Bremerhaven: Kabinett fur aktuelle Kunst, 1975
16.7 x 11cm, 70pp. Card covers. First edition of this conceptual art book with Weiner's texts in English and German. Four b/w photographic images of two women hors texts. The book is printed dos a dos to allow it to be read in both directions. One of 700 copies released. Ref: Weiner books nr 14. Scarce. Fine.
Munchen: Galerie Schottle, 1976 10.5 x 14.8cm, 4pp announcement card with a conceptual work by Weiner reproduced in German and English in the middle, and on the outside of the card the artist's credo (1. THE ARTIST MAY CONSTRUCT THE WORK/ 2. THE WORK MAY BE FABRICATED/ 3. THE WORK NEED NOT BE BUILT) also in both languages. VG+.
Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1976 12.5 x 12.5cm, b/w sleeve with a design by Weiner and four small photographs content of an audio CD containing the title tracks (both vocalisations) performed by Weiner and Cooje Van Bruggen. Fine. One of 500 copies.
New York: The Kitchen, 1976. 10.5 x 15cm, 1pp announcement card for a a preview screening of Lawrence Weiner’s 23 minute video "A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More", which mixed pornography with philosophical and conceptual narration and music. Videography by Michael Schamberg. Produced by Moved Pictures and Fifi Corday. VG+. Scarce.
Eindhoven, Van Abeemusuem, 1976
27 x 21cm, 52pp plus card covers. First edition. Artist's book with texts in English and Dutch. One of 650 published. VG condition but there is a remnant mark from an adhesive sticker on the front cover. Ref: Weiner Catalogues nr. 13
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27 x 21cm, 8pp. Inserted addendum - a catalogue of works from 001 - 421. Fine. Scarce.
Canada: Art Metropole, 1976 First printing of a 68cm x 450cm wallpaper multiple from a first edition of only 72 unnumbered examples issued. A repetitive black text on white paper reads: "Caught Between Ships Passing in the Night" alongside a b&w pattern of a stylised ocean liner. Fine = unopened in original plastic wrapping.
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1976 20.8 x 10cm, 24pp, original printed orange wrappers. Weiner’s texts in English, and also translated into Dutch by Coosje Kapteyn-van Bruggen. One of Weiner's earliest publications, and his second artist book for Amsterdam's 'Art & Project'. Limited to 300 copies. Ref. Dieter Schwarz. Lawrence Weiner Books 1968-1989. Catalogue raisonne, p. 35. Slight fading around spine due to sun else VG. Scarce.
Edinburgh: Fruit Market Gallery, 1976 29.7 x 20.8cm, 30pp. Card covers. Exhibition catalogue with each artist's works being reproduced in b/w and minor biographical text. VG +.
Hamburg: Anatol AV und Filmproduktion, 1977<BR> 20 x 14cm, 272pp plus card covers. Artist's book which follows on from Statements (1968) listing Weiner's textual "sculptures" which are expected to be completed (if desired) by the reader. This copy sadly has some printing flaws to the front cover where the blue of the ink appears scuffed (although it is not). Internally VG+. Scarce. <BR><BR>
Zurich: INK. Halle fur Internationale Neueu Kunst, 1978 25 x 19cm, unpaginated (c. 64pp) plus wrappers. Exhibition catalogue published as a comprehensive catalogue for all exhibition held at the Ink. Halle für Internationale Neue Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland. Artists in the catalogue include A.R. Penck, Robert Ryman, Sol LeWitt, Jannis Kounellis, Georg Baselitz, Richard Long, Lawrence Weiner, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Robert Mangold. Text in English and German. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Scarce.
NYC: Moved Pictures Archive, 1978 Standard audio cassette with pictorial (artist designed) black on cream insert and standard cassette casing. Relatively early soundwork by Weiner with music by . 29:30 long on both sides of the tape. Scarce. Fine estate.
LA/NYC: Heavy Industry Publications/Moved Pictures, 1978. 17.8 x 12.7cm, 120pp. Original wrappers. First and only edition of this Ruscha's unusual collaboration with Lawrence Weiner - 65 b/w and colour images of women in intense conversation with only a few pages containing any text (including the incorrect assertion that "By 2000 the majority of racing car drivers will be female"). One of 3,560 copies printed and distributed in garages, dime stores, comic book stores etc as were all of Rucha's point of sale books. Now scarce. This copy very fine with the original 10$ price sticker still to be found on the back cover (which we don't regard as a flaw).
NYC: Castelli/ Sonnabend, 1979
10.5 x 15.2cm, 2pp, Announcement card for the film with recto a b/w reproduced still of a man and a woman looking out of a window. Fine.
NYC: Castelli/ Sonnabend, 1979
42 x 30cm, 1pp, Offset lithographic poster with two b/w reproduced stills of the male protagonist from the film. Bit tatty near edges with closed tears and creases but scarce ephemera.
NYC: Leo Castelli Gallery, 1979
12.5 x 18cm, b/w gloss card. Recto is printed Weiner's conceptiual art credo but interestingly qualified by the artist to indicate it is culture specific, namely: "In relation to probable use within a culture (i.e. western): 1. an artist may construct a work 2. a work may eb fabricated 3. a work need not be built. A reasonable assumption is that each being equal and consistent with the intent of an artist the decision as to condition rests within the needs of the receiver upon the occasion of receivership."
The exhibition was "3 works of Lawrence Weiner presented for sale &/or information at Leo Castelli NYC". A mailed copy which has some minor edge damage and on the return a postal address by hand and some colour staining from rubber stamp impressions presumably due to the mailing process.
München: Rüdiger Schottle, 1979 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a major installation by Weiner, Designed by Weiner this is a commercial postcard showing the Rathaus in Munich that Weiner has over printed with two texts in German and English. Gallery details are overprinted on the reverse also on the commercial card design. Fine. Scarce.
Toronto: A Space, n.d. (1980) 28 x 22cm, 1pp programme for the important public broadcasting of radio and sound works by artists. Included are David Askevoid, Michael Snow, Christopher Knowles, Robert Wilson, Vito Acconi, Nancy Hot, Ian Murray, General idea, Tom Sherman, Michael Asher, Peter Downsborough, Dan Graham, Laurie Anderson, Lawrence Weiner, and others. Radio by Artists was a series of ten half-hour programs of works for radio by visual artists of the Fine Art Broadcast Service, Toronto, recorded from 1978 to 1980. This series was produced and curated by Ian Murray, narrated by Margret Dragu and Tanya Rosenberg with music by Andrew J.Paterson and Robert Stewart. A scarce typographic document of the event. Very slight edge wear else VG+.
Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, 1980 10.5 x 14.8cm, 2pp artist's postcard with an image of the title work "The rate of attraction of one object towards another as determined by the degree of encumbrance experienced by each object" on the front and verso museum details and standard postcard design. VG+.
London: Anthony d'Offay 1980 64 x 50 cm red and black on white offset artist designed exhibition poster. Very good although folded for mailing as issued. In original printed envelope as issued by the gallery.
Dusseldorf: Konrad Fischer Galerie, 1981 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a design by Weiner - the first of five such shows by Weiner at the famous German gallery. Fine,
Firenze: Zona, 1981 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp. Announcement card for a two-week long radio project organised by Maurizio Nannucci - sound works by Weiner, Export, Goldstein, Sarkis, Nitsch, Baldessari, Hamilton, Beuys, Christiansen, Giorno, Kaprow, Sonnier, Lax, Heidsieck, Chopin, Hansen, Sonnier, Gette, Vautier, Kriwet and others. VG+.
