paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

30 May PENTIMENTI. 1997.

Posted at 09:10h in EPHEMERA

Bologna: Segreteria Galleria d'Arte, 1997 21 x 9cm, 4pp announcement card for a solo show in Italy. One installation of tin boxes reproduced on the front, internally gallery details. VG+. ...

23 May HOMAGE TO DOM SILVESTER HOUEDARD. 1997.

Posted at 09:30h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: WAX336, 1997
10 x 11cm, 2pp. Artist's card with the text "typewriter" and "Scaffolding" repeated alternatively on the front. A reference to the typescripts of dsh. Early concrete poem by Bellingham. VG+.

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19 May FOR THE NEOCONCEPTUALIST LAWRENCE WEINER IS A PRESOCRATIC. 1997.

Posted at 11:12h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 1997
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with the text which amusingly compares the conceptual artist Weiner to a Pre-Socratic . VG+.

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10 May LES REGISTRES DU GRAND-HORNU (DETAIL). 1997.

Posted at 11:00h in EPHEMERA

N.p. (Bruxelles?): COmmunaute francaise de Belgique, 1997
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Full colour postcard with a details from the huge title installation. Fine.

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26 Apr IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. SAIL WHOLEMEAL. PRINTS 1963 – 1997. 1997

Posted at 21:15h in Exhibition & Other Posters

Dortmund: Museum am Ostwall, 1997 98 x 60cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of the extremely rare Sail Wholemeal silkcreen by Finlay. An exhibition of prints from Little Sparta. VG+.

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25 Apr IMAGINED LANDS: POSTAGE STAMPS FOR A SCOTTISH REPUBLIC. 1997. WITH ORIGINAL TIPPED ON LIMITED EDITION STAMP.

Posted at 17:02h in Invitation Cards

Edinburgh: Morning Star Press/City Art centre, 1997
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for the release of a "stamp" album released as part of an exhibition "Imagined Lands: Postage Stamps for a Scottish Republic". On the front of the card is a tipped on original cinderella stamp designed by Finlay. The stamps themselves were a limited edition. This is a very scarce card. VG+.

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13 Apr LEMONS WITHOUT BITTERNESS. 1997.

Posted at 16:39h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
17.6 x 20.5cm, 4pp. A drawing by Jo Hincks of a fifie boat: East coast herring boats. Inside Finlay has a poem:

Lemons without bitterness. Diamonds
without riches. Tabernacles without
ministers. Trees without song.

Fifies

Lemons are the boats, diamonds the fish which sparkle, tabernacles being the shelter below deck and trees being the masts - simple metaphors for the fishing vessels. VG+.

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02 Apr GEE DEES. 1997.

Posted at 14:51h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997) 10 x 13.9cm, 4pp. Artist's postcard with two black and white photographs of a well known Edinburgh toy shop (on Lothian Road) and internally a text:

Atlantis, Xanadu, The Herspirides, Tar-na-nOg, Arcadia.
Gee Dees

The various places are all fictional and the Gee Dees are a well known model company - objects that are also fictional reflections of the original item. VG+. ...

28 Mar KEILKRAFT PROPELLERS. 1997.

Posted at 09:55h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
30.5 x 28cm, offset lithograph printed brown and black on cream paper. The linocut image by Gary Hincks is of three mugs and a (sugar) bowl which has three small boat propellors in it much like flowers might be put in the absence of a vase. The work is inspired by a Ben Nicholson painting - Three Mugs and a Bowl - the same outline of the crockery is used by Hincks but the propellors are not there in the original.
Keilkraft Propellers are toy accessories used in model making so it is plausible that they might be left in a cup as storage in a strange still life but the positioning of the three propeller blades here suggest they are meant to propel the three coffee cups in some way. The coffee cups therefore become boats and the drawing a seascape.

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27 Mar TRAWLER FUNNELS. TWO MUGS. 1997.

Posted at 10:05h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
30.5 x 28cm, offset lithograph printed brown and black on cream paper. The linocut image by Gary Hincks is of two mugs each with boat registration numbers on them . The work is inspired by a Ben Nicholson painting - also Two Mugs - the same outline of the crockery is used by Hincks.
Both mugs are steaming from their contents - but in the drawing this makes them a visual parallel to the funnels of steam boats. Hence this is a maritime work and more than just a still life.

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20 Mar JAMES LEE BYARS. THE PERFECT DEATH. NUMERO SPECIAL POINT D’IRONIE. 1997.

Posted at 12:24h in James Lee Byars

Paris: Point d'Ironie/Agnes b, 1997 42 X 30CM, 2pp. Single sheet printed offset with the text "The Perfect Death" in the middle of the black in gold. This was the first ever number of the Point d'Ironie produced only at an art event soon after Byars death. This example has some edge damage and creases and has been folded in the past but is an Uber-rare item. ...

16 Mar LE COUCHER DU SOLEIL. 1997.

Posted at 17:05h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
9 x 8.9cm, 4pp artist's card with a thin line drawing by Gary Hincks of boats returning home. Inside Finlay has a poem:

And evening
all
a setting
out
of sails.

The drawing is based on a post-impressionist painting by Henri Riviere - Le Coucher du Soleil - which is usually called The Sunset by anglophones. Finlay, as often found, uses sunset and returning home as a metaphor for death. VG+.

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