09 Dec

Posted at 09:45h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Edinburgh: Axolotl Gallery, n.d. (c. 2013)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card for "works by Beuys inspired by Scotland with watercolours by Richard Demarco' and a utterly spurious and hilarious claim that : a new genre of contemporary art defined by art historians and the Museum Kunst Palast in as "event photography"" (such works have been commonly collected since the 60s). On the front there is a photograph of Demarco and Beuys at a time before Beuys mostly stopped replying to Demarco's communications after 1981 when he donated the income from the work The Poor House Doors (which sold for 300,000DM) to the Demarco Gallery. VG+

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08 Dec

Posted at 17:19h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Buenos Aires: Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 2013
25 x 19cm, 282pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue and monograph following the artist's major and large scale exhibition in the city. Full colour images throughout and essays in Portuguese and French by Diana Wechsler, Jean Herbert Martin and an interview with Anibal Jozami. One installation not seen elsewhere to our knowledge was in the Bibliotheque Nationale with 500 books suspended in the air above the room.
The photographic records of the events and the viewers are somewhat interesting and in some ways this is a photo-book of the exhibition and the visit. VG+.

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05 Dec

Posted at 13:29h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Glasgow Press, 2013
21 x 15cm, letterpress with a typographic design by Bellingham in red, brown on thick yellow card. An announcement for the launch event for Bellingham's artist book. VG+.

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14 Nov

Posted at 02:48h in Jonathan Monk

Brussels: MOREpublications, 2013
Eight 29.7 x 21cm, b/w offset prints (with a 1pp 30 x 21cm, signed colophon sheet) each showing a detail of a larger image where a poster of Richard Hamilton is being held up by a woman but the details do not allow the full image to be discerned easily. There is a reference in the images to Hamilton's painting Toaster and his exhibition Products in 2003.
One of 40 signed and numbered examples aside from 7 artist's proofs. VG+.

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09 Sep

Posted at 15:10h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

NYC: Independent Curators International, 2013
25.4 x 20.3cm, 448 plus card covers. A massive collective artist's book based on the original project by Obrist and Boltanski in 1993. All of the works are instruction based - the reader being expected to create the work as explained by the artist.
Boltanski offers two works - Les Ecoliers and Instruction both from 1993.
Slight mark from previous price label on front cover. Internally on the first blank page Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and Hans Ulrich Obrist have written "do it" and signed under each phrase.

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23 Jun

Posted at 10:40h in David Bellingham

Dundee: University of Dundee, 2013
22 x 15.4cm, outer folder content of five different 42 x 60cm (opened size) two-sided posters designed by the artist and a exhibition catalogue in the form of 21 x 15cm, 24pp (self cover) with interviews with the artist and one 21 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard. The exhinbition was of various wall drawings by the artist in the School of Humanities. VG+.

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21 Jun

Posted at 08:48h in Jonathan Monk

Manchester: Cornerhouse, 2013
30 x 21cm, 60pp plus card covers. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue for a major installation at the Kunstraum Dornbirn which had previously been a factory - Monk returned it to that function and assembled over 100 bicycles using volunteers and himself which were later left around in the city to allow lucky finders to keep a basic bicycle. The catalogue notes Monk regards the bicycle as being a symbol of freedom given his own early experience of the vehicle being a means of allowing him to go long distances alone. Numerous b/w images of one cycle in close up and colour images of the space and installation. VG+.

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