20 Feb JOSEPH BEUYS ZEICHNUNGEN. 1980. SIGNED BY BEUYS.
Berlin: Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1980
10 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for an exhibition of Beuys' drawings. This card has been signed by Beuys in pencil. VG+.
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Berlin: Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1980
10 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for an exhibition of Beuys' drawings. This card has been signed by Beuys in pencil. VG+.
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Munchen:Schellmann & Kluser, 1980
15 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card for the title book discussing Beuys' Raum mit Doppelobjekten. Front of the card has a reprodcued double image of Beuys, verso publisher's details. VG+.
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Vaduz: Grafos Verlag AG, n.d. (1980)
30 x 21cm, 1pp announcement leaflet for an etching by Beuys with a colour image of the work and details of the publication (in English) . This example is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys . Folded for mailed but else VG+.
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Munchen: Galerie Schellmann & Kluster, 1980
15 x21cm, 1pp reed on white card typographic announcement card for an exhibition of new sculptures and the reinstallation of the work "Zeige deine wunde" (Show your wound) in the gallery that had previously been shown in the same space by Beuys in 1976. VG+.
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(NYC): Cooper Union, n.d. (1980).
12.5 x 8cm, 1pp. Announcement card with a detail of The Pack in b/w overprinted in red. VG+.
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Paris: Cheval d'attaque, 1979
22 x 16cm, 108pp plus pictorial card covers. An artist's book of sorts (although published on the occasion of the exhibition in la Maison de la Culture de Chalon-sur-Saone so may also be seen as an exhibition catalogue) in that five previously published works are reprinted in chronological order after a short interview between Irmeline Lebeer and Boltanski.
The reproduced works are Recherche et presentation de tout ce qui reste de mon enfance, Tout ce que je sais d'une femme...
Chalon Sur Saône: Maison De La Culture De Chalon Sur Saône, 1979 32,5 x 44,5cm, b/w offset lithographic exhibition poster for the Boltanski exhibition. The image is one of the artist's shadow play works showing a jumping rabbit. VG+.
...Milano: Plura Edizioni, 1979 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card with a colour image of a Beuys editioned poster on the front and verso minimal gallery details. VG+. ...
Firenze: Galleria De Amicis, n.d. (1979)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic design for a solo show. VG+.
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Gelsenkirchen - Buer: FIU (Free International University); Städtische Museum, 1979 14.5 x 20.3cm, 2pp announcement card for the ‘working conference’ of the Free International University (30.11 - 07.12.1979). Silkscreened card on ‘silver’ coated paper. Tangentially related to Beuys' the image is reminiscent of Warhol's disaster series although there is no knowledge as to who designed the card. Some colour smudging on back due to over ‘inking’ of the silkscreen. VG+. ...
Dusseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1979
10 x 21cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card printed black on gold for a Beuys' installation. This example is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys on the front. Verso a list of artists shown in the museum. VG.
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Dunsyre, Lanark: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1979)
10 x 5.2cm, 18pp (printed on one side only) accordion fold. The artist's book has the text: "Typography which used to flow like rivers" - but all but the last two words are sent vertically rather than horizontally. A comment on experimental typography which infers disapproval although how a visual/concrete poets could take that view is hard to accept. The vertical section might be compared to waterfalls after all. VG+.
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