paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

29 Oct CITRON – CITROEN. 1997 – 2022. 2022.

Posted at 20:10h in David Bellingham

Brussels: Object Multiple, 2022. 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with a full colour photograph of a bowl of lemons with toy cars (Citroens) added. A take on Broodthaers' original correspondence work (and also somewhat similar to an Ian Hamilton Finlay work - Citrones). Moreover this is similar to a 1997 postcard issued by Bellingham under his own publishing house WAX66 but here it is to announce an edition in 13 examples issued by Object Multiple - "a still-life to be assembled and maintained as required." VG+. ...

04 Oct A BIT OF MATTER AND A LITTLE BIT MORE. 2022.

Posted at 21:05h in Jonathan Monk

Berlin: Haubrok Foundation/Hatje Cantz, 2022 30 x 21cm, 100pp plus card covers and brown printed dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue for a show that took place mostly during the Covid shutdown. Monk's exhibition was a display of his collection of announcement cards from the 70s and later. Colour installation shots throughout along with short texts in English and German. VG+....

02 Oct UN ULTIME HOMMAGE TO A NOTRE CHER CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 2021. REPRINT OF POINT D’IRONIE NR 7.

Posted at 18:53h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Point d'Ironie, 2021 42 x 30cm, 8pp (self cover) a reprint of Nr 7 of the artist's serial publication Point d'Ironie that was given out free by Agnes B in 10,000 copies. Boltanski along with Hans Ulrich Obrist was the instigator of the publication and this reprint was issued in response to the artist's death in July of 2021. The reprint has four appropriated photographs from a girls' school in Hamburstrasse in Berlin in 1938 and Boltanski notes that "we will never know what these young girls were looking at and what made them laugh that day." Folded for storage else VG. JOINT 15 x 21cm, 2pp accompanying sheet explaining the work and listing the 63 other numbers from the run. VG+. ...

30 Sep WATERFALL. 2022.

Posted at 08:49h in David Bellingham, Uncategorised

Glasgow: WAX366, 2022 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp full colour card with an image of a storage cabinet with hand towels arranged so that part of each towel is falling out towards the floor. The card is a visual pun on the title "Waterfall" which is ironically added to by the fact that the towels are objects usually used to dry up water not to provide it. VG+. ...

30 Sep CECI N’EST PAS UNE PIPE. 2022.

Posted at 08:45h in David Bellingham, Uncategorised

Glasgow: WAX366, 2022 10.5 x 15cm, 1pp full colour card with an image of some plumbing over which Bellingham has laid the title text: "CECI N'EST PAS UNE PIPE." to create a rather funny joke which references Rene Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" from 1929. VG+. ...

24 Sep A BIT OF MATTER AND A LITTLE BIT MORE. 2022. ONE OF ONLY 70 PRINTED GOLD ON WHITE CARD. SIGNED & WITH HANDWRITTEN EXPLANATORY NOTE BY MONK.

Posted at 19:24h in Jonathan Monk

Berlin: Haubrok Foundatino/Hatje Cantz, 2022 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard printed gold on white with an image of Monk gallery installation partly on the right. The card was one of only 70 such cards printed by the Foundation as an unannounced edition. This card is signed on the back by Monk in black felt tipped pen. JOINT: 10.5 x 15cm, 4pp hand made green card folder with a text handwritten by Monk in pencil - "White print on gold paper only seventy made" Monk has made a mistake as the print was gold on white not the other way around. VG+ with unique folder. ...

29 Jul CROISSANT PLAN. 2022.

Posted at 20:05h in David Bellingham

N.p.: Cottonrake, 2022 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard which purports to be a plan for a home backed croissant. The design of the card references a similar card by Ian Hamilton Finlay which shows a lemon in plan, side and front view and indicates it is a boat. The use of the colour blue reminds one of the original blueprints. There is a companion card which shows the plan for a sourdough loaf. VG+. ...

29 Jul SOURDOUGH PLAN. 2022.

Posted at 20:02h in David Bellingham

N.p.: Cottonrake, 2022 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard which purports to be a plan for a home backed sourdough loaf. The design of the card references a similar card by Ian Hamilton Finlay which shows a lemon in plan, side and front view and indicates it is a boat. The use of the colour blue reminds one of the original blueprints. There is a companion card which shows the plans for a Croissant. VG+. ...

01 Jul MY HEIGHT IN WATERCOLOUR, 2022. 2022. ONE OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 08:45h in Jonathan Monk

Quenast: More Publishers, 2022 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Printed postcard with watercolour stroke in red - the instructions on the card are to position the mark 180cm from the floor to indicate Monk's height in 2022. One of 10 artist's proofs aside from the edition fo 40 copies. Signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+. In original glassine envelope....

30 Jun LEPORELLO #8. 2022. ONE OF 250 COPIES.

Posted at 18:41h in Jonathan Monk

Gothenberg: LL'Editions, 2022 18.5 x 14cm, two part cardboard box with embossed title and foam insert content of a 14.3 x 9cm, 20pp single sheet leporello publication. Artist's book by Monk where he has re-photographed the original Ed Ruscha All the Buildings on Sunset Strip artist's book using an iphone 12 in panorama mode. One of 250 examples - part of the series of similar formatted books released by LL'Editions. VG+. ...

27 Jun UNTITLED. 2018. ARTIST’S PROOF.

Posted at 21:24h in Alex Allan

Glasgow: s.p. (Allan), 2018 42 x 30cm, black silkscreen on cartridge paper displaying an isolated section of a building exterior with trunking. Typically displaying Allan's interest in urban architecture . An artist's proof from an unknown edition size - signed and dated in pencil at the bottom of the sheet. ...

27 Jun UNTITLED (RED). 2010. SILKSCREEN. ONE OF EIGHT EXAMPLES.

Posted at 21:21h in Alex Allan

Glasgow: s.p. (Allan), 2010 58 x 42cm, red silkscreen on cartridge paper displaying the outline of a column. Typically displaying Allan's interest in urban architecture . One of only 8 examples (each in a different colour) signed , numbered and dated in pencil at the bottom of the image. ...