1995 - Unoriginal Sins

04 May COMPOSITION (FRENCH DRIFTER). 1995.

Posted at 18:31h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
13 x 10.9cm, 1pp. The names of different fishing boats from around the coasts of Britain are arranged in a "constellation" form poem - the names are if read aloud sound poems - Mans Nobby and Manx Nickey, Fifie Skiff and Scaffie Yawl, Banff Zulu and Buckie Scaffie are matched up in pairs for instance.
The names and forms of boats has always fascinated Finlay who lived in a fisherman's community in his early life. VG+.

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26 Apr DIE HEIMAT IST NICHT DAS LAND … / THE NATIVE LAND IS NOT … 1995.

Posted at 21:39h in Prints + Posters

N.p.: n.p. , 1995
52 x 80cm, silver on grey silkscreen on card with typography by Andrew White after a quotation by Louis Antoine Saint-Just. This is an unsigned example of the print aside from the numbered edition. VG.

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25 Apr THE EVOLUTION OF THE BOAT. 1995.

Posted at 13:31h in Photographs

London: Edward Woodman, 1995
20.5 x 25.5cm, b/w silver gelatine original photograph of the Finlay public work "THE EVOLUTION OF THE BOAT" installed on a canal side in London. The work being a metal plaque with the text:

EVOLUTION OF THE BOAT

long boat
narrow boat
Short flying BOAT

Unique print showing a close up of the metal plaque.

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24 Apr THE EVOLUTION OF THE BOAT. 1995.

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17 Apr A COLLECTION OF PUBLICITY MATERIAL FOR MORNING STAR PRESS. 1995.

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Edinburgh: Morning Star Press, 1995
Four different leaflets, sizes vary which include a number of different Finlay publications (the Press was run by Eck Finlay, Ian's son). VG.

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15 Apr ANNIE HANNAFORD. 1995. UNIQUE BOX FROM “THE WORK PEOPLE OF HALIFAX”.

Posted at 14:16h in OBJECT MULTIPLES, UNIQUE WORKS

30 x 24 x 24cm, two part deliberately rusted tin box with pasted on label with the name "ANNIE HANNAFORD". An unique box from the large installation "The Work People of Halifax" first displayed in Yorkshire, UK in 1995. The installation consists of thousands of such boxes each with a label with a different name from the many employees of the Dean Clough carpet factory which closed in 1983. The size of the installation varies depending on the space allocated to it when exhibited.
This is one of the boxes - a gift from the artist. In VG+ condition.

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15 Apr MARY LISTER. 1995. UNIQUE BOX FROM “THE WORK PEOPLE OF HALIFAX”.

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30 x 24 x 24cm, two part deliberately rusted tin box with pasted on label with the name "MARY LISTER". An unique box from the large installation "The Work People of Halifax" first displayed in Yorkshire, UK in 1995. The installation consists of thousands of such boxes each with a label with a different name from the many employees of the Dean Clough carpet factory which closed in 1983. The size of the installation varies depending on the space allocated to it when exhibited.
This is one of the boxes - a gift from the artist. In VG+ condition.

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10 Apr ARCADIA. 1995.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
4 x 7cm, 4pp black on green folded card. Inside the poem is

ARCADIA
Rubber-powered aircraft are successfully launched over long grass on a calm day.
An image of childhood play with models is seen as an idyll of rural life. VG+.

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09 Apr MONOSTITCH.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
6 x 12cm, 4pp. A monostich is a one line poem -
Inside the poem reads "It rains, and the old thatched hut blossoms again".

Finlay is comparing the new foliage after spring's rains to the roofing made of branches in traditional homes. VG+.

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24 Mar DISPERSAL. 1995. PLASTIC BAG.

Posted at 17:34h in OBJECT MULTIPLES

London: Serpentine Gallery, 1995
46 x 41cm, printed plastic carrier bag. The first of a series of TAKE ME I'M YOURS exhibitions where the artworks could be taken away by visitors. Boltanski often created "Dispersions" - piles of second hand clothing that anyone was welcome to put into the specially printed bags (of which this is one example) and take home. Theoretically an unlimited edition but time limited. This example is in VG+ although folded for storage.

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20 Mar UNTITLED (1995). RELIC AS UNIQUE WORK

Posted at 22:04h in James Lee Byars

Relic. White porcelain circular dish, diameter 27.4 cm, filled with bread crumbs. This piece was created by J.L.B. for invited guests at the dinner offered by the Fondation Cartier pour L'Art Contemporain after the opening of his show at the restaurant "La Contre-Allée", Paris, 1995. Fine....

20 Mar JAMES LEE BYARS. 1995.

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Paris: Fondation Cartier pour L'art contemporain, 1995 22 x 16cm, 98pp. Pictorial boards. Monograph and exhibition catalogue. Illustrations in colour. Text in French. VG+. ...