Zurich: Museum der Stadtentwasserung, 1994 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show which included Boltanksi, Fischli & Weiss, Gette, Gilbert & George, Holler, Haacke, Kaprow, Kelly, Muhl, Richter, Spero, Slominski, and others. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
8.7 x 6.3cm, 4pp card printed blue on white. Internal to the card is a shaped text that resembles a rounded tree - much like the post-impressionist work of Emile Bernard to which this is noted to be an homage. The text reads: "linen coif in the shape of a cloud l'ecole de Pont-Aven Hommage a Emile Bernard." A coif is a hat (usually a woman's) and often found in the post-impressionist paintings of nuns (especially in Gaugan) and in Bernard's paintings of Breton women - the word shapes resemble such a garment. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
7 x 14cm, 4pp (gatefold) the works is a text:
SOCIETY IS THE CURE FOR PRIDE, AND SOLITUDE FOR VANITY
which is a quotation by H. de Schelles (Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles who was a member of the Committee for Public Safety and an active Dantonist).
Finlay proposes the work for a bench to sit between a grove of pine trees and a lake. The bench is meant to be a secluded place for active thought. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
29.6 x 21cm, blue on white offset lithograph with a reworking of the universal A - Z alphabet - but the letters are all (except Q) replaced by boat port registration letter codes. VG+.
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Barcelona:Fundacio Espai Poblemou, 1994
56 x76.5cm, full colour lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of a Boltanski Dispersion installation where piles of second hand clothes are left in the building and visitors are welcome to take them away. VG+.
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Barcelona: Fundació Espai Poblenou, 1994
21 x 15cm, 90pp plus typographic wrappers. An artist's book containing a list of calls made to the Barcelona police from 7 to 13 April 1994 organised by time and date and including the reason for the call (including deaths to someone reporting that snow is falling in a district). A number of the "daily reports" are translated into English at the back of the book. VG+.
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NYC: Nolan/Eckman Gallery, 1994
10.7 x 13.5cm, 28pp plus card covers, a red dust jacket and a tipped on title label. This book is subtitled "six Inscribed Fragments Concerning the French Revolution 1789 -- 1805. Six b/w photographs (by Antonia Reeve) of stone reliefs by Finlay are tipped on opposite a commentary by Siegfried Blasche and different quotations from Michelet . The commentaries can be seen as an adjunct to the works as they are not explained. Still an interesting book that is arguably an artists book as well as exhibition catalogue. On consideration we regard it as one of the latter.
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Amsterdam: Art Unlimited, 1994 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard - here a field of yellow chicks on the front in colour which according to the card is a work "Untitled" by Byars however this seems unlikely and is probably a parody/joke. Included here as a curiosity - any information on this card would be gratefully received. VG+....
London: London Weekend TV, 1994
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Promotional card for the TV show presented by Melvyn Bragg looking at the work of Boltanski - on the front is a reproduction of Le Blaguer - a coloured photowork with an image of the performing artist in his suit. VG. Scarce.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
15.5 x 9.1cm, 2pp card with a drawing by Gary Hincks of Saint Sebastian "martyred by liberals making "points".
One of Finlay's many pointed (like arrows) small publications aimed at his enemies both real and imagined. This example is hand addressed by Finlay to his friend and collaborator Janet Boulton. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
5cm, dia. printed plastic with metal safety pin clasp. A lapel badge with the title text on it in white on red (the colour of blood). Issued in the year of the European elections the slogan alludes to Saint-Just's "Fewer laws, more examples" but here the over emphasis on "too many" rather and "fewer" refelcts Finlay's own experiences with Scottish local governmental restrictions. Limitation not known. VG+>
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Essen: Werner J. Hannappel, 1994
17.8 x 24cm, b/w high gloss photograph of Finlay sitting in his conservatory. Taken for an exhibition in Hamburg - Works: Pure and Political, 1995. Probably a print sent to newspapers for use in publicity. Several labels on back for photographer and exhibition venue.
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