3 COLORIAGES. 1992.
St Gallen: Hans-Ulrich Obrist, 1992 7 x 7cm, 1pp small typographic announcement for an exhibition of paintings curated by Obrist. Unusual format in size - VG+.
St Gallen: Hans-Ulrich Obrist, 1992 7 x 7cm, 1pp small typographic announcement for an exhibition of paintings curated by Obrist. Unusual format in size - VG+.
Lille: Affaires en tout genres, 1992 30 x 21cm, 1pp. Black on light grey paper - small format poster for a show of paintings and films. One image of Gette pointing to a painting of a female pubic area. Folded for posting else VG+. On the reverse Gette has written a short note about a revue that was published by the same gallery. JOINT: Handwritten envelope to Madame Besson-Millet by Paul-Armand Gette, neatly opened.
Montreuil-sous-Bois: s.p. (Gette), 1992 30 x21 cm, 1pp b/w offset with a rubber stamp impression that reads "contribution a l'etude des lieus restreints". There are three reproduced latin labels for plants that are foreign to the area that Gette found in the area. This is the documentation of the work. VG+.
Paris: Centre Culturel Suisse, Novembre-Décembre 1992 21 x 15cm, 4pp. A single number of the bulletin with a shot article - "Paul-Armand Gette, Furkapass et glacier du Rhône" on page two along with inserted: the Programme: Novembre- Décembre 1992. VG+.
Walcheturm: Walcheturm 92, 1992 14 x 9cm, 2pp artist designed Christmas card for an art festival organised by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Eva Maria Presenhuber. The front is a photograph by Gette of a Xmas tree which is decorated by seven pairs of female panties. VG+.
Rennes: FRAC Bretagne, 1992 21 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a museum retrospective of the work of Paul-Armand Gette. VG+.
Lyon: FRAC Rhône-Alpes, 1992 13.7 x 15cm, 8pp (single folded sheet). Announcement for a talk by Gette as part of a conference of talks on Georges Perec, Michel Leiris, and Michel Schneider as well as the artist's “A propos du modèle et d’une intervention dans la salle de bain”. Two tiny b/w images of Gette. VG+.
Lyon: FRAC Rhone-Alps, 1992 13 x 18cm, 2pp announcement card with an image of a flower in an old fashioned French bidet (La Nymphe a la vasque intime). Verso gallery details. VG+.
Paris: Musee d"art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1992 10.5 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card (typographic design) with the artist's "0m" symbol on the front, verso museum details. VG+. JOINT: Hand addressed (by Gette) postal envelope - neatly opened.
Calais: Musee des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, 1993 15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card with a photograph of a plastic lily on some lingerie but part of the crotch of the panties is overlaid on the petals so as to hide the flower - a very abstract erotic image. Verso gallery details. VG+. JOINT: Hand addressed (by Gette) mailing envelope - nearly opened.
Le Havre: Ecole d'art, 1993 15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card with an image of the artist holding his "0m" symbol next to a seascape - the 0m is both a reference to touch (zero metres) but here also referring to sea level. Gette's earliest works often examined the seaside and flora and fauna of beaches. Verso gallery details. VG+.
Dijon: Creation Formation Pedagogie, 1993 24 x 17cm, 21pp and card covers with printed pink dustjacket. A lecture by the artist on photography and film-making along with a "letter" to Gette by Alain Coulange. Two small colour images of a still life of a wrist watch, a strawberry and a pair of panties as frontispiece. One of 1,000 examples. VG+.
Paris: s.p. (Gette), 1993 15.2 x10.8cm, hand clipped xerox reproduction os a short article in Art Press no 186 1993 regarding an exhibition in Saint Gall in Switzerland where the artist's presentation of his work in a window in the Textile Museum was taken down after only 15 minutes by the curator who claimed the work "gave a sexually reductive image of women". The date and source is handwritten by Gette in black ink.
Auvergne: FRAC, 1993 10 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a solo show. VG+.
Nantes: Editions joca seria, 1993<BR> 28 x 28cm, 48pp. Card covers. Exhibition catalogue/artist’s book with 19 b/w and colour images of recent and historic works by Armand including his sexually driven works. Essay by Stephan Berg. VG+.<BR><BR>
Clement Ferrand: Fonds Regional d'Art, 1993<BR> 30 x 21cm, 32pp. Card covers. Artist’s book of b/w drawings where one of the drawings has been coloured in by a young girl (a drawing of pink knickers). Each of 100 copies is signed and numbed in pencil by Armand. Fine.<BR><BR>
Clement Ferrand: Fonds Regional d'Art, 1993<BR> 30 x 21cm, 32pp. Card covers. Exhibition catalogue/artist’s book with 23 b/w and colour images of vocanic rocks used by Armand to be a metaphor for lust. VG+.<BR><BR>
Frankfurt am Main: Portikus, 1993 21 x 15cm, 24pp. Card covers. Artist’s book with an original text by Armand and a number of b/w images of girls or knickers of girls in toilets at well known art galleries. The frontispiece is an original black and pink and orange ink drawing of a detailed vagina with public hair which is signed by Armand. This is one of 33 signed and numbered copies in near fine condition. Clearly rare.
Calais: Musee des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, 1993 15 x 21cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for the opening event of the exhibition. VG+.
Champclause: Champclause D 422, n.d. (1993) 21 x 30cm, large format announcement card for a walk led by Gette in the Commune de Champclause. On the front "Un des amusements de la naiade" a "Zingg diagram" a form of graph showing the distribution of sizes of pebbles found between la Gagne to the Pandraux. Some bumping and a small tear at the top right and a mailed example with stamp, franking and address label else VG.
Freiburg: Institut Francais Freiburg, 1993 15.6 x 12cm, 20pp plus card covers and printed dustjacket. Four b/w images of the artist and female forms interacting with applied flowers or in a bath or basin as well as a reproduced b/w lithograph. Texts in German. VG+.