paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

30 Jul COBLED UP (2). 1998.

Posted at 20:07h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
17 x 12cm, 2pp artist's card printed black on blue with a linocut by Gary Hincks after Ben Nicholson's Three Goblets. The linocut is similar to the original abstract work in that three rudders are shown overlapping in the design. A Coble is a North East English fishing boat with a long thin rudder which is reproduced here. This is the second of two cards with a very similar drawing was published at the same time in black on white. VG+.

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29 Jul COBLED UP (1). 1998.

Posted at 20:01h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
17 x 12cm, 2pp artist's card printed black on white with a linocut by Gary Hincks after Ben Nicholson's Three Goblets. The linocut is similar to the original abstract work in that three rudders are shown overlapping in the design. A Coble is a North East English fishing boat with a long thin rudder which is reproduced here. A second card with a very similar drawing was published at the same time in black on blue. VG+.

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27 Jul CINEMA-GOING. 1998.

Posted at 19:53h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10 x 13.5cm, 1pp artist's card printed black on dark blue (perhaps reflecting the low light of the film room). Finlay tells the tale of how he would watch Captains Courageous (in the East Neuk of Fife) as a young boy and the cinema projector was powered by an old fishing engine which meant the children could hear the put-put throughout the film which was about Massachusetts fishing industry looking for cod. VG+.

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21 Jul SOMETHING SIDE-BY-SIDE NOSOMETHING. 1998. HAND-TYPED UNIQUE BOOKWORK. SIGNED BY BELLINGHAM. VERY EARLY WORK.

Posted at 10:43h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 1998
20 x 12.5cm, 4pp folded card to create a small book. On the front the word SOMETHING SIDE-BY-SIDE NOSOMETHING has been hand-typed by Bellingham and inside the text: NOSOMETHING SIDE-BY-SIDE SOMETHING to create a concrete poem.
Bellingham did an unspecified number of these works by hand - a very early work. Signed on the back in pencil. A very early work by the artist. VG+.

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15 Jul COMPRA VENTA. 1998. TWO VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE.

Posted at 11:26h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Valencia: La Imprenta Comunicación Gráfica, 1998
25.4 x 18cm, slipcase content of two volumes - both 25 x 17.6cm, 86pp and 212pp respectively plus blue boards. The ornate exhibition catalogue(s) for a major site-specific installation where Boltanski placed many objects and pieces of furniture in a former silo and offered them for sale. When any item was sold, a white sheet was placed over the object to create an ever increasing sense of being a mortuary. Additionally hidden audio speakers were placed among the objects, recounting personal stories and memories attached to each item. Some of the stories are recounted in this book. Essay by Jose Miguel G. Cortes.
Texts are in Spanish and Catalan, with an English summary in the first volume. Illustrated throughout in b/w. VG+.

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08 Jul OAK/BARK/BOAT. 1998.

Posted at 19:47h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10.5 x 14.1cm, 1pp artist's card printed black on grey. The text has a quotation from Heidegger's The Country Lane. Heidegger often walked a particular lane deep in his thoughts but this scene mentions how children he encountered made pretend boats from peeled oak bark and how "those play voyages knew nothing yet of journeys upon which all shores are left behind" - a consideration of how death is not a thought in the happy minds of the young. VG+.

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06 Jul TEA PARTY AT 136 AND OTHER WORKS. 1998. POSTER SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 21:38h in Jonathan Monk

Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1998
42 x 30cm, 2pp small poster with an appropriated image of a man standing on his head but Monk has rotated the image such that the man supporting the gymnast is upside down and the acrobat is the right way up. Verso gallery details. This was Monk's 16th ever solo show and the first at Yvon Lambert's gallery. The poster is folded twice for mailing and is signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+.

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03 Jul LES SALTIMBANQUES. 1998.

Posted at 19:21h in Artist's Postcards

Glasgow: WAX366, 1998
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Full colour artist postcard by Finlay's former assistant but visual poet in his own right. A photograph of one of Finlay's toy boats seen from outside the building through the window is on the front, vwrso standard postcard design. The title references "Family of Saltimbanques " painting by Pablo Picasso in 1905 - an itinerant group of actors. ...

01 Jul FOLDS. 1998. TWO CARDS IN ENVELOPE.

Posted at 19:39h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10 x 6.5cm, envelope with printed label content of two 3.5 x 5cm 1pp folded cards.
The first card created by Thomas A Clark and Laurie Clark reads "FOLDING THE LAST LAMB" meaning the animals have been placed in a pen. The second card by Finlay reads FOLDING THE LAST SAIL" which has a double meaning of storing a sail and/or folding a sail around a dead sailor as a form of coffin before burial at sea.Both cards are folded - adding a physicality to the metaphors by altering the cards themselves.
This is the second version of Finlay's card - previously published by the Wild Hawthorn Press in 1997 in a larger size and alone but with an acknowledgement to the Clarks. This version has both the original card and its adaption.VG+.

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27 Jun B OATS. 1998.

Posted at 19:34h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10.5 x 15.1cm, 1pp artist's card printed blue and ochre on white. The text has a "b" then "oats" allowing it to be read both as oats and boats. Beneath is found "The Orcadian is a crofter with a boat while the Shetlander is a fisherman with a croft" apparently a traditional saying. Hence one can read the Oats/Boats as a direct representation of the saying. Finlay lived for some years in Orkney in a fisher community where he was employed as a shepherd. VG+.

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19 Jun EN PAERE. 1998.

Posted at 16:46h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 1998
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour photograph of a light fitting where a pear is replacing the usual bulb. Photograph by Bellingham. VG+.

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18 Jun UNTITLED. AIRCRAFT CARRIER. (FROM LITTLE SPARTA: PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN). 1998.

Posted at 18:57h in Photographs

30 x 24cm, b/w original photograph taken by Robin Gillanders of Little Sparta for his book "‘Little Sparta, Portrait of a Garden". This shows one of Finlay's garden sculptures of an aircraft carrier. Gillanders took the images between 1994 and 1998. Originally a gift from the photographer to Janet Boulton, one of Finlay's later collaborators and a friend to both Gillanders and the poet. VG+.

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