25 Nov

Posted at 20:41h in Proposals

Martock: Parrett Press, 1984 21 x 14.5cm, 16pp plus card covers. String bound. A proposal by Finlay for the artistic improvement of an olive grove at the Villa Celle in Italy. The work, also known as "The Celle Proposal," was created in collaboration with Nicholas Sloan who created the 4 woodcuts and the map of the land and was published by the latter's small press. The proposal includes a brass plough with a text: "The day is old by noon", a bronze tree plaque on an olive tree with "Il flaute d'argento/La scorza rozza" and "La Scorza d'argento/Il flauto rozzo", a wmall circular temple with an inscription "L'ombra medita sulla" and a sculpture in broze of a basket of lemons with "Silence after chatter' and "The astringent is sweet". There is also a small "concise" dictionary at the back of the book with various definition works. This is a very rare book with only 20 copies being printed. There are slight closed tears on the oversize wrappers but over all this is VG+. A delight. ...

14 Nov

Posted at 15:11h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Bonn: Stadtisches Kunstmuseum, 1984
10 x 21cm, 6pp announcement leaflet with a b/w image of Beuys installing Das Ende des 20 Jahrhunderts (1983) in b/w on the front. Internally details of the Beuys show along with two other exhibitions by Oskar Schlemmer and Jans-Peter Adamski. One b/w image of a painting from the museum's permanent collection also. This example is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys over the image. VG+.

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13 Oct

Posted at 12:43h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Dusseldorf: Kusthalle, 1984 30 x 21cm, 2pp announcement leaflet for a large group show intended to place contemporary German art in its contest. The show which included Beuys, Polke, Richter, Uecker, Baselitz, {enck, Lupertz, Mack, Prem, Fischer and others. The work Infiltration homogen for Konzertflogel from 1966 is reproduced in colour (a felt wrapped piano). The leaflet is folded and slightly grubby else VG. ...

08 Oct

Posted at 18:27h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Pescara: Lucrecia De Domizio, 1984
16 x 22cm, announcement card for the title sculpture which was first exhibited at the F.I.A.C. in the Grand Palais. A multiple was issued where a printed blotting paper was to be dipped into olive oil before being placed in a green envelope. This example is signed by Beuys and with a blue FIU rubber stamp impression. VG+.

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07 Oct

Posted at 11:08h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1984
8.8 x 10.2cm , 1pp black and red on white card.
The card has an illustration by Mark Stewart after a painting by Jacques Blanchard of Paris and Oenone. Oenone was Paris' first wife who he dumped for Helen of Troy. The card has a cut-out which creates a small version of a tree plaque in three dimensions. The card refers to five oval plaques having been made each with the names of classical lovers and five rectangular plaques with tree names. They were exhibited in the "English Garden: in Merian Park, Basel". VG+.

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29 Sep

Posted at 08:41h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Dusseldorf: city of Dusseldorf, 1984 9 x 9cm, 1pp adhesive label which was the announcement for the two month long promotion of art in the city of Dusseldorf curated by Kasper König and displaying a huge number of different artists including Beuys. The logo of the show was the title VON HIER AUS in Jospeh Beuys' holograph. This is an unused example with original backing paper and glue extant. Rare. ...

19 Sep

Posted at 20:43h in Unique Works

57 x 10 x 44cm, etched glass on custom made wooden stand. The concrete poem is made up of a number of anagrams of the word "DAZZLE" although the word itself is not found on the etched glass plate. This is an unique sculptural version of a poem first published in 1979 as an artist's book by Finlay. The Dazzle ships were battleships in the second world war where zigzag patterns were painted on the side to help camouflage the outlines of the vessel. By showing all of the mixed up letters but not the original word Finlay is creating a visual poem abstracting the real life boats. We do not know the date of this work - we suspect it is from the 1980s. In VG+ condition,...

07 Sep

Posted at 11:57h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1984
10 x 10.5cm, 1pp artist's card with a drawing of a marble temple in a landscape by Mark Stewart below which Finlay has added a definition work:
TEMPLE, n, a marble edifice, a veined edifice; the sear or summit of reason.
and two quotations from Ovid's Metamorphses and Finlay's own Despatches from the Little Spartan War. In the former quote Philemon and Baucis have their hut turned into a Temple - which Finlay clearly regards as a similar process to his own renaming of a building on the estate as the Garden Temple. The second quote notes how Strathclyde raided the Garden Temple to take away artworks in lieu of what they claimed was unpaid rates. Clearly Finlay saw the second events as sacrilegious. VG+.

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07 Sep

Posted at 11:03h in EPHEMERA

Rotterdam: Galerie 't Venster, 1984
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card printed yellow and black with a shadow play image on the front and verso gallery details. VG+.

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