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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 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 BOY IN A FIELD. 2001.

Posted at 17:21h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001 9.4 x 12cm folded, 4pp artist's postcard with a drawing by Gary Hincks after a work by Walter Langley on the front and a poem by Finlay internally: BOY IN A FIELD

He sprawls
on the grass

a boat
in his hand,

his big flung-down
felt hat
another.

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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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14 Jul MANCHESTER PAVILION. 2001.

Posted at 16:38h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2001
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour photograph of the window of the "Manchester" pavilion during the 2001 Venice Biennale. A neon says Manchester and is lit in red (a bit like the red light district curtains). A second card was released two years later with a blue curtain. VG+.

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18 Jun QUEEN ELIZABETH, QUEEN ELIZABETH 2, MAURETANIA. 2001.

Posted at 23:11h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2001
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour photograph of three model boats (1/600 scale Airfix passenger liners) displayed on a grass lawn. VG+.

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16 Jun 4. 2001.

Posted at 11:18h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
12.6 x 2.7cm, 4pp, black on orange card with internally four Finlay poems each considering aspects of a fishing village and community - such as:

CHANGE OF USE

rain-filled
September boats
becoming ponds
VG+

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12 Jun INTERMISSIONS. 2001.

Posted at 10:37h in Invitation Cards

Basel: STAMPA, 2001
21 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a Finlay solo show which has a photograph of a work CHORE, n. a small humdrum task: a prosaic task; a refuge which is carved on the handle of a broom.

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09 Jun IAN HAMILTON FINLAY PATHS. 2001.

Posted at 23:40h in Invitation Cards

Langenbruck: Sculpture at Schoenthal Monestery, 2001
14.4 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with a b/w image of Little Sparta on the front taken by Jennifer Gough-Cooper. A photographic exhibition showing paths from Finlay's gardens and other grounds. Inside gallery details. VG+.

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