paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

22 Apr IMPENDING NAVIGATION BRIGHT. A CATCH OF POEMS ABOUT THE SHIPPING FORECAST. 1994. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES.

Posted at 09:07h in Page Works & Contributions

Edinburgh: Morning Star Press, 1994 21 x 15cm, gatefold outer orange folder content of a 18 x 12cm, 10pp (single folded sheet) with page contributions by Finlay, Gael Turnbull, Tessa Ransford, George MacKay Brown, Ian Stephen, Edwin Morgan, Peter Larkin, Richard Price, Peter Dent and a cover illustrated by Margot Sandeman with text by Bridget Penney. The shipping forecast is a nightly and morning broadcast on the BBC which tells the weather for shipping in the various seas around Great Britain but it has iconic status as many peopel who are not fishermen listen to it because the names of the various weather stations are somewhat poetic in themselves. Finaly here contributes a short work:<BR?
LATE NIGHT SHIPPING FORECAST

A shoal
of names
in nets
of rain

Where the weather station names are compared to a fishing catch held together by a net of rain.
The Morning Star Press was the publishing house of Alex Finlay son of Ian. One of 100 hand numbereed copies. Scarce. VG+. ...

10 Apr WILD ROSES/ROVE. 1994.

Posted at 10:39h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994) 13.0 x 6.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a poem on the front:

wild roses

roses
roses

roses
rove

roses
reefed

Finlay explains that Rove here is a nautical term meaning led through and fastened (as in the case of a rope) and Reefed means to be shortened, taken in. The flowers are bunched and made into a bouquet in this visual poem. VG+. ...

09 Apr NOTICE DANGER. 1994.

Posted at 15:03h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
15.3 x 14cm, 4pp card which has internally a poem for SImon Cutts

DANGER
CORACLE
DOCKING

Cutts' publishing house was called Coracle (the name of a small one-person wood, canvas and pitch boat that is notoriously hard to steer and dock) and the back of the card notes "For Mr S. Cutts in acknowledgement of his recognitions". VG+.

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07 Apr 3 SAILBOATS. 1994.

Posted at 09:58h in Invitation Cards

London: Victoria Miro Gallery, n.d. (1994)
14 x 12.2cm, 4pp announcement card with a drawing of a boat on the front (by Gary Hincks?). Pia SImig is credited as a collaborator in this card - it is not clear what the work entailed. VG+. ...

04 Apr CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. FROM ALLOR SI MOSSE. E IO TENNI DIETRO. 1994.

Posted at 19:40h in POSTERS

Napoli: Lucio Amelio, 1994
70 x 49.8cm, b/w lithographic offset poster with an image of a Boltanski wire sculpture. The artist's contribution to a group show created as an unlimited edition. VG+.Scarce.

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29 Mar HERACLITIAN VARIATIONS. 1994.

Posted at 20:23h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
18.9 x 29.8cm, red and black on cream offset lithograph. The text "YOU CANNOT STEP INTO THE SAME RIVER/REVOLUTION TWICE" allows two readings of the statement - first the famous Hereclitian statement comparing the flow of a river that isnever is the same with any point in history . And then FInlay's bold assertion here that that is also true of all revolutions. . VG+.

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27 Mar CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1994.

Posted at 14:37h in MONOGRAPHS

Paris: Flammarion, 1994
27 x 26cm, 192pp plus boards and colour pictorial dust jacket. First edition of this extensive monograph with over 200 illustrations of which 50 are in colour. Essays and interview by Lynn Gumpert. VG+.

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23 Mar MY RECORD COLLECTION. 1994. ARTIST’S SECOND EVER solo EXHIBITION.

Posted at 15:54h in Jonathan Monk

Glasgow: s.p. (monk), 1994
21 x 15cm,1pp announcement card with a drawing by Monk (of him holding a record and surrounded by texts) for this the artist's second ever public exhibition. VG+. Rare.

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20 Mar UNTITLED (4 * 5 = 20!). c. 1994. UNIQUE WORK ON THIN VENEER.

Posted at 21:56h in James Lee Byars

Six different 24x14 cm thin sheets of wood veneer with the formula 4 * 5 = 20! in Byars’ starry writing using red ink. A unique work - mounted in a glass and wooden frame. Please note: this work is found reproduced on some other dealer's websites despite the fact we have owned it for over 12 years, exhibited it publicly and have asked them to take it down!...

19 Mar FIVE POINTS MAKE A MAN, THE MOONS AND CONSTELLATIONS. 1994.

Posted at 21:14h in James Lee Byars

NYC: Galerie Michael Werner,1994 15 x 10.5cm, 4pp (single sheet of white paper folded). One work (drawing on card) reproduced internally. Fine....

13 Mar CARVEL/CLINKER BUILT. 1994.

Posted at 23:02h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994)
10.5 x 4.1cm, 2pp. Artist's card in the form of a bookmark where on one side a list of trees which are supposedly "clinker built" where in boats the edges of hull planks overlap each other are found on one side and on the other the list of trees are supposedly "carvel built" where in boats the edges of hull planks are laid edge to edge often with an underlying structure. Finlay finding visual correspondences between the construction methods of the dead tree parts (planks) and the look of the living trees. VG+.

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12 Mar PROPOSAL FOR A TEMPLE OF APOLLO/SAINT JUST. 1994.

Posted at 20:09h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
10.8 x 10.4cm, 16pp plus patterned boards. The proposal here takes the form of a photograph of the site with a pull back tipped on flap that shows the landscape without the lake side temple and when pulled aside one can see the proposed building. Saint-Just was termed the "Angel of Death" by his opponents during the Terror because he was often the delegate who announced the name of those to be arrested (and often killed) at the National Assembly. Apollo is the Greek god of amongst other things justice. Both might be regarded as being capable of severe judgement. Photomontage by Peter Rogan.
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