27 Aug

Posted at 22:11h in James Lee Byars

Antwerpen: ASPC, 1993
1.8cm, golden paper circle with the text BYARSISDEAD in black ink in a very small typeface in the centre. Unlimited edition but now very scarce. VG+.

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18 Aug

Posted at 15:58h in James Lee Byars

Bern: Edition Galerie Rigassi, 1993 21 x 30cm, opens out to 84 x 60cm, printed gold on black offset - exhibition catalogue listing the texts from a number of large handwritten letters by Byars. VG+. ...

08 Aug

Posted at 21:14h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
17.4 x 9.9cm, 2pp card with a vertical text - "LARK with your tiny scissors you shred a huge bale of BLUE" - a concrete poem which is also reflected in the predominantly light blue colour of the card. VG+.

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01 Aug

Posted at 21:11h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
17.4 x 9.9cm, 2pp card with a vertical text - "CLOUDS your incredible capitals crown the tall grey columns of AIN" - a concrete poem which is also reflected in the predominantly grey colour of the card. VG+.

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27 Jul

Posted at 15:13h in Prints + Posters

n.p.: n.p., n.d. (1993)
60 x 82cm, light blue on white silkscreen. The image of a sundial is joined with text in Greek and English - Saint-Just's most famous dictum "too many laws, too few examples". Like many quotations the meaning out of context can be changed - Saint-Just was referring to deaths in the terror, but a modern take might be that we need better people or better behaviour (Virtue perhaps)? A sundial is a good example - once placed and checked for accuracy, its behaviour is true and unvaried. it is a good example.
One of 300 signed and numbered examples (the signature is in pencil, the numbering in ink.

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25 Jul

Posted at 16:31h in James Lee Byars

A undistributed proof from the unreleased publication of the same name (planned by Edition Cantz). 33 x 33 cm, 2pp silk-screen print (chamois/white) on white double sided astrolux (high gloss) 290 micron card stock. The text is intense and in German and English recto/verso:"THE SUN THE MOON THE STARS...

21 Jul

Posted at 09:52h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Milan: Galleria del Credito Valtellinese, 1993 10.5 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with one b/w image of the artist during the title performance in Milan in 1981. Posthumous card. VG+....

14 Jul

Posted at 09:11h in Jonathan Monk

Glasgow: s.p. (Monk), 1993
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist postcard and one of Monk's earliest works where the artist portrayed himself in makeup similar to that worn by the rock band Kiss. Verso minimal details including the artist's then address. VG+....

09 Jul

Posted at 14:44h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1993) 21 x 8cm, 4pp proposal by Finlay for a sculptural work to be built in Willam Shenstone's The Leasowes in the form of an artist card.
The internal drawing by Annet Stirling is of the proposed stone obelisk which bears a text "From this spot may be seen the works of Walter Somer's forgemasters inadvertent manufacturers of parts for the Iraqi super-gun. Citius elephantem subala celes - sooner could you hide an elephant under your armpit".

This is unusually a political work by Finlay - Sadam Hussain had attempted to build several super gun under the title of Project Babylon. The first gun had a bore of 350 mm (13.8 inches), and a barrel length of 46 metres (151 feet). Finlay wanted the work to be build in the grounds of the house near Halesowen. VG+. ...

02 Jul

Posted at 21:03h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
15 x 10cm, 2pp card with a photograph by Ralph Irving of close up of strawberry plants with a stick noting "Fete des fraises" in a net to stop birds eating the fruit.
Strawberry was the name (Fraise) of 11 Prairial (30 May). A celebration of the greatest of fruits. VG+.

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