Hamburg: Deichtorhallen Hamberg, 1995
89 x 60cm, b/w offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduced photograph of a sculptural work (See Poussin/Hear Lorraine) in situ at Little Sparta. This exhibition poster is unusually signed in pencil by Finlay under the image . VG.
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NYC: Printed Matter Inc, 1995
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a show of books and objects. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995 10.5 x 5cm, 4pp card with a 4pp insert. Two drawings - both concrete poems (or Calligrammes) one the original by Guillaume Apollinaire and the other by Ron Costley after Finlay's instruction. Apollinaire's Eloge de l'arbre has the text: "arbre qui fut la displante par Victor Hugo" - praising the socialist writer (the tree that was planted by Victor Hugo), Finlay's reflection becomes "Abre de la liberte et sa floraison"(Liberty tree and its flowering) a reference to the french Revolution and the symbolic trees shown at the feasts and celebrations. A lovely small concrete work. VG+. ...
London: Tate Gallery,1995
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a image of the Beuys installation "Earthquake in the Palazzo" from 1981. Verso museum details. VG+.
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Hamburg: Deichtorhallen Hamberg, 1995
30 x 21cm, 7pp (stapled) gallery hand out for a large Finlay retrospective with short texts in German and English. VG+.
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30 x 21cm, 1pp floor plan and list of works. VG although formerly folded for storage.
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Kiel: Galerie Sfeir-Semler, 1995
11.5 x 10cm, 4pp, Artist's card with a photograph by Robin Gillanders of a piece of rusted corrugated iron against a wall in Little Sparta under which Finlay has placed the word LYRE. The ruts in the iron look like the various lines of a stringed lyre.
This is in fact an announcement card for an exhibition of ceramic jars, slates, neons and paperworks by Finlay in Germany. For some reason it is been mis-categorised as an artists' card in the WIld Hawthorn Press; listings of artist's card and while it is indeed an original card work we have returned it to the correct designation. VG+.
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Nurnberg; Germanisches National Museum, 1995
18.5 x 12.5cm, 72pp plus grey boards with polarised image of a school class. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book issued during the solo show in the German city where the title school class was photographed in 1931. The book then displays each of the faces from the group photograph one after another in close up - with the blurring tending to make the visages ghostly. Of course, one does not know the fate of these Jewish people - but it is very likely many were murdered by the Nazis. Essay in German. VG+.
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Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag,1995
27 x 25.5cm, 228pp plus pictorial card covers. A major monograph of Finlay's public works issued at the same time as the exhibtion: "Ian Hamilton Finlay: works, pure and political" held at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, 7 Sept. - 26 Nov. 1995, There are 95 b/w images and texts in German. Edited by Zdener Felix and Pia Smilig. VG+.
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Hamburg: Deichhtorhallen Hamberg, 1995
10 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with an image of a public installation IHR HOLDEN SCHWANE/TUNKIT IHR DAS HAUPT on the front in b/w. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
9.2 x 8cm, 4pp, Artist's card with a photograph of a airplane smoke trail in the sky which vaguely resembles a bow with an arrow prepared to fire. Internally there is a quotation from Genesis 9:13: " I do set my bow in the cloud" - which Finlay responds as "contrail". VG+.
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Dusseldorf: Galerie M & R. Fricke, 1995
22 x 17cm, 100pp. Boards and printed dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue of city wide public art curated by Marion and Roswitha Fricke with works from Bogomir Ecker, Ingo Gunter, Shirazeh Houshiary, Kazui Karase, Raimund Kummer, Inge Mahn, Hermann Pitz and Kiki Smith as well as Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Finlay's contribution was a wall plaque "Equality does not consist in everyone being arrogant but in everyone being modest": quotation from Louis-Antoine Saint-Just. There is a short text in German by Marion Frick one the work and a full page colour image of the installation in situ. VG+.
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Stuttgart: Oktagon Verlag, 1995
17 x 13.5cm, 32pp which include 23 full colour 8.7 x 12.5cm "Kodak" photographs loosely tipped onto blank pages plus title page and colophon. Padded orange boards with foil stamped title. First edition of this artist's book which was designed to look like a family photographic album.
The photographs purport to be souvenirs of a family holiday at Berck-Plage in August 1975 and have the over bright colours found in the colour stock of the time - and an over saturated colour pallet that Boltanski has used in some of his mid-career photographic studies.
As with all of Boltanski's work one is left unsure if the images are genuinely from the artist's family records or found from some other vintage source?
This is one of 500 signed and numbered copies in pencil on the colophon by the artist. The series of Oktagon artist's books was edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist who has since worked several times with Boltanski including the series of "Take Me I'm yours" exhibitions from the late 90s. VG+ condition.
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