29 Apr

Posted at 09:36h in Miscellany

Docking: Coracle, n.d. (1992)
14.5 x 10.5cm, 8pp plus stiff burgundy printed wrappers. A visual poem written by Simon Cutts in praise (and a little critical en passant) of his friend Ian Hamilton Finlay. Inside the book (which looks like a passport) there are 3 pages - the first is I and has a black rectangle of card pasted to the page, the next page has the H and has empty spaces where similar rectangles might be pasted and the final page F has a black card shaped like a guillotine blade.
Not only referencing Finlay's interest in the French revolution - but also a slight hint at the poet's somewhat irascible nature (which moderated in his old age - by the time I met him he was a pussycat) in the darkness of the shapes and the sharpness of the final "blade". A rather nice little work in homage to the man. VG+.

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02 Apr

Posted at 18:58h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
11.6 x 7cm, 20pp plus card wrappers and printed dust jacket. Six drawings by Angela Lemaire are conjoined with Finlay's pithy proverbs.

"The wind is invisible/but we can see which way the trees blow"


This is one of 250 unsigned copies. VG+ but staples are rusty.

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24 Mar

Posted at 21:32h in OBJECT MULTIPLES

London: Serpentine Gallery, 1992 Three different artist's postcards (10.5 x 15cm, 2pp) each with a pair of images that Boltanski found in copies of the Nazi SIGNAL magazine. He pairs up images of cultural life (a ballet dancer, a model) and nature (a bee) alongside images of soldiers and weapons. This relates to other work where images of victims and murderers are mixed together where no-one can tell which is which. The normalcy of daily life could be found in Nazi Germany as much as less guilty societies (and one should remember Boltanski's jewish heritage).
Take Me (I'm Yours) was the first of a number of such exhibitions which Boltanski had a hand in initiating alongside Hans Ulrich Obrist. Members of the public could take the artworks away. However these cards were only found in the deluxe catalogue for the show.
Each of these cards are signed in pencil by Boltanski on the back.

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21 Mar

Posted at 18:52h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
13.5 x 9.2cm, 4pp plus end papers and blue laid paper wrappers. The poem is as follows:

THE HAPPY CATASTROPHE
Be





falls.

and the explanation on the left "The happy catastrophe" - Friedrich Schlegel's characterisation of the French Revolution.
The word befalls is split as if part has dropped off or down but also is a physical reminder of a head falling from a body or the guillotine blade dropping down from above.
Slight former diagonal crease on cover but else VG.

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20 Mar

Posted at 09:51h in James Lee Byars

Stockholm: Konsthalle, 1992 21 x 15cm, 40pp original black glossy wrappers. Monograph and exhibition catalogue with six full colour images of sculptures. VG. ...

19 Mar

Posted at 22:01h in James Lee Byars

Tillhet-Pretnare, Jeanne TYPED LETTER TO MONSIEUR AND MADAME ERIC GERMAIN. Signed and dated 17 Mars 1992 30 x 21cm, 2pp - a legal opinion about Byars use of the Gallimard cover style written to two of Byars’ patrons in France. Antoine Gallimard had taken offence and tried to protect his copyright on the design. The letter warns of possible legal action and the impossibility of defending the publication if another was produced....

14 Mar

Posted at 15:36h in James Lee Byars

NYC: Mary Boone, 1992
15.5 x 21cm, 4pp. Announcement card for a solo show by Byars including the large title installation of marble spheres on a large stone field. Inside gallery details. This example has some red ink and a rubber stamp impression inside "Artist's File" else VG+.

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13 Mar

Posted at 19:25h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992 3.1 x 31.3cm, 4pp folded card sheet with a text:

DROPPING ZONE OF THE ROSE PETALS
in pink and
RECOLLECTION
in grey.
The colours reflect the petals first dropping, then the faded memory of their fall (the petals themselves also having lost their colour as they rot). VG+. ...

11 Mar

Posted at 19:18h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1995) 23 x 16.1cm, printed envelope content of two cards - one with a text printed black on cream from R.R. Palmer's "Twelve Who Ruled" regarding Saint-Just's way to the guillotine:

Saint-Just stood up in the first cart, head held high, his neck bare, a carnation in his buttonhole, his eyes cooly surveying the crowds that lined the street. The old Saint-Just was restored who said, 'I despise the dust that forms me and speaks to you.'"

The other card is unprinted and blood red.

Both cards have been cut on the diagonal to create guillotine blade shapes.
Finlay's admiration for the purity and lack of compromise of Saint-Just ir reflected in many of his works. This is another. VG+ in like envelope....

09 Mar

Posted at 20:50h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. 14.5 x 12cm, 4pp artist's card with two poems -

Everything Falls Downwards
gravity

and

Everything Falls Onwards
history

VG+. ...

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