paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

23 May ABSTENTION. 2005.

Posted at 13:41h in David Bellingham

Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005
14.5 x 21cm, 2pp. artist’s postcard as edition. The Scottish Parliament is show overlaid with red “x”s - the postcard was issued in a small number of copies during the period when Bellingham took a break from making his major work TURNOUT at the Heart Gallery, Edinburgh where he re-wrote the entire number of Xs cast in the Scottish 2003 Scottish parliamentary election by hand. "Abstention" is a counterpart to the "Turnout” project and represents the 50.7% of people who did not vote during the 2003 election.

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22 May TURNOUT. 2005.

Posted at 18:32h in David Bellingham

Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005
15 x 10.2cm, 32pp plus printed card covers. Artist's book from Scottish artist, David Bellingham that solely consists of 4,668 reproductions of hand drawn crosses and an illustration of a ballot box.
There are strictly 500 hand-numbered copies of this book - aside from one unique book (no. 1) within the edition which corrects the entire number of crosses to exactly represent the total number of votes cast in Scotland during the May 5th 2005 General Election (2,333,882).
Conceptual work and/or concrete poem, this is a peon to democracy and a metaphor of the substantial effort required in maintaining openness in society. If ever there was time to remind ourselves of the importance of our pluralist societies, it is now.
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20 May IN PLACE AND OUT OF PLACE. 2005. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 18:27h in Jonathan Monk

Paris: Yvon Lamber, 2005
15 x 21cm, 2pp artist designed announcement card with an image of installation of a photograph of Daniel Buren in the Guggenheim . This example is signed by Monk on the reverse in pencil. VG+.

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14 May UNTITLED. c. 2005.

Posted at 12:21h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (c. 2005)
21 x 15cm, 1pp plus blue card covers which are metal spiral bound.
The text on the single page (printed on white card) reads:

SPIRAL BINDING
(PAGE TO COVER)

SPIRAL BINDING
(MAST TO SAIL)

Finlay is comparing the physical form of the book to the way a sail is bound to a mast.
This was not Finlay's first comparison of spiral binding to a sailboat - the work SPIRAL BINDING from 1972 consisted of shaped cards bound together to resemble a ship's sail printed with the boat's number. To our mind this is a cruder version of that work .
A note on date - we cannot find any reference to allow us to date this item accurately - we believe it to be one of Finlay's last artist's books and have dated it as 2005 but may be wrong.

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12 May FLORIDA CALLS … A PROJECT BY JONATHAN MONK. 2005.

Posted at 11:18h in Jonathan Monk

Miami: The Moore Space, 2005
12.2 x 18cm, 2pp announcement card for a project by Monk where some vintage slides of Florida originally owned by Monk's father included the image of a red bathing suited woman jumping into the sea - Monk with students tried to recreate this scene in real life and record it in film and slide projection. VG+.

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03 May SILKSCREEN PORTRAITS OF IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. c. 2005.

Posted at 19:26h in Miscellany

Edinburgh: Shelagh Atkinson, n.d,
16 x 12cm, plastic photo folder content of six different inkjet imnages of portraits of Ian Hamilton Finlay made as silkscreens by Artkinson. VG+.

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23 Apr (MISUNDER STANDINGS). 2005.

Posted at 10:49h in Jonathan Monk

Chapultpec: Galeria de Arte Mexicano, 2005 21 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a group show which included works by Josef Albers, Martin creed, Tina Modotti, Gunther Gerzco and others. VG+. ...

19 Apr I SAW ANDY WARHOL IN MY COFFEE CUP. 2005. LIMITED EDITION.

Posted at 20:30h in Jonathan Monk, Uncategorised

Avignon: Collection Lambert en Avignon, 2005
15 x 15 x 15cm, espresso coffee cup and saucer with an image of Warhol on the inside of the bottom of the cup and the title "I saw Andy Warhol at the bottom of my cup for a second, then he vanished." on the saucer. A limited edition object multiple which reminds the owner of the short timescale of Warhol's famous dictum that "in the future everyone will be famlus for 15 minutes."...

12 Apr IDEAS LEAVE OBJECTS STANDING. 2005.

Posted at 10:09h in David Bellingham

Newcastle: Baltic, 2005 22 x 17.5cm, unpaginated (c. 94pp) plus printed boards. Artist's book by the Scottish artist which displays his fascination with measurement, and the most minimal elements of discourse i.e. the letter or individual word. At his best Bellingham takes visual poetry and brings it into the sphere of conceptual art. One of 1,500 copies. Fine....

25 Mar ET IN ARCADIA EGO. ART POSTCARD. c. 2005.

Posted at 17:11h in Miscellany

Edinburgh: Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, n.d. (c. 2000)
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp commercial art postcard released by the museum with an image of the sculpture Et in Arcadia Ego on the front. VG+.

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18 Mar 6 SEPTEMBRES. 2005.

Posted at 13:52h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Milano: Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, 2005
12 x 17cm., 144pp with original printed boards. First edition of this artist's book with texts by Jean-Hubert Martin in English, French and Italian. The book consists of sixty-one stills chosen by the artist from TV news images broadcast on each September 6 (his birthday) from 1944 to 2004 (after 1973 the images are in colour). VG+.

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14 Mar IAN HAMILTON FINLAY OF CONCEITS AND COLLBORATORS. 2005.

Posted at 17:37h in Invitation Cards

Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 2005
21 x 10cm, 6pp (single folded sheet). This was Finlay's penultimate exhibition while alive - exhibiting books and other works as well as photographs - short text and some images of Little Sparta by Dave Paterson. VG+.

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