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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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+....
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....
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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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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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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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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Glasgow: Wax366, 2013
22 x 15.4cm, outer folder content of 9 varied artist's postcard and a colophon list. One of 750 signed and numbered examples. VG+.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 2013
21 x 12cm, 2pp artist postcard with two adaptions of road signs designs on the front, verso artist's details. VG+.
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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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Edinburgh: Lyon & Turnbull, 2013 27 x 21cm, 88pp plus card covers. Auction catalogue which amongst a large number of other items offers 6 works by Finlay including a toy tank made by the poet in 1979. There are colour images and descriptions and the wooden tank is reproduced on the cover of the publication. VG+. ...
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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