Six separate numbers - a complete run (although Vostell did later add an exhibition catalogue and designate it as De/collage 7 despite it being somewhat different in content to these copies) of this assmblage/artist's journal that predated vTRE and other Fluxus related artist publications.

The collection here consists of:

Decoll/age 1

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): June 1962

26 x 22cm, 32pp double fold out pages plus card covers with folds. The first number of the series with original contributions by Arthur Köpcke, George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, Volf Vostell and others. Slight wear to the right hand side of the folded wrappers else VG+. 

Decoll/age 2

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): November 1962

30 x 21cm, 42pp plus paper wrappers. Internal pages are mimeographed and stapled. Edited by Dick Higgins - the whole consisting of his "The Broadway Opera" translated into German. The front cover is a b/w photograph of the poet/artist outside a German cinema. With original publisher's wrap-around band - which is torn but complete and with original scotch tape closure still there but the glue has lost its adhesion. Very rare number from the series especially with the band.

Inserted: subscription leaflet for Decoll/age 1 and 2.

Decoll/age 3

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): December 1962

27 x 21.8cm, unpaginated (108pp plus 12pp) and wrappers. Internal pages include a transparent sheet and several folders, stapled, blank cover, printed jacket. Contributions by C. Caspari, Christo, Jed Curtis, Henry Flint, Dick Higgins, Gyogy Ligetti, Nam June Paik, Jan Voss, Vostell, F. Mon, Pera, F. Crowbridge, JP Wilhelm. The internal sheets include various types of printing: offset, mimeograph, screen printing. Illustrated throughout. VG+ although some wear/minor emerging tears along spine of the wrappers. 

Decoll/age 4

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): January 1964

27 x 21.8cm, unpaginated (132pp) and wrappers. A "Special Happenings" number with contributions by  Georges Brecht, Stanley Brouwn (including his USE THIS BROUWN stamped paper bag stuck to the third blank page - a rare edition), Allan Kaprow, Higgins, Paik, Jean Jacques Lebel, Tomas Schmit, Claes Oldenburg, Al Hansen and others. Most pages are double folded.  Very scarce.

Decoll/age 5

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): February 1966

Happenings / Stücke / Partituren

28 x 23 x 4cm (approx) outer card portfolio. The most important of the  series with many object multiples and print editions included in the publication. This consists of 22 multiple-elements including the first ever object multiple by Joseph Beuys: "Zwei Fraulen mit lenchtendem Brot" consisting of a block of painted chocolate fixed on a strip of printed paper and tipped on scroll. Other works are by René Block, Claus Bremer, Henning Christiansen, Hans Joachim Dietrich, Ludwig Gosewitz, Dick Higgins, Bernhard Höke, Allan Kaprow, Franz Mon, Benjamin Patterson, Eckart Rahn, Gerhard Rühm, Vagelis Tsakiridis, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, ZAJ Group (which is signed). The Vostell work is a sealed sheet of printed paper with yellow dust/sand inside the sealed plastic and is complete and undamaged here. VG+ overall although the portfolio card folder is a little damaged as the internal uneven sheets have put pressure on the outer card. This is a scarce item to find in good condition and the Beuys contribution is particularly prized. 

Decoll/age 6

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): July 1967

29 x 21.7cm, unpaginated (174pp), plus card wrappers (reproducing the front page of Le Figaro from September 6, 1954). Texts in German and English. Contributions by Higgins, Maciunas, Vostell, Gustav Metzger, Milan Knizak, Vautier, Hansen, Kaprow, Paik, Franz Mon, Daniel Spoerri, Charlotte Moorman, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Alison Knowles. Also laid into the pages is the original multiple of Diter Rot "das Blaue Geheul" a hand written card. 

There are very few complete runs of this journal available online and this is the cheapest we know of.

30.9 x 20.3cm, 34pp plus card covers front and back with an original; screen printed cover in purple, gold and black by Jan Voss and Guido Biasi. A single number of this important artist's journal with reproductions of paintings by Cy Twombly,  Christo, original screenprints by Lourdes Castro, and Paul Wunderlich, and texts by Guido Biasi, Benjamin Patterson, Jan Voss, Guido Biasi, George Noël, Carl László, François Dufrêne, and Jean Jaques Levêque. There is also a tipped-in fold out serigraph by René Bertholo.  The KWY group were founded by Rene Bertholo and Lourdes Castro. The pages were originally perfect bound but as usual the glue has deteriorated after 60 years and the pages are mostly loose but complete and in very good condition. The yellow publisher's band is missing here as usual, priced thus to reflect the ned to reglue the binding.

56 x 43cm, 4pp. Tabloid format. Text and pictorial contributions from Brecht, Christo, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Daniel Spoerri, Tinguely, Ben Vautier, et. al. + found texts and images, as well as adverts for Fluxus events and products. Primarily designed under the direction of George Maciunas. Formerly folded (as usual) and some browning along folds and some edge damage but otherwise VG. Silverman No. 459. Now rare.

Two colour photographs - one 10.2 x 17.9cm and the other 10.1 x 25.5cm - both taken by the publisher Francesco Conz. The first photograph is of Ben Patterson relaxing with a drink in Conz's home and the other a photograph of a wall in Conz's home which is full of signed photographs of Fluxus artists who were friends with the publisher. VG+. <JOINT:<BR>

11 x 15cm, 1pp brown on cream compliments slip from the Archivio Francesco Conz. VG+.<BR>

These photographs were sent by Conz to Jan van Tooren the publisher of Slow Scan Editions. <BR><BR>

15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a series of public events and an exhibiton by Patterson with some Fluxus friends (Eric Andersen, Willem de Ridder, Geoff Hendricks, Ann Noel and others. Mostly typographic,. VG+.

44 x 33 x 10 cm, leather briefcase with carious documents internally. This ornate object multiple is designed to take all of the effort out of illegal dealings and money laundering - the case (which would be useful for filling with cash) contains a Zurich letter box address and new alias for the owner in a sealed envelope, an original editioned  card with Patterson's portrait photo by Rainer Schmidt and a leather suitcase tag with label which is signed and numbered by Patterson in an edition of only 33 copies.

Patterson suggests this is a 'performance score' to be completed by the owner. So now you have an excuse for your illegal money laundering activities - it is ART.

The number that opens the case corresponds to the copy number of the edition.

All elements fine in like case. Purchasers should send us 10% of all income from the use of this item else we will grass you up.

This is one of 20 signed and numbered copies of the deluxe edition (the wider release did not have the seven original paintings. This copy has a short personal dedication by the artist "for Peter Wetzl". 

This is VG+ in like binding. Scarce later Fluxus edition.