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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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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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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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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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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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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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....
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+. ...
Bremen. Neues Museum Weserburg, 1995 21 x 21cm folder which opens out to a cross. White card. 56pp inserted sheets and booklets in envelopes. The catalogue raisonne for Byars’ books, editions and ephemera. CD mounted inside. One of 1,200 copies. Fine....
Koln: Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig, 1995 30 x 21cm, 26pp. Embossed white wrappers. Exhibition catalogue with 3 b&w photos and text in German. Very good. ...
London: Independent on Sunday, 1995
21 x 30cm, 2pp. B/w offset print with 48 b/w images of the same smiling military man (from perhaps the 50s) taken from a found roll of film. Verso is a black and orange information about the Take Me (I'm Yours) exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery which Boltanski initiated along with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The artist appeals on the leaflet for information about the man in the images as Boltanski owns the family album and other belongings which "he would like to return to the family".
This unlimited print was issued as part of the exhibition (there were 11 other such prints from the likes of Gilbert & George, Lawrence Weiner, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Franz West and others) and were distributed in the Independent on Sunday newspaper with a different print found in each newspaper. Scarce despite the large numbers printed. VG+.
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N.p.: s.p., n.d. (1995) 16cm dis. black card circle with a single gold dot drawn in the centre - unique work given the the curator of a Byars exhibition in Leeds in 1995. Fine. ...