paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

25 Sep CERTIFICATE FOR STORAGE MEMORY. 2014.

Posted at 16:15h in LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS

Paris: s.p. (Boltanski), 2014
30 x 21cm, 1pp inkjet output - the certificate (nr 764064263) to Paul Robertson to allow online access to films made by Christian Boltanski. A short lived project of films made by the artist which were accessed online only by those holding the appropriate certificate. Presumably an attempt to use the internet as a new way of distributing art but such ventures often fail because art collector wish to own an object or permanent access to the site. As far as we know the access is no longer available online. VG.
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06 Sep KOMMUNIKATION DURCH WIEDERHOLUNG. 2014.

Posted at 14:33h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Hamburg: Jurgen Becker, 2014 15 x 21cm, announcement card for a posthumous exhibition with one text work in Beuys' facsimile hand on the front (Wer nicht denken will fliegt raus) and verso gallery details. VG+. ...

02 Sep FROM THE YEAR I WAS BORN UNTIL THE YEAR I LEFT AMERICA. 2014. ONE OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES.

Posted at 02:41h in Jonathan Monk

Paris: One Star Press, 2014
26 x 17cm, unpaginated. Printed card covers. First edition of this artist’s book which displays a series of American cents (both front and back) one for each of the titular years. This is one of 250 numbered copies. Fine.
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30 Jun SIGNAL. 2014. ONE OF ONLY 170 SIGNED & NUMBERED DELUXE COPIES.

Posted at 20:36h in DELUXE ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris. Editions Dilecta, 2014
32 x 22 x 5cm, two part heavy cardboard box with printed label content of:

a 17 x 24cm book which contains ten 13 x 18cm, full colour lenticular images tipped onto each page such that one can see two different images when the page is angled towards or away from the viewer.
a 54 x 36cm 4PP full colour artist's broadside folded to 27 x 36cm
a further 13 x 18cm lecticular photograph set into the lid of the box using photocorners
a signed and numbered 21 x 15cm, 1pp colophon sheet.

Deliuxe artist's book based on images found in the Wehrmacht magazine "Signal" that Boltanski bought at flea markets in Paris. Previously issued as a signed and numbered print, Boltanski here matches up images such that a war related photograph has a corresponding "normal" life image (often pretty girls enjoying themselves).
This is one of only 170 numbered and signed copies (with 20 HC copies also retained by the artist and 10 artist's proofs). VG+.

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22 Jun A LENGTH OF CHARCOAL FROM A LENGTH OF THE HEN RUN. 2014. EACH CARD UNIQUE WITH A LINE DRAWN USING THE CHARCOAL.

Posted at 20:48h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2014
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour image of some charcoal taken from the "Hen Run" of the Glasgow School of Art following the fire of 23rd May 2014. On the reverse, there is a mark made by Bellingham using the charcoal which makes each card unique. VG+

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23 May ALL THE POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS OF TWELVE LIGHTS LIGHTING (ONE AT A TIME). 2014. WITH STICKER SHEET.

Posted at 02:06h in Jonathan Monk

Karlesruhe: Meyer Riegger, 2014
21 x 15cm, unpaginated. Original wrappers. Artist's book which displays the same b/w photograph of a Vespa and several blank pages. An additional 21 x 15cm, 1pp sheet of adhesive stickers is also supplied and the owner of the book is instructed to use the stickers (in 12 different colours) to create "your own unique combination of lights" supposedly from the various lights on the scooter. The reference is, of course, Sol Lewitt's systematic work-throughs of combinations of colours in his artist's books but made more physical in a the form of a design classic. VG+.

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21 May THIS COLOUR IN THE PLACE OF ANOTHER. 2014.

Posted at 15:03h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2014
Four sheets each 21 x 15cm, 1pp all printed in black on a flat background colour card - red, yellow, blue and green. the top right corner has been die cut to reveal the colour below. All housed in an original plastic sleeve. Object multiple more than a book - this is one of a number of variations on the theme of "THIS COLOUR IN THE PLACE OF ANOTHER". VG+.

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30 Apr THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME. 2014. UNIQUE ANNOUNCEMENT CARD IN A SERIES.

Posted at 22:54h in Jonathan Monk

Berlin: Haubrok Projects, 2014
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show including Michael Asher, Martin Creed, On Kawara, Andreas Slominski, Ian Wilson and Haegue Yang as well as Monk. Each card was hand-stamped with the title on the front by Monk in black ink - hence each was different from each other. VG+.

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29 Apr TIRAVANIJA GILLICK MONK SEHGAL NANNUCCI GANDER BARRY GRAHAM TORINI ZOBERNIG ROCKENSCHAUB MOCHETTI WEINER SNOW GORDON MULLICAN. 2014. LIMITED EDITION ARTIST POSTER SIGNED BY BOTH MONK & NANNUCCI.

Posted at 20:03h in Jonathan Monk

Firenze: Zona Editions, 2014 84 x 62cm, blue on red artist designed silkscreen poster (by Monk) with the various artists given patterned symbols to create a "code" for each. This is one of 100 limited edition print which was published on a number of different coloured papers (here pink/red). Each is signed in ink by Jonathan Monk and Maurizio Nannucci. VG+. ...

04 Apr THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME. 2014. UNIQUE CARD IN A SERIES. ONE OF 72 SIGNED EXAMPLES.

Posted at 14:13h in Jonathan Monk

Berlin: Haubrok Projects, 2014
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp postcard which is double hand-stamped with the text "the distance between you and me" on the front by Monk in black ink - hence each is different from each other. SIxtyy-two copies were published plus 10 A/Ps. Strangely the announcement card for the exhibition also took a handmade format but this is the official limited edition mailart. VG+.

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20 Mar JAMES LEE BYARS. 1/2 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 2014.

Posted at 14:31h in James Lee Byars

Mexico/Koln/NYC: Museo Jumex/ Walther König/MoMA PS1, 2014. 24 x 17cm, 302pp plus plasticised wrappers. Monograph and exhibition catalogue for a large scale retrospective that began in Mexico but travelled to the USA. Colour and b/w images throughout. Texts in Spanish. VG+....

18 Dec YEARS. IDEAS. 2014. SIGNED BY BELLINGHAM.

Posted at 12:36h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2014
11.5 x 16.5cm, 4pp . Artist's card issued as a New Year gift to friends and colleagues - on the front various adjectives are written (white on black) that could be applied to years, and on the back cove the same words applied to the concept of "Ideas". Hand signed on the inside of the card by the artist. VG+. Scarce....