paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

18 Nov LA VIE IMPOSSIBLE. 2001.

Posted at 10:36h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln/Dessau: Walter Konig/ Anhaltische Gemaldegalerie, 2001 25.5 x 20.5cm, 208pp plus boards. First edition of this artist's book with 101 images (collaged from xerox images by Boltanski) and texts in French, German and English from people who knew Boltanski printed opposite to the images on some pages. The pages with the images are printed on semi-opaque paper and backed by black blank sheets to cause a ghostly effect. As ever the images in the collages are taken from the artist's own collection of vintage photographs usually found in flea markets and in unidentified photo-albums.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, Nov. 2001-Jan. 2002. VG+.

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05 Nov NOVEMBER 5TH. 2001.

Posted at 23:25h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2001BR> 8.4 x 13cm, 2pp artist postcard issued near the British bonfire night - November 5th. The tradition of remembrance of the "Gun Powder Plot" where Guy Fawkes planned to destroy the British parliament as a rebellion against the Protestant leadership. The word EMBER is shown in red on the card within the NOVEMBER - a reference to those bonfires. VG+.

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03 Nov SMALL FIRES BURNING (AFTER ED RUSCHA AFTER BRUCE NAUMAN AFTER. 2001. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 20:53h in Jonathan Monk

Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2001
20 x 13.5cm, folded size. Opens to 60 x 80cm approx. Artist designed poster - a duotone and coloured photograph of a cigarette lighter. This copy is unusually signed in pencil bottom left by Monk. Fine although folded as issued.
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18 Oct DOMESTIC PENSEES. 2004. WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTE TO PAUL ROBERTSON FROM STUART MILLS.

Posted at 13:37h in Artist's Books

Belper: Aggie Weston's Editions, 2004
19.4 x 13cm, 68pp plus boards and dustjacket. Place ribbon. One of the last books published in Finlay's life time which was based on collected aphorisms and one line poems taken from notebooks (blue jotters) in which he wrote down ideas and single lines. Edited by his friend and long time collaborators Stuart Mills and Colin Sackett. One of 500 copies printed. VG+.
JOINT WITH:
15 x 10.5cm, 1pp, compliments slip from the Aggie Weston press which has a lengthy handwritten note from Mills to Paul Robertson which talks about the enthusiasm for the book and how well it was received by the likes of the Tate Gallery. In original torn posted envelope.

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13 Oct CHRISTIAN BOLTANKI. 2001.

Posted at 14:34h in EPHEMERA

Gottingen: NORD/LB/ Stadt Goslar/Max-Planck-Instituts, 2001 10 x 21cm, 10pp (single folded leaflet) with a typographic design for three different exhibitions and installations by the artist. VG+. ...

22 Sep SOLID SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME IN “THE HERALD” SEPTEMBER 22 2005.

Posted at 09:22h in Miscellany

Glasgow: The Herald, 2001
60 x 39.8cm, 12pp (self cover) - a broadside newspaper article on a new anthology of concrete poetry in the Weekend Supplement by Barry Gordon. with a large colour image of the older Finlay who the journalist picked out because of his Scottish roots.
The picture shows Finlay in a Rangers training top - which as someone with a lifelong hatred of the bigotry of Rangers and Celtic was a disappointment but years later Eck Finlay told me his father had just grabbed it rushing out for the photograph and was embarrassed it was in the shot. Maybes aye, maybes nah. VG+.

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15 Sep BOLTANKSI. 2001.

Posted at 09:36h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, 2001
27 x 14.5 x 4.8cm, two part rubber stamped thick cardboard box content of:

WITNESS. 10.5 x 14.5cm, 32 2pp postcards bound as a book with wrap around cover. Each card in b/w displaying shots of the public installations "Witness" - enlarged eyes on posters around the city.
REVENIR. 42 x 29.8cm, 4pp artist's book (magazine) consisting of a group photograph of young men (possibly a sport club) and three enlarged faces from the photograph. Folded to fit the box.
UNTITLED (CHINESE PORTRAIT). 42 x 29.8cm, 4pp artist's book (magazine) consisting of a double sheet image of the enlarged eyes and two enlarged faces which appear to be Chinese faces. Folded to fit the box.
Two booklets - CHINESE PORTRAIT/ PORTRAIT CHINOIS- each 18 x 12.5c, 32pp. Text only in English and French with a short text by curator Magdalena Abakanowicz. The work WITNESS is briefly discussed with Boltanski placing the works around the city when he realised there was very little in the way of record of the Warsaw Ghetto.
UNTITLED - eight sheets - each 30 x 21cm, folded and bound together by a paper band - text in Polish. One sheet has some recent b/w portraits of the artists.

BOLTANSKI. 20 x 14.5cm, unpaginated (c. 48pp) printed on semi-opaque and opaque papers with some of the sheets fold outs. Minimal text with full colour images of the various works exhibited in the show. Hard printed boards.
An extensive exhibition catalogue with artist's booiks/publications included. VG++ condition and somewhat hard to find.

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07 Sep IF YOU STATE AT A PRINTED PAGE FOR LONG ENOUGH IT STARTS TO MOVE. 2001. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 20:58h in Jonathan Monk

Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2001
20 x 13.5cm, folded size. Opens to 60 x 80cm approx. Artist designed poster with a photograph of Monk being covered by some of his artist's books by Sol Lewitt. The image is very similar to a famous promotional image of Ed Ruscha covered in his own books. This copy is unusually signed in pencil by Monk on the reverse of the poster. Fine although folded as issued.
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07 Sep UNTITLED. (BOOKS AFTER RUSCHA). 2001. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 10:36h in Jonathan Monk

Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2001
84 x 60cm, artist designed poster and announcement with a b/w photograph of Monk posing after the famous photograph of Ed Ruscha covered in his books (although here Monk is covered in books by Sol Lewitt). Folded for posting as issued – this example is signed in pencil by Monk. The exhibition showed six films by Monk relating to Lewitt. Fine.

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20 Aug VINTAGE FAX COPY OF WILD HAWTHORN PRESS INVOICE. 2001.

Posted at 11:34h in Miscellany

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
30 x 21cm, 1pp vintage fax copy of an invoice for various publications. A bit tatty.

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27 Jul MEETING #61, #62. 2001.

Posted at 11:01h in Jonathan Monk

Edinburgh/London: Morningstar/Lisson Gallery, 2001
10 x 10cm, 6pp concertina folded single sheet with two of Monk's meeting works printed on it - suggesting a rendezvous at the "Luxor (main entrance) 3900 S. Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas USA, November 21, 2010, sunset" and on the reverse another meeting with the text in Arabic (which sadly we cannot translate). Printed in an edition of 5,000 copies. VG+.

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19 Jul MANCHESTER PAVILION. 2001.

Posted at 15:57h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2001
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour photograph of the unofficial "Manchester" pavilion in a house on a canal in Venice that displayed work during the Venice Biennale. VG+.

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