10 Oct

Posted at 09:17h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
Two cards in same format although one is printed blue on white, the other brown on white - each 6.7 x 10cm, 4pp (assymetric fold) . The cards both have PL on the front but when opened the blue card reads PL/OVER and the brown card reads PL/OUGH. Both are things (bird and farming equipment) that one would find in spring. The blue and brown, of course, reflecting the sky and dirt (blue and brown being often used by Finlay in part for the sky/earth dichotomy but also an oblique reference to Wittgenstein). VG+ in like envelope.

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10 Oct

Posted at 08:52h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
8 x 6.8cm, 4pp card with a digital photographic montage of the proposed temple along with a poem by Finlay internally:

Near
the donkey's fence
the rowing boat
leaves
for the Claude.

Claude is perhaps Claude Lorrain painter of idealised landscapes often looking out to see with a sunset causing a sense of wanderlust but the word is similar to the Clyde; the Scottish river that begins at the Falls of the Clyde which is not so far from Dunsyre and Little Sparta. The rowing boat also is perhaps being compared to an upturned leaf in its leaving.
Finlay also produced an artist's book as a proposal for this monument which again compares one thing - the vengeful god Apollo with Saint-Just another famously judgemental figure. VG+.

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09 Oct

Posted at 23:35h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
12.1 x 8.3cm, 2pp card with a poem by Finlay after Eugen Gromringer's "Cars and Cars" although Finlay moves the context to that of fishermen and their boats. Finlay also notes Theocritus, Idylls XXI - The Fishermen - where two fishermen discuss a dream in which one sees a golden fish and after discussing the meaning of the dream, they come to the realisation that their wealth will come from their catches. Finlay repeats (after the original) in different combinations the images of creels, men, net-ropes, cobles - each creating a subtly different image ending with "men and men". VG+.

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02 Oct

Posted at 23:54h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
6 X 6cm, 4pp outer card with a 5pp concertina folded sheet tipped on that opens up to 5 x 23.5cm list of all the monarchs of France from Louis Premier to the deposed and beheaded Louise Seize and finally the last name is Louise David the revolutionary painter who documented in paint the events from before 1789 to Napoleon and to the restoration of the Bourbons hence David is the culmination of the succession and the most noble of the men listed. VG+.

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30 Sep

Posted at 22:25h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Prague: AFAA / Institut Français de Prague, 1994
30 x 22cm, 40pp plus card covers - the all bound clamped in a wooden rod! Exhibition catalogue for a major retrospective exhibition with many of the shadow play works on display along with other major installations. Colour and b/w images throughout, an essay in Czech and French by Gunter Metkem and an interview with the artist, VG+ condition and rather unusual format with the wooden stick.

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24 Sep

Posted at 23:46h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
10.5 x 5.7cm, 4pp card with a series of purple numbers made up of the randomly changing sequence of 1 - 6 (apart from the top number which is made up of seven numbers 1 - 7). A green line moves erratically down through the numbers separating them into two parts. The top three numbers have a thin line between them and the ones below.
The latin name for the foxglove flower is Digitalis purpurea - which might be read as purple digits hence this bastardisation of the latin creates a visual poem aided by the two colours. VG+.

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23 Sep

Posted at 10:01h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Bellingham, 1994
14.7 x 11. 5cm, 24pp hand made artist's book which has alternative black and white card pages and between the pages Small yellow inserts with hand typed text with opposing adverbs and adjectives such as on/off and light/dark or left/right before/after or that/this and this that. The front cover is also typed with a long list of complementary colours such as blue/red and yellow green.
This is one of only 35 hand-made books (each was typed by Belllingham) and one of the artist's very first works made while he was still a student. VG+ in original plastic transparent envelope as issued. The book is signed and numebred by the artist on the inside back cover. Very rare.

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23 Sep

Posted at 09:55h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Bellingham, 2016
14.7 x 11. 5cm, 28pp plus card covers. An unique hand made artist's book which has black inner pages on which half have diagonal close hatched lines hand-drawn on each page to take up 50% of the space of the page - hence "Half full/half empty".
This is one of only 35 hand-made books but each is (as noted) unique and one of the artist's very first works made while he was still a student. VG+ in original plastic transparent envelope as issued. The title is hand written on the front and the back in pencil and the book is signed and dated by the artist on the back cover. Very rare.

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23 Sep

Posted at 09:50h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Bellingham, 2016
14.7 x 11. 5cm, 24pp hand made artist's book which has black and white card pages which have been split by the artist and string bound together. As a result each page is black and white in equal amount. This is one of only 35 hand-made books and one of the artist's very first works made while he was still a student. VG+ in original plastic transparent envelope as issued. The title is hand written on the front and the back in pencil and the book is signed and dated by the artist on the back cover. Very rare.

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15 Sep

Posted at 00:07h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
6.4 x 7.7cm, 4pp (single folded sheet) with a painting by Gary Hincks of a sky full of white trails on the front. Inside Finlay has a two line poem

Season of mists and milling Messerschmitts,
Close bosom-friend of the repeating gun.

The smoke trails are not solid but dotted lines - much as a trail of bullets can be seen in comic depictions of machine gun fire. VG+.

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09 Sep

Posted at 23:24h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
9.9 x 8.6cm, 4pp card with two concrete poems on the inner folds on the left is an English translation of Guillaume Apollinaire's calligramme Miroir (Imagine angels not as reflections are in this mirror I am enclosed alive and real as you) the words are broken up and in a circle to indicate a mirror and Apollonaire's name is in the middle.
On the right a version of the same work is found but with important changes (Imagine mariners and not as reflections are in this mirror I am enclosed afloat and real as you). The circle in the second work becomes an ocean with the change to mariners instead of angels and the name afloat in the centre is that of the poet/conceptual/land artist Ian Stephen, a friend of Finlay's. VG+.

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