06 Oct

Posted at 22:11h in Exhibition Catalogues

NYC: Nolan / Eckman Gallery, 1996
16.5 x 18.5cm, 28pp. Original printed boards. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue with 7 tipped on colour lithographs - one of a boat and the other 6 of patterned images that seem abstract but are different images of "reef knots" - drawn by Gary Hincks - the ropes that drop from the sails allowing them to be tied up and the area of the sail reduced if required. These images were also released as a print portfolio. The names of the boats that the different sails are taken from are printed opposite every image - the different styles make the prints attractive and each is printed in a different dominant colour. Only 350 such books were printed.

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07 Sep

Posted at 19:59h in Exhibition Catalogues

Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag,1995
27 x 25.5cm, 228pp plus pictorial card covers. A major monograph of Finlay's public works issued at the same time as the exhibtion: "Ian Hamilton Finlay: works, pure and political" held at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, 7 Sept. - 26 Nov. 1995, There are 95 b/w images and texts in German. Edited by Zdener Felix and Pia Smilig. VG+.

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21 Aug

Posted at 20:38h in Exhibition Catalogues

Dusseldorf: Galerie M & R. Fricke, 1995
22 x 17cm, 100pp. Boards and printed dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue of city wide public art curated by Marion and Roswitha Fricke with works from Bogomir Ecker, Ingo Gunter, Shirazeh Houshiary, Kazui Karase, Raimund Kummer, Inge Mahn, Hermann Pitz and Kiki Smith as well as Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Finlay's contribution was a wall plaque "Equality does not consist in everyone being arrogant but in everyone being modest": quotation from Louis-Antoine Saint-Just. There is a short text in German by Marion Frick one the work and a full page colour image of the installation in situ. VG+.

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04 Mar

Posted at 09:07h in Exhibition Catalogues

Cambridge: Kettle's Yard, 1995
15 x 21cm, 24pp plus card covers. A documentation of the various artists who had previously exhibited (intervened) at the gallery who all exhibited in a group show. Finlay notes in a short text that he has a "sentimental regard for Kettle's Yard as the apotheosis of English Pebble Culture in the 1930s". Finlay had previously exhibited a number of small works on polished rocks and "pebbles" in the gallery - Unnatural Pebbles - one work is shown full page "KETTLE'S YARD CAMBRIDGE ENGLAND IS THE LOUVRE OF THE PEBBLE". Other artists included David Nash, Michael Craig- Martin, Richard Deacon, Richard Wentworth and others. VG+.

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06 May

Posted at 13:04h in Exhibition Catalogues

NYC: Nolan/Eckman Gallery, 1994
10.7 x 13.5cm, 28pp plus card covers, a red dust jacket and a tipped on title label. This book is subtitled "six Inscribed Fragments Concerning the French Revolution 1789 -- 1805. Six b/w photographs (by Antonia Reeve) of stone reliefs by Finlay are tipped on opposite a commentary by Siegfried Blasche and different quotations from Michelet . The commentaries can be seen as an adjunct to the works as they are not explained. Still an interesting book that is arguably an artists book as well as exhibition catalogue. On consideration we regard it as one of the latter.

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19 Jan

Posted at 15:47h in Exhibition Catalogues

Edinburgh: European Art Festival, 1993
24.5 x 17cm, 80pp and cover. Exhibition catalogue for a major public exhibition of light works which took place in Edinburgh. Finlay installed a huge neon work on the top of the Government's St Andrews House - the work was EUROPEAN HEADS but the word HEADS is upside down as if fallen and decapitated. Illustrated in colour. The glue binding has come loose else VG.

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19 Aug

Posted at 15:54h in Exhibition Catalogues

Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 1992
23 x 17.5cm, 108pp plus blue embossed and foil stamped boards. The exhibition catalogue for a group exhibition of works by a range of artists including Finlay. While not being specific to concrete and visual poetry the events (which included talks, films and workshops as well as the exhibition) - a large number of those exhibited worked in that field. A number of Finlay's works are reprodcued in full colour
Poiesis as we all know is a definition of poetry as "anything supremely harmonious or satisfying" - which to be fair describes much of Finlay's work and motivation and is almost a definition of neo-classicism. Minor wear at folds else VG..

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14 Feb

Posted at 21:11h in Exhibition Catalogues

London: ICA, 1992
14.5 x 15.5cm, 28pp plus card covers and printed light brown dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue of ten large bronze sculptures most of which relate to Finlay's interest in the French revolution. Ten duotone images are tipped onto pages. The exhibition then went to Yorkshire. VG+. Minimal text.Endpapers have a short musical phrase which (I think) is from La Marseillaise.
JOINTLY INSERTED (AS ISSUED):
14 x 14cm, 8p accordion fold insert with a commentary in English by Stephen Bann. VG>

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07 Sep

Posted at 10:38h in Exhibition Catalogues

Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1991
22 x 13.5cm, 16pp accordion fold. Exhibition catalogue with 5 b/w illustrations and an essay by Johan Ravenal and Andrea Miller_Keller. The works mostly relate to Finlay's mid-career interest in the French Revolution. Die cut for storage (as are all of the institution's catalogues. VG+.

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