09 Sep

Posted at 10:26h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
5.4 x 3.9cm, 4pp card with a typographic design the text ~"Fire Coming On Will Discern And Catch Up with all Things" run together and shaped into a lightning strike. The text is a quote from Hereclitus who also wrote "Thunder Bolt Pilots All Things" - a reference to Zeus the most senior of the Gods. The quote is a threat of what will happen to the unjust and the shape a clear hint at its origin.
This is the first of two cards with the same text and the same design but the font is much bolder in this one than in the later card. VG+.

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08 Sep

Posted at 21:23h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
14.5 x 11.5cm, 2pp card with a photograph by Pia Simig of a photocopying machine in b/w. Below the image Finlay has added "COPYING_MACHINE-gun" - the sound of an old fashioned copier when set to repeat is somewhat similar to that of a machine gun shooting bullets quickly and repetitively. VG+.

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06 Sep

Posted at 20:40h in EPHEMERA

Glasgow: Tramway, 1993
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement and invitation card with the image of a lost glove on the front and on the back a blurred photographic portrait of a unknown man (presumably one of the workers made redundant from Boltanski's research for this exhibition and installation. VG+

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31 Aug

Posted at 20:37h in CATALOGUE RAISONNES

Koln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig, 1993
21 x 15cm,72pp plus wrappers. First edition of a catalogue raisonne of works including paintings, sculptures and documents. 119 items described and illustrated in b/w. Texts in German and French. VG+.

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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...

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