26 Jul SOME DIAGONAL LINES. 2015.
Pittenweem: Cairn, n.d. (2015)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp, typographic announcement card for a joint show between Bellingham and Thomas A. Clark where the space was covered in coloured diagonal lines. VG+.
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21 Jul HIDDEN SOLAR SYSTEM. 2015. WHITE CARD VARIANT.
Iona: Iona Craft Shop, 2015
21 x 15cm, letterpress and foil stamping on thick white card, 2pp. Bellingham was commissioned by the Iona Craft Shop to create a new work and he made various scale models of the planets out of bronze and buried them in a remote field on the island of Iona. Each was buried a relative distance from the surface as their average orbits are from the sun. There is no overground record other than the map on the back of this card that shows where the works are - and even that map only shows the outline of the field. Jupiter was the size of an orange and Pluto (hmmm - a planet?) the size of a pea. Mercury is four inches from ground level and Neptune is found nine feet deep.
There are two cards - one on white, the other on brown, this is the former..
"There is nothing to see, just a story to tell about a buried solar system that mimics the one about our heads."
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18 Jul LITTLE SPARTA: PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN. 2015.
Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2015
25./4 x 23.3cm, 64pp plus boards. First edition of this photobook by Finlay collaborator Gillanders with 31 black and white photographs documenting Little Sparta, in Scotland, accompanied by an essay by Gillanders and an Aafterword by Alec Finlay. VG+.
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09 Jul TAKE ME (I’M YOURS). 2015. WITH ORIGINAL ADHESIVE STICKERS.
Paris: Dilecta Editions, 2015
30 x 22cm, 64pp plus card covers. Additionally there are seven 30 x 22cm, 1pp sheets of adhesive stickers with one work by each of the participating artists. The exhibition catalogue of a exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski at the Monnaie de Paris where all of the works were available for the visitors to take home (at least in part). Boltanski's contribution was a dispersion of second hand clothing in printed paper bags.
Other artists included James Lee Byars, Gilbert & George, Jeremy Deller, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Holler, Jonathan Horowitz, Gustav Metzger, Philippe Parreno, Yoko Ono and others.
The catalogue also acted as a sticker album - the colour stickers on the sheets being expected to be peeled off and places in the correct space in the book. This copy retains all of the stickers on the original sheets and is VG+.
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24 Jun LES REGISTRES DU GRAND-HORNU/APRES. 2015.
Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu,2015
15.5 x 11.5cm, outer card folder which opens to 6pp (unprinted). Tipped in such that they open up to 42 x 30cm, 1pp are posters on the left and right sides of the open sheets for the two works (Les Registres du Grand-Hornu and Apres), in the middle is a 15 x 10cm, 8pp with texts by Laurent Busine and Boltanski in French.
An unusually designed exhibition catalogue for the artist's Belgium show. VG+. Scarce.
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28 May VARIOUS SMALL FIRES AND MILK/ CE QUI RESTE SANS RESTER. 2015. SIGNED BY MONK.
Tours: Centre de Creation Contemporaine Olivier Debre, 2015
13.5 x 21cm, 2pp typographic announcement leaflet with a text that describes an Ed Ruscha book which has been modified by Monk to create a new work. This leaflet is signed in black felt tipped pen by Monk. VG+.
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28 May CE QUI RESTE SANS RESTER. 2015. SIGNED BY MONK.
Tours: Centre de Creation Contemporaine Olivier Debre, 2015
13.5 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card with a work by Monk on the front after Ed Ruscha. A group show with the participation of Claude Closky, Pierre Huyghe, Ari Marcopoulos, Maurizio Nannucci and others (displaying artist's books). Signed by Monk in felt tipped pen on the reverse. VG+.
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21 Apr HIDDEN SOLAR SYSTEM. 2015. BROWN CARD VARIANT.
Iona: Iona Craft Shop, 2015
21 x 15cm, letterpress and foil stamping on thick brown card, 2pp. Bellingham was commissioned by the Iona Craft Shop to create a new work and he made various scale models of the planets out of bronze and buried them in a remote field on the island of Iona. Each was buried a relative distance from the surface as their average orbits are from the sun. There is no overground record other than the map on the back of this card that shows where the works are - and even that map only shows the outline of the field. Jupiter was the size of an orange and Pluto (hmmm - a planet?) the size of a pea. Mercury is four inches from ground level and Neptune is found nine feet deep.
There are two cards - one on white, the other on brown, this is the latter.
"There is nothing to see, just a story to tell about a buried solar system that mimics the one about our heads."
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15 Mar LA SALLE DES PENDUS. 2015.
Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains, 2015
35.5 x 23.5cm, 4pp museum handout for the large retrospective which divided the works up into 7 sections - Les Pendus, Le Spectateur, Lew Boites, Les Vetements, La Lumiere, Les Archives du Coeur, Les Compteurs. The handout is in French and English with both sections with the same images - seven small b/w installation views and an interview with Botlanski in both languages. VG+.
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15 Mar LA SALLE DES PENDUS. 2015.
Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains, 2015
30 x 21cm, 8pp museum catalogue for the large retrospective which divided the works up into 7 sections - Les Pendus, Le Spectateur, Lew Boites, Les Vetements, La Lumiere, Les Archives du Coeur, Les Compteurs. Two large colour images of a Box installation and a huge clothing installation (a mountain of discarded clothes), several smaller colour images and one b/w image. VG+
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01 Mar MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK. 2015.
Saint-Ouen: Untilthen, 2015
10 x 29.7cm, 6pp typographic announcement card for a joint exhibition between Rodney Graham and Monk. VG+.
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23 Feb TRACE. 2015.
Glasgow: Seebed Press, 2015
15 x 21cm, 52pp in embossed and printed thick boards, string bound. A cataloguing of the works commissioned by the European Association of Archaeologists Glasgow up to 2015. Works include the Boyle Family, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Catherine Mooney, Kate Downie as well as Finlay's ALL GREATNESS STANDS FIRM IN THE STORM from 1990 where the text in Greek (a translated quotation by Heidegger from Plato's Republic) was inscribed in both languages on the granite pillars of the Old Caledonian Railway Bridge over the River Clyde. The site specific work clearly emphasises the structure and its solidity over the centuries. One colour image of the work is reproduced. VG+.
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