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PLUTONIUM. 2003.

paul robertson — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 11:09:54 +0000

d'Indre-el-Loire:CCC, 2004 42 x 30, 4pp (printed one side only) announcement broadside for a solo show. One large b/w self-portrait of the artist and museum details. Folded twise for storage else VG.

STUDIO INTERNATIONAL VOLUME 192 NR 982. 1976. SPECIAL NUMBER ON PERFORMANCE ART.

paul robertson — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:23:35 +0000

London: Studio International, 1976 30 x 21cm, 98pp + adverts plus card covers. A single number of this long running art journal here the important special issue on the theme of performance art. This has articles by Caroline Tisdall on Beuys' Coyote aktion in New York and Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson ("Sleasy")'s important essay Annihilating Reality as well as Mark Segal on Yvonne Rainer and Katia Tsiakma on Hermann Nitsch and Douglas Crimp on Joan Jonas as well as an interview with Klaus Rinke. There are also surveys of performance art in Germany and Holland. B/w images throughout. This is a keenly sought number from the journal but is in below average condition - long tears on the spine and the pages are a little loose but all are present and corners a bit bumped - but this would be double in price if in vg condition. Priced thus.

STELLUNGNAHME. 1979. SIGNED BY BEUYS.

paul robertson — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:24:36 +0000

Bonn: Bonner Kunstverein, 1979 60 x 42cm, red and grey on white offset lithographic exhibition poster for a group show which included Beuys. This poster has a typographic design that simply lists the participating artists including Blume, Brehmer, Brock, Fischer, Gerz, Herzfeld, RInke, Rosenbach, Ruthenbeck, Schmit, Staeck, Ulrichs, Vostell, Walther and others. Beuys has signed this poster in pencil. VG+.

TOKYO BIENNALE ‘70. 1970. FIRST JAPANESE CONCEPTUAL/MINIMALIST ART EXHIBITION

paul robertson — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:25:52 +0000

Tokyo: Tokyo Biennale, 1970 45 x 41cm, 1pp. Promotional poster with works by Albrecht d/ Buren, Christo, Dibbets, Flanagan, On Kawara, Lewitt, Metz, Nauman, Panamarenko, Penone, Rinke, Serra, Sonnier and others. Some works reproduced in b/w. A folded example with some browning around the folds else vg. This exhibition is usually regarded as the first conceptual art/minimalist show in Japan. The catalogue for this show is onsite elsewhere for at least 2,000 dollars.

DIE VIERTE KRAFT. 2019.

paul robertson — Mon, 02 May 2022 08:33:49 +0000

Duisberg: Museum Kuppersmuhle, 2019 21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card with one abstract painting of a horse or bull on the front, internally gallery details. VG+.

EDITION TANGENTE MULTIPLES. 1970. POSTER.

paul robertson — Sun, 01 May 2022 11:10:59 +0000

heidelberg: Edition Tangente, 1971 60 x 42cm, 1pp publisher's promotional poster for a number of different editions issued in 1970 by Beuys, Christo, Roth, Filliou, Staeck, Rinke, Uecker, Distel, Thomkins, Weseler, Polke and Sporri. Each work is described and illustrated in b/w. Folded for storage and with punched holes to allow to be put in a ring binder. Priced thus.

FERNOST/FAR EAST. 1970.

paul robertson — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:02:10 +0000

Dusseldorf: Galerie Konrad Fischer, 1970

10.5 x 14.5cm, 2pp. Announcement card for this early exhibition of the joint work between the two artists. On the front is a reproduced b/w image of the two artists posing in an Asian garden - the pose today would be regarded as racist as the artists are pulling their eyes to mock the Asian eye shape. VG+.

STRATEGY GET ARTS. 1970. FIRST EDITION.

paul robertson — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:01:36 +0000

Edinburgh: Demarco Gallery, 1970

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.

ENVIRONMENTS. 1968. ELECTRONIC GAME AS CATALOGUE.

paul robertson — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:38:14 +0000

Utrecht: Stadium Generale Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, 1968 30 x 21 x 3cm, two part printed cardboard box content of a battery powered electronic game designed by Swip Stolk as the exhibition catalogue for a group exhibition. The box contains two questions and answer sheets, a moveable wheel with information about the artists and a 30 x 21cm, 36pp catalogue. The purpose of the game was to link by a buzzer the artist and the work. Artists included: Gianni Colombo, GRAV / Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, Adolf Luther, Christian Megert, Pieter Engels, Event Structure Research Group, Karl Gerstner, Boezem, Hans Koetsier, Konrad Lueg, Lutz Moomartz, Klaus Rinke, Swip Stolk and Peter Struycken. The battery power has long declined after 50 years but else the box appears to be in working condition. One corner of the box has a clear tear down the fold else all is VG with a little grubbiness on the lid.

VERSLAG SONSBEEK 71. 1971. ONE OF ONLY 250 EXAMPLES.

paul robertson — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 11:02:18 +0000

Arnhem, Selbstverlag Park Sonsbeek, 1971 30 x 21cm, c. 180pp. Original card covers. The report on the annual sculpture and art festival which consists mostly of various texts, facsimiles of letters, newspaper articles concerning the exhibition. Mentioned are Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Andre, Artschwager, Beuys, Stanley Brouwn, Buren, Christo, Darboven, Ad Dekkers, Dibbets, Flanagan, Dan Graham, Mike Heizer, Huebler, Judd, Kawara, Knoebel, LeWitt, Walter de Maria, Mario Merz, Nauman, Oldenburg, Paik, Panamarenko, Rinke, Roehr, Ruscha, Sandbeck, Serra, Snelson and others. This is ver scarce document which was sent only to participants and some art figures. It was printed in only 250 copies. VG+.

KLAUS RINKE. 1973.

paul robertson — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:59:59 +0000

Sao Paolo: Bienal de Sao Paulo, 1973 30 x 21cm, unpaginated (c. 96pp) plus card covers. Exbition catalogue for a retrospective of the conceptual works by Rinke - numberous b/w reproductions of works and photographs of body performances by the german. Fine. Scarce.

PROFIL 3. 1979. ONE OF ONLY 50 NUMBERED COPIES – SIGNED BY ALL ARTISTS

paul robertson — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 20:26:11 +0000

Dusseldorf: Profil, 1979 30 x 21cm, unpaginated,. Original photographic wrappers. A single number of this German conceptual art magazine with articles on and by Volker Döhn, Gabriella Fekete, Johannes Kuhnen,Wolfgang Lenser, Ine Tack, Horst Tress, Dagmar Triet and Klaus Rinke. Illustrated in b/w throughout. This is one of ONLY 50 numbered copies aside from the larger issue of 500 which is signed on each contribution by von Döhne, Fekete, Kuhnen, Rinke, Tack, Tress and Triet. Rinke's contribution is a full page "broken music" score. Very good +. Very scarce indeed.