder.
There is an introductory page and a colophon page as well as a sheet explaining the work with the key to the drawings.
Boltanski's intervention into the book finding hidden texts within the larger commentary.
Very good condition with some minor fading to the blue box but internally VG++. Scarce.
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03 Apr IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 12/1794. 1993.
Zeight: Ernst A. Busche 1993
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a solo show displaying works inspired by the French revolution. VG+.
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24 Mar JACOBIN. AFTER STEPHEN EDLICH 1944 – 1989. 1993.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
12.2 x 8cm, 4pp. Folding card with a drawing by Gary Hinks on the front which is in the style of the Edlich who used wood and other found objects in his cubist-like works. Here the drawing shows what looks like a found piece of wood with the word "JACOBIN" on it. One assumes Finlay felt that Edlich was somewhat Jacobin in his life. VG+.
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20 Mar THEPERFECTSMILE. 1993.
Byars, James Lee THEPERFECTSMILE Köln: Museum Ludwig, 1993 25 x 65cm, folded (8 panels) leporello printed gold on thick card. Text in German - the card is able to stand up without support. JOINT AS ISSUED Byars, James Lee THEPERFECTSMILE Köln: Museum Ludwig, 1993 5 x 8cm, 1pp business card with the text THEPERFECTSMILE printed gold on black inside 8 x 11 black custom envelope. JOINT 22.3 x 32cm, black unprinted envelope which contained both of the above items. All fine. ...
19 Mar YOURPRESENCEISTHEBESTWORK. 1993.
N.p.(Venice) : s.p., 1993 1.8cm dia., gold circle with the tiny title text. Distributed at the 1993 Venice Biennial. Fine....
19 Mar JAMES LEE BYARS WORKS FROM THE 60S / RECENT WORKS. 1993.
NYC: Michael Werner, 1993 19 x12cm, unpaginated (56)pp plus boards with tipped-on b/w reproduction of a work. The concise exhibition catalogue for two consecutive exhibitions in the Werner Gallery - the first being of works from the early part of Byars' career (with seven b/w illustrations) and, a second show of more recent “books” (which are usually sculptures) which are all displayed herein as eight full colour plates. ...
18 Mar GYMNASIUM CHASES. 1993.
Frankfurt am Main: Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, 1993 65 x 49.5cm, red and black on white offset lithographic exhibition poster with one b/w photographic image above museum text. Folded for storage else VG+....
13 Mar SEVEN BOLLARDS: A PROPOSAL FOR A SHOPPING CENTRE. 1993.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
11.6 x 9.2cm, 16pp plus card covers and dust jacket with title label. A proposal for the Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh which consisted of seven bollards near a landscaped area each with two boat names and registration number etched on them one above the other to create seven short poems. Drawings by John Andrew and Gary Hincks. In the notes Finlay explains each poem and its Greek reference.
One sich poem is:
OLIVE
LEAF
BCK 210
SERENE
BF46
which creates an appeal for peace. Finlay notes a Shakespeare quotation "and peace proclaims olives of endless age".
VG+. ...
13 Mar AUTUMN.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.
18 x 14cm, 4pp brown outer folder content of a 4pp insert with a poem by Finlay:
AUTUMN.
The woods
milestones
The mountains
signposts.
Finlay indicates how the distant hills act as means of orientating a traveller and the trees act as steps on the way in any rural journey. VG+.
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28 Feb JOSEPH BEUYS. 1993.
Torino: Castello Di Rivara, 1993
11.7 x 8.6cm, 4pp typographic announcement card for an exhibition with portrait of the artist on front, internally gallery details. VG+.
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