paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

19 Apr ENHRENTEMPLE.

Posted at 12:34h in Unique Works

17 x 17 x 10cm, block of four etched stones on a marble base. An unique work with stylised Greek ionic columns holding a "frieze" with the words around the stones:

how blue! how far! how sad! how small! how white!

The texts are exclamations about a horizon where the sky meets the ground and a reminder how great forces are at work in the natural world hence this is a Romantic work.
This is an unique small work and not a maquette for a larger work.
There are small scratches and chips in the blocks but overall it is still in VG condition. We are not aware of the date of this work - we believe in the early 2000s....

19 Apr BLUE LEMON. HOT LEMON.

Posted at 11:39h in Object + Paper Multiples

N.p. (Basel?): s.p. (Finlay), n.d.
2.5 x 3.5 x 0.75cm, two part printed matchbox content of blue tipped safety matches. The outside of the box has two separate sides – one being a promotional address and logo for a Swiss nightclub and the other (rather bizarrely) being an Ian Hamilton Finlay work with the name of a boat (Blue Lemon) with details of its port (Moray Firth) and boat number. We can find no reference to this in the Finlay literature and we do not know the limitation but it came from the collection of Finlay’s friend and collaborator Janet Boulton. In VG+ estate. Scarce.
Not in the Murray catalogue raisonne.

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08 Apr WITHOUT DAY: PROPOSALS AND PROJECTS. 2000.

Posted at 11:17h in Invitation Cards

Edinburgh: City Arts Centre, 2000.
15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a group exhibition relating to the formation of the New Scottish Parliament. The front of the card shows a Finlay work from 1999 with the new parliamentary buildings relabelled with boat's numbers.
The architect Enri Miralles used upturned fishing boats as an inspiration for his ridiculously stupid, not-fit-for purpose building (if you have visited inside you will note the rooms for the Members of Parliament are too cramped and their assistants have to sit outside the rooms in a sort of open plan area that is again far too small but Miralles died and they went ahead with it when redeveloping the Old High School on Parliament Hill would have made so much more sense - First mInister Donald Dewar pushed this through and it was one of his bad decisions along with others that affected this writer in his past employment in politics but we digress out of past ire).
The text on the back of the card is also somewhat damning of the building with its faint praise and Finlay's question that if the buildings are boats, is the Parliament at sea level? VG+.

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26 Mar JOSEPH BEUYS. 2000.

Posted at 12:44h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Kleve: Museum Kurhaus, 2000 21 x 10cm, 6pp. Museum brochure for a posthumous retrospective with 4 b/w images (including the installation of the Tramwork sculpture in Venice. VG+. ...

24 Mar MODERN ANTIQUITIES. 2000.

Posted at 16:55h in Exhibition Catalogues

NYC: Nolan/Eckman Gallery, 2000
19 x 124cm, 52pp plus covers and pictorial dust jacket. An exhibition catalogue of mostly stone sculptures with Greek /classical themes although one sculpture is from the French revolution inspired works. 26 b/w full sheet images of works and short texts. VG+.

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19 Mar THE POETIC CONCEIT AND OTHER BLACK WORKS. 2000.

Posted at 21:15h in James Lee Byars

NYC: Galerie Michael Werner, 2000 15 x 10.5cm, 4pp (single sheet of white paper folded). Announcement for a posthumous show. One work (drawing on card) reproduced internally. Fine....

19 Feb THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICS/THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE. 2000.

Posted at 11:34h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2000
14 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with "THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICS" printed in red on one side and on the other also in red: "THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE". Small limitation. VG+.

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19 Feb INVENTAR DER OBJEKTE DIE EINER FRAU AUS LUDWIGSHAFEN GEHORT HABEN. 2000. ONE OF A SMALL NUMBER OF SIGNED COPIES.

Posted at 09:36h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2000
21 x 15cm, 28pp (printed recto only) and typographic wrappers. Artist's book displaying 200 small b/w images of objects supposedly belonging to a woman from Ludwigshafen. This copy is signed in pencil on the inside cover by Boltanski. VG+.

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20 Jan INVENTAIRE DU CABINET D’ART GRAPHIQUE 1977 – 1998. 2000.

Posted at 17:05h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000
0.8 x 14cm, unpaginated (c. 48pp). Original card covers. Artist's book listing in alphabetical order all of the works purchased by the Musee national d'Art moderne between 1977 and 1998. Boltanski had curated the exhibition "INVENTAIRE DU CABINET D'ART GRAPHIQUE" at the same museum and this book was released in an edition of 1,500 at that time. VG+.
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18 Jan IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 2000.

Posted at 23:33h in Invitation Cards

Basel: STAMPA, 2000
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a Finlay tow boat on water "Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glubn" on the front, verso gallery details,. A mailed and addressed example but still VG+.

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15 Jan DIARY. 2000.

Posted at 08:41h in Jonathan Monk

Manchester: Cornerhouse, 2000
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a large group show with reproduction of a drawing by Monk on the front in b/w and verso gallery details and a list of artists who included Rosa Almeida, Darren ALmond, John Baldessari, Christian Boltanski, Ian Breakwell, Adam Dant, Hanne Darboven, Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, On Kawara, Emma Kay, Mary Kelly, Michael Landy, Richard Long, Tracey Moffatt, Gabriel Orozco, David Shrigley, Georgina Starr and others. VG+.

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12 Jan THE INK FROM A BIC BIRO (RED). 2000. ONE OF 30 COPIES – EACH UNIQUE.

Posted at 15:44h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax (Bellingham), 2000
Two separate printed sheets - each 32 x 22.4cm in plastic transparent pouch. The first sheet being the title and the second a painting; an abstract pattern made from using the entire content of ink from a single 'Bic' biro and spreading it on the sheet (a 'Bic' biro is a cheap ink pen used most often in offices). There were 30 each of four different colours each unique within the total edition of 120. Fine.

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