04 Oct

Posted at 16:01h in RECORDS

Paris: Association Francaise d'Action Artistique, 1985
26.5 x 16.5cm, 12 inch LP (33rpm) in gatefold sleeve. The auditory documentation of an exhibition curated by Michel Nuridsany which included work by Bertrand, Buren, Lavier and Sarkis as well as Boltanski. The record has "Reconstitution De Chansons Qui Ont Été Chantées A Christian Boltanski Entre 1944 Et 1946" (3 minutes 48 seconds). There is a b/w image of the artist from one of his performances.
There is also a 26 x 26cm, 12pp insert with two pages given over to each artist (the text on Boltanski is accompanied by a colour image from the Les Ombres. Both VG+. Very scarce.

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01 Oct

Posted at 08:32h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Maeght, 1985
37 x 27cm, 44 loose signatures in silkscreen outer folder on card. A single number of this artist's journal with original contributions by Kaminski, Mirsky, Réda, Barthelemy, Alberti, Holder, Léger, Gilbert and George, Macé, Mariscal and Cueff.
Boltanski also contributes a 4pp page work - a last day of school photograph of young children of which three faces are enlarged and placed within a drawn structure somewhat like a frame which infers each as a monument.
This is one of only 120 examples printed on velin which is signed and numbed by all of the artists (including Boltanski) on a colophon sheet. VG+. Scarce.

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20 Sep

Posted at 17:15h in Artist's Books

Firenze: Exempla/Exit Lugo 1985
8.9 x 31.7cm, 28pp (printed recto only) and printed white wrappers with printed dustjacket.
Artist's book with 8 colour typographic works by Finlay and Ron Costley. The texts are word combinations such as SEAPINK or STRAWBERRYCAMOUFLAGE- which have multiple meanings in part because of the lack of any spaces between the words. The works reproduced here were all released as much larger edition prints by the Wild Hawthorn Press but this book was an edition with Maurizio Nannuci in Italy himself a well known concrete and experimental poet (and artist). This is one of the deluxe copies - 150 signed and numbered by Finlay by hand in greem ink. VG+.

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01 Sep

Posted at 11:36h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Dortmund: Das Museum am Ostwell, 1985 16.2 x 10.4cm, 2pp black on white announcement card for an exhibition of objects and multiples from the Feelisch Collection. A portrait of Beuys on the front is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys and rubber stamped in blue with a free International University impression. On the reverse a short text in German about the show and thee editions. VG+. ...

27 Aug

Posted at 22:55h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1985
48.5 x 32.5cm, green on cream paper offset lithograph with two drawings by Hincks one above each other. The first is after a landscape Johan Christian Reinhart etched in Rome in 1811. The second is with Finlay's addition of the word "W AVE" on the stone opening for the spring. In the Reinhart original the word in Greek `"XAIPE " means Hail or Farewell and Finlay notes that as being in relation to death. The AVE part of Finlay's text is the Latin equivalent to XAIPE but with the addition of the W (a little distance from the rest of the lettering) then the meaning is altered to that of water.
This was one of only 250 such prints made. In VG condition in like folder.

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19 Aug

Posted at 14:47h in Exhibition Catalogues

Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1985)
30 x 21cm, 160pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for an Australian travelling exhibition of British art. Finlay has 4pp of text and works as well as one of his sundials as frontispiece. VG+.

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12 Aug

Posted at 21:24h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1985
25 x 29cm, black on green folder lithograph in folder content of two lithographs after drawings by Michael Harvey of the proposed stone gateway and a textual explanation thus: 'Implicit in the column is the natural tree, which was likewise inhabited by its nymph or dryad. Here, in place of the column, there is the pilaster, and the dryads are present in the 'distanced' form of the text derived from J.K.Lavater's 'Physiognomical Fragments' (1802). The design is based on that for a garden gateway by the Elizabethan architect Indigo Jones."

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25 Jul

Posted at 16:19h in James Lee Byars

Paris: Gallimard, 1925/1985
23.5 x 18.5cm, 84pp. Original wrappers. The first edition of this collection of texts by the poet issued in an edition of 850 copies by Byars’ favourite publisher. An uncut copy but pages are browned. One the first page Byars has appropriated the book by adding the text “I GIVE YOU GENIUS AGAIN!” in red ink in his starry hand. VG. Unique thus.
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