07 Aug

Posted at 20:29h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10.2 x 15.2cm, 1pp artist's card printed brown on brown with a text in French:

LE SOCIALISME DEVRAIT FAIRE POUR LE PEUPLE CE QUE LE CUBISME
A FAIT POUR LE COUTEAU, LA FOUCHETTE ET LEA CUILLERE.

In translation that reads that "socialism should do for the people what cubism has done for the knife, the fork and the spoon".
Cubist still-life paintings often showed common implements such as knives and forks as significant elements in their composition, and Finlay here is suggesting that socialism should raise the lot of working people and give them significance in a similar manner. Finlay's politics are often assumed to be right-wing because of his interest in virtue, piety and classicism but that is not necessarily the case. This is the first of two cards with the same content but the design is different here with much more formal typography. VG+.

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05 Aug

Posted at 20:13h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
18.5 x 9.2cm, 2pp artist's card printed brown and black on white with a linocut by Gary Hincks after Ben Nicholson's Brown with Little Squares. The linocut is similar to the original abstract work with its rectangular shapes but here the squares are fishboxes complete with the occasional boat reference number. This is the third of three cards published by the Press which takes the original work by the St Ives artist as a jumping off point. . VG+.

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04 Aug

Posted at 16:15h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Helsinki: Helsinki Festival / Kunsthalle Helsinki, 1998
33 x 25cm, 86pp including 40pp of b/w images of the installation. Gray cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gray and red on cover. Exhibition catalogue for "Christian Boltanski: Night in August," which was part of the Helsinki Festival. Boltanski's installation was "Dernières Années" which consisted of several sections - a clothing collection (folded and placed on shelves), objects and images covered in black cloth (as if shrouded) to hide their content and a major archive of tin boxes with faces of unidentified people. There is an essay (in Finnish, Swedish and English) by Michael Glasmeier and an interview with Boltanski (in Finnish, Swedish and English) by Jan Kaila. VG+.

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03 Aug

Posted at 15:15h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998 14 x 21.5cm, black on cream offset backing sheet with a 7.2 x 15.2cm, tipped on full colour reproduction of a cheque from Graham Rich but with the latter's signature replaced with one of his small stylised ship drawings. This was a gift from Finlay to his friend Rich which followed a conversation about :"signatures" between the two artists. Limitation not known - probably 350. VG+. JOINT: 30 x 21cm, 1pp colour inkjet reproducing Finlay's letter to Rich in which he included the print. Folded for mailing. ...

01 Aug

Posted at 10:11h in Invitation Cards

Nailsworth: Cairn Gallery, n.d. (1998)
12.2 x 10cm, 4pp typographic announcement card for a small show of photographs by Janet Boulton and David Paterson of Little Sparta. VG+.

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30 Jul

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

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

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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27 Jul

Posted at 17:01h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998 6.3 x 9.3cm, 4pp artist's postcard with an image of a cruiser from the "Flower" series. The card might be seen as a valentine card and gift (a flower) but the name of the flower is also similar to Hearts' ease. VG+. ...

21 Jul

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

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

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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