24 Feb

Posted at 16:17h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Berlin: Berliner Kunstlerprogramme des DAAD fur das Heimatmsuem Berlin- Mitte, 1991
16.7 x 12cm, 32pp (self cover). Museum exhibition catalogue for the major project where Botlanski and a team discovered all that they could find about a "missing house" ie a house that was demolished by bombs in the second world war. The project was meant to be temporary but after the closing of the international exhibition that it was created for, the enthusiasm of the local population led Boltanski to leave the work in situ although part of the original exhibition in the museum had to be taken down.
The house at Grosse Hamberger Strasse 15/16 was also the subject of the ornate and complex artist's book La Maison Manquante 1992 (one of the most difficult to find books by the artist).
This brochure was written for visitors to the space and details the story of the occupants (including found photographs and documents) in an open and accessible manner. This example is in VG+ condition although an adhesive barcode is found on the inside back cover.

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14 Feb

Posted at 21:11h in Exhibition Catalogues

London: ICA, 1992
14.5 x 15.5cm, 28pp plus card covers and printed light brown dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue of ten large bronze sculptures most of which relate to Finlay's interest in the French revolution. Ten duotone images are tipped onto pages. The exhibition then went to Yorkshire. VG+. Minimal text.Endpapers have a short musical phrase which (I think) is from La Marseillaise.
JOINTLY INSERTED (AS ISSUED):
14 x 14cm, 8p accordion fold insert with a commentary in English by Stephen Bann. VG>

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14 Feb

Posted at 19:41h in Invitation Cards

London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 1992 22 x 15cm, 4pp , triangular shaped announcement card fpr an exhibition of small maquettes for sculptures. These small works are delights and one - Pyramid Beautiful Fanatical - is reproduced on the front (the card shape having been chosen to reflect the shape. The work probably references either Saint Just or Robespierre. VG+. ...

14 Feb

Posted at 18:02h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
21.0 x 8cm, 2pp. A valentine's day card with several images of a flower with the petals slowly being lost until the last has gone leaving only the stalk. Much like a lover may decline a traditional question associated with valentine's day the words he loves her/he loves her not are repeated in turn until the petals have all gone. A final flower here with all the petals unplucked however rescues the day and the card announces "he loves her".
There was a companion card that reverses the gender of the words also released by Finlay at the same time. The drawing was by Gary Hincks. VG+

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11 Jan

Posted at 15:00h in James Lee Byars

NYC: Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, 1992 15 x 21cm, 1pp typographic design announcement card for a show by Byars alongside Ulay's Long Playing Record. A mailed example with typed address and postal franking on back but still VG+. ...

10 Jan

Posted at 17:36h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992 14.7 x 10.4cm, 14pp concertina artist's card with five different finials (the small sculpture on top of a pillar), the first four of which are traditional (Ball, Vanburgh Ball, Acorn, Pineapple) and the final one is denoted as a Pineapple Grenade Finial (based on the throwing weapon). Drawings by Andrew Townsend. VG+. ...

21 Dec

Posted at 19:00h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
10.5 x 7.2cm, 12pp plus wrappers and printed dust jacket. Four "proverbs" by Finlay are illustrated with drawings by Kathleen Lindsley.

"The poor fisherman counts his diamonds" for instance depends on the drawing to explain the diamonds is a metaphor for silver-backed fish.
Very good condition apart from some minor rust on staples. Murrsay has this as 1992 but the book has 1991.

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21 Dec

Posted at 08:45h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
21 x 15cm, 36pp with card covers and printed dust jacket. Image by Gary Hincks. The annual Christmas book publication by Finlay is here a collection illustrated short poems (most two-liners and most rhyming).

COUPLET
Doodlebug, doodlebug, where have you been?
- I've been to London to visit the Queen."
has a drawing of a V1 rocket bomb used during the blitz which was often called a "Doodlebug".

The staples are a little rusty else VG+.

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18 Dec

Posted at 13:14h in Proposals

Edinburgh, Scotland: Morning Star Publications, 1991
18 x 25.5cm printed publisher's envelope content of a 24 x 16.5cm, 4pp (top folding) folded card with a silkscreen image in green and black on beige with the poem:

pool
fall

pool
fall

pool
fall

rill

over an image of green ferns. A concrete poem which is denoted as a "proposal" by the Press and we have placed it in that category.
This is one of 250 signed and numbered copies from the collaborating artist Solveig Hill. VG+.

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15 Dec

Posted at 18:03h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
9.9 x 8.2cm, 4pp. A painting which may well be a potato print beloved of young childen shows a blue and red pattern which could be seen as a paper crown worn at a Xmas dinner. Internal to the card Finlay notes:

Shepherds - Bath Towels
Angels - Sheets
and below "(Instructions for a school play)".

The painting therefore can be read as also displaying the bath towels (with patterns) for use to make costumes for a school nativity play. Angels all in white obviously need sheets that do not have patterns. Perhaps Finlay is displaying his identification more with the shepherds (a job after all that he did as a young man).
This example has a hand written note on the back cover "Happy Christmas from Ian" in thick red felt tipped pen and is joint with the origina plain white envelope that also has writing by Finlay; "Edward". Both VG+

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