20 Jun

Posted at 23:11h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
15.3 x 10.6cm, 16pp plus card wrappers and red dust jacket. Four poetic works all relating to the French revolution. The first is

July 28, 1794
Refreshment for the wild flowers
which is a direct reference to the deaths of the members of the Committee of Public Safety who were the effective dictators of the Terror. The wild flowers being fed blood and bodies.

A Riddle
To those who watch, a waterfall; to its victim, a glacier.
The truth of the relativity of the observer when facing the guillotine.

One of only 250 copies. VG+.

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20 Jun

Posted at 23:01h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
13.5 x 13cm, 12pp plus silkscreen blue card covers. Drawings by Grahame Jones. The poems in French are all based on those by Verlaine and Denis. The first is
After Verlaine>

Les violons
De l'automne

(Les triangles
Du Printemps..)

One ofFinlay's most lovely of books. VG+.

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12 Jun

Posted at 15:42h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Paris: Carte Segrete Editeur, 1989
27 x 21cm, 134pp plus printed blue card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a conceptual group show (which doesn't have a physical gallery to exhibit in) which includes documenation of early work from 1972 onwards from Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Andres Cadere, Annette Messager, Sarkis and others.
Boltanski's section includes images of work not shown elsewhere including Ombres - an installation in windows where shadows of interesting events could be seen from outside and French WIndow - a similar work elsewhere.
VG+ - very scarce.

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31 May

Posted at 20:18h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Warszawa: Galeria Foksal, 1989
21 x 15cm, 4pp. Exhibition catalogue with two colour images of the installation - second hand clothes left on the floor in the gallery spaces - a format used by the artist in a number of different venues. VG+.

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25 May

Posted at 15:09h in EPHEMERA

Geneve: Galerie Marika Malacorda, 1989
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp - typographic announcement card for a solo show, verso gallery details. A mailed example with hand written address but else VG+.

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04 May

Posted at 11:03h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Barcelona: Galeria Alfonso ALcolea, n.d. (1989) 15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement for a posthumous show - the front of the card shows Beuys' poster/design for Dillinger the video work he made with Klaus Staeck. Verso gallery details. VG+. ...

27 Apr

Posted at 17:47h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.
38 x 45cm, black and cream on white laid paper - the image by Gary Hincks is of a grove of trees around a classical temple after WIlliam Stukely. The definition of Grove is "an irregular peristyle" and a quote from Milton. The pristyle is the corridor between a colonnade and the wall of the inner building - hence the definition here suggests the trees are creating a further group of columns around the building. We do not know the date of this work - wee suspect the late 80s. VG+.

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23 Apr

Posted at 16:11h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1989)
33.5 x 48.5cm, printed folder with calligraphic text by John Nash. Content of seven 33.5 x 48.5cm, 1pp lithographs in folder. Each work is one of Finlay's later "definitions" works - the structure being that of a word such as GROVE followed by a poetic definition and then a longer quotation from a classical source using the word in a manner that reflects the definition. For instance:

PEACE n. according to St. Ignatius of Loyola the simplicity of order

War on the castles, PEACE to the cabins
Slogan of the French revolutionary armies.

All elements fine in like folder.

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22 Apr

Posted at 11:12h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
13 x 9.1cm, 4pp light brown outer folder. Internally a 13 x 9.1cm, 4pp sheet with a poem

Sundial
The motto is silent.
The shadow speaks.

The poem emphasises that the true importance on a sundial is the shadow of the gnomon and not the carvings added to it as decoration. The drawing on the cover was by Kathleen Lindsley.
This was one of a series of "poems in folders". VG+.

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20 Apr

Posted at 18:03h in Object + Paper Multiples

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
12 x 24cm, unprinted white envelope with sticker closure content of eight different adhesive stickers - sizes vary due to poor cutting post printing but all are c. 14 x 11.5cm, printed red and black. The stickers are all inspired by sayings or events of the French revolution around the year 1793. These were distributed as campaign materials for use by supporters of Finlay during his disputes with Strathclyde regional Council over the rating of Finlay's Garden Temple (which they claimed was an art gallery whereas Finlay stated it was a religious building". All unused, The sealed envelope has been opened using scissors and not too neatly. Not found in Murray.

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12 Apr

Posted at 18:32h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Denville: Artforum (Volume XXVII No. 8), April 1989 26.8 x 26.8cm, unpaginated (c. 300pp) plus wrappers. A single number of the long running art journal which has an original page work by Boltanski (joint with Annnette Messager) on pages 126 - 129. Two b/w images of children with stuffed toys (chosen by Boltanski) are reflected in two colour images by Messager which use later examples of the toys to create new photographs. This is a very unusual joint work by the lovers. VG+.
Reference: Flay Catalogue Page 182.

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