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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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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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+. ...
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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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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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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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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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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Rivoli: Castello di Rivoli, 1989 10.5 x 15cm, closed printed envelope - black on gold paper. The announcement for a solo show by Byars - the envelope has inside three small plastic balls that can only be found by felling through the paper. An invite in the form of an object multiple. Slight wear to the outside of the envelope due to the plastic balls creating a stress on the paper else VG+ (and unopened). Scarce. ...
NYC: Mary Boone Gallery, 1989 21 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card on mirrored gold card. Fine. ...
Torino: Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 1989 30 x 21cm, 4pp. Museum hand out with 4 works in b/w and text in German. Torn top right else VG. ...
Rome: Cleto Polcina, 1989 26 x 24 cm folder which opens out to cross and gold inside cover. Inside, a red wrapper contains six loose folded sheets, varying from of four to eight pages, showing various works, a biography and a text 'Gold is only the beginning of art: the art of painting' by Achille Bonito Oliva. Fine....