Koln: Galerie Heinz Holtman, 2014

15 x 10.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a retrospective show of artists affiliated with the Zero movement including Bernard Aubertin, Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Jean Tinguely, Gunter Uecker, Piero Dora-Zio, and Arman. Two works reproduced in colour on front and back, internally gallery details. VG+.

Zero,

55 x 37cm, 8pp (self-cover) a single number of the gallery newsletter released during the 35th Biennale of Venice and Art BAsel. Dedicated mostly to artists in the Zero Movement such as Mach, Uecker, Karl Pfaher, Thomas Lenk as well as Edgar Gutbub and Lambert Maria Wintersberger. B/w images throughout of works. Paper a tad browned after 50 years and punch-holes on the side from where the publication had been stored in a ring binder. Priced thus.

21 x 21cm, 6pp brochure for a portfolio of prints taken from the artist's 1967 project where he placed large scale sculptures in the desert in places where they would not easily be encountered. Two images in colour, one in b/w and a b/w portrait of the artist. Texts in English, German and French. Previously folded horizontally else vg.

First edition. 43 x 29cm, 44 pp plus outer cover. Stapled.  The catalogue for the exhibition of Dusseldorf Artists during the 1973 Edinburgh International Festival with original contributions by Beuys, Brecht, Filliou, Knoebel, Palermo, Polke, Richter, Rinke, Roth, Ruthenbeck, Spoerri, Walther and many others in this important vanguard publication.

The (unwieldy) title by Thomkins was chosen because of its palindromic character. 

Noted as an artist's book in both Polke's (nr 13) and Richter's catalogue raisonnes the truth is that neither had anything to do with the design of the publication which was entirely created locally from supplied photographs by an Edinburgh designer who worked for the printers, the Lutton Press - nonetheless this exhibition and publication is also notable for it being Beuys' first British exhibition. The cover of this publication is somewhat marked and browned with possible nascent foxing and the staples a little rusted but internally this is VG+.

A scarce document which was later reprinted by Demarco to try to cash in on its scarcity.

30 x 21cm, 1pp mimeographed leaflet with a text to promote the immediate publication of the second number of the NUL=0 journal. The short text is repeated are in Dutch, French, English and German as befit the international nature of the grouping.

Along the left side the leaflet lists the contents of the issue and the artists taking part  or who contributed to the journal . Folded for mailing with soft handling creases, otherwise fine.<br ><br>

30 x 21cm, 1pp mimeographed leaflet with a text to promote the immediate publication of the first numbers of the NUL=0 journal. The short text is repeated are in Dutch, French, English and German as befit the international nature of the grouping.

Along the left side the leaflet lists the contents of the issue and the artists taking part  or who contributed to the journal . This leaflet promoting nr 1 of the journal has a bookshop promotion rubber stamping in green at bottom right and is folded for mailing, otherwise fine.<br ><br>

15 x 10cm, 2pp printed black on tan card. The announcement card for the very first gallery exhibition of the newly collectivised German Zero Group where Mach, Piene and Uecker exhibited under that collaborative title for the first time - although all three artists had been working individually and together prior to that date. For example, Gunter Uecker had shown as a solo artist at the Galleria Azimuth in 1960 thanks to the personal intervention of Manzoni just prior to another solo exhibition in Schmela in 1960 also) but by 1961 Uecker was prepared to work under an agreed joint manifesto.

On this invited occasion (5 July 1961) Uecker elected to perform a street action where he painted the pavement of the Hunsreuckestrasse, outside the gallery, white in front of a small invited crowd of art lovers.

After this event Uecker became more committed to the group and introduced aspects of light and movement into his hitherto somewhat static nail works. Recto to this card is a rough typographic design and verso: gallery details overprinted in purple. The Schmela Gallery had simply over printed commercially purchased blank postcards with the exhibition design. A rare document in fine, never mailed state and an essential addition to any Zero collection.

80 x 20cm, black on white offset exhibition poster for this group show based on the monochrome, achromic and kenetic works of some of the most important of early 60s artists. This was one of the more important exhibitions of Zero (and allied artists) organised by Galerie d (formerly known as Dato). Folded into eight sections as issued otherwise fine.

Two volumes - all published - of this planned series of avant garde journals as edited by the team of Armando, Henk Peeters, Hans Sleutelaar Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager, Hans Verhage and Cherry Duyns.

Both volumes uniformly 20 x 12.4 cm, 180pp and 206pp respectively with pictorial card covers. Illustrated throughout in b/w with works and illustrations by the likes of Uecker and Klein as well as contributions by and on Armando, Sleutelaar Jan J. Schoonhoven, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Lucio Fontana, Arman, Soto, Heinz Mack, Henk Peeters, Kosice, Piero Manzoni, Getulio Alviani, Enrico Castellani, Hans Haacke and others with a particular attention paid to the activities of Gruppe Nul and Zero. Texts mostly in Dutch with some French and English translations in a special colour section at the back.

Both volumes have minor edge wear and yellowing to the laminated covers and some minor cracking to the spine but else VG+. Scarce as a set.

Price is for both volumes together.<br />

40 x 27cm, unpaginated (approx 32pp printed recto only). Card covers and tape bound. First edition of this book of poems which is illustrated by a single laid in foil stamped lithograph by Mack - a reflective flower - measuring 40 x 29cm although folded as issued. The lithograph is signed and dated in pencil by Mack. The book is one of 300 numbered examples. Fine lithograph in fine book.