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+.

...

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+.
...

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+.

...

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+.

...

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.

...

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.

...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
Original mailing box content of a 2 x 4 x 1cm, pewter faux "net marker" with the inscription "SP" and a 12 x 16cm, 4pp printed card. A Christmas gift (here to the art dealers and curators M+R Fricke, Dusseldorf). Net markers, traditionally made of wood or cork, were used to establish ownership of nets in fishing communities and in ports usually carved with the fisherman's initials (sometimes a monogram) or later, as boats and their crews grew larger, with the fishing numbers of the fisherman's boat.
The card has a drawing on it (by Gary Hincks) of five net markers with A, JS, JN, SP, A on them - these represent the first five of Jesus's disciples and there is a biblical quote - from Matthew 4: 'As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother,...

Glasgow: WAX336, 1999
10.4 x 14cm, 2pp. Artist's card noting that at the change from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582, the fact that the former calendar was created at a time when the concept of zero "was not known" (or rather not used mathematically). Bellingham's suggestion is to restore the year 0 by adding an additional year to any current date. VG+.

...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
14.2 x 9cm, 16pp, plus oversize white card covers and floral decorated dust jacket with tipped on title label. Content of six "exchange" poems - three by Thomas A. Clark and three by Finlay where the structure is of a two line poetic phrase where the swapping of the adjectives or a noun alters the meaning in subtle manners. This:

the centuries of the oak/the sermon in the stone
becomes
the centuries of the stone/the sermon in the oak
Each is illustrated by a small painting by Laurie Clark. VG+.

...

Shopping cart0
There are no products in the cart!
Continue shopping