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THE LOVERS: THE GREAT WALL WALK. 1989.

paul robertson — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:01:37 +0000

Amsterdam/Montreal: Stedelijk Museum/Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, 1989

30 x 21cm, 204pp plus wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a travelling exhibition which relates the mythical walk taken by the two lovers who starting at opposite ends of the wall met in the middle, embraced and ended their relationship there and then. Illustrated throughout. VG+

LAID IN:

Two separate 30 x 21cm, 6pp Museum handouts with texts in French in one and English in the other as issued in the Montreal stage of the show. Fine.

INTIMACY. 2020. SILVER EDITION: ONE OF 25 BOXES.

paul robertson — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:25:00 +0000

Amsterdam: CultClub Editions, 2020 32 x 23 x 5cm red cardboard clamshell box content of c. 60 unnumbered and unbound sheets including one object multiple (a plastic bottle with printed label). Silver ribbon. A supposed "exhibition in a box" with reproduced and original contributions by Tinkerbell, Marina Abramovic, Ay-o, Matthew Barney, Tracey Emin, Valie Export, AL Hansen, ALison Knowles, Shigeko Kubota, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Pieter Mol, Charlotte Moorman and NAm June Paik, Otto Muehl, Orlan, Willem De Ridder, Niki de Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, AndresSerrano, Annie Sprinkle, Ulay, Ben Vautier and others. The plastic bottle (meant to contain sanitiser gel) is by Marco Tiberio. One of 25 "silver" examples which were announced as being numbered but we cannot find any numbering in the box. Near fine.

RELAZIONE NELLO SPAZIO. 1976. PERFORMANCE AT THE BIENNALE DI VENEZIA.

paul robertson — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:49:36 +0000

Venice: Biennale di Venezia, 1978/1979 Two sheets - one 30 x 21cm, 1pp with a text explaining the work where Ulay and Abramovic (both naked) ran into each other repeatedly for an hour and noting the performance later being shown as a 58 minute video work. JOINT: 21 x 390cm, 2pp leaflet printed black on cream showing one full sheet still-photograph from the work and another from an installation at "De Appel" in Amsterdam in 1979. Both VG+. Scarce.

MISIKALISCHE AKTTION SCHARLATAN SEXTETT. 1978. ANNOUNCEMENT BROCHURE WHICH INCLUDES PERFORMANCE 3 BY ULAY & ABRAMOVIC.

paul robertson — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:42:56 +0000

Weisbaden: Neue Arbeiten Zeigen, 1978. 30 x 21cm, 4pp brochure printed blue on white - with a full page advert for a jazz concert with Corsin Fontana, Niggi Hasenbohler, Also Solari, Werner Lehmann, Lukas Moeschlin and Alberto Rainolter on the front, internally images of an exhibition by Fonata, Bohler and Solari. On the back sheet however there is an announcement for Performance 3 by Ulay and Abromovic with a photograph of the two artists trying to crawl near a venomous snake. Folded for storage and with 6 punched holes on the left for storage else VG.

NIGHTSEA CROSSING. 1984.

paul robertson — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:27:55 +0000

Gent: Hedendaagse Kunst, 1984 22 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for one of a series of performances by Ulay and Abramovic where the artists sat opposite each other at a long table for long periods. Later variations on this work included other artists. One portrait of the two artists in in the museum in b/w on the front, verso gallery details. One slight bump at the bottom of the card else VG+.

ULAY / MARINA ABRAMOVIC MARINA ABRAMOVIC / ULAY PERFORMANCE. 1979.

paul robertson — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:58:37 +0000

Wiesbaden: Harlekin Art, 1979 30 x 21cm, 4pp. Announcement for an exhibition of films and performance by Ulay and Abramovic. A text in German is joined with two b/w images, one of Performance 8 (where the artsts' hair was braided together) and an unidentified (by us) work. Previously folded for storage and with 6 punched holes on the left of the sheet for a ring binder else VG. Scarce. erforation holes for ringbinder.

INSTALLATION TWO. 1976.

paul robertson — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:58:04 +0000

Wiesbaden: Harlekin Art, 1976 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a performance by Ulay and Abramovic where they hugged naked in the gallery. One b/w image of the artists on the front, verso gallery details. A hand addressed mailed example with stamp and frank. VG+. Scarce ephemera.

RELATION DANS LE MOUVEMENT. 1977.

paul robertson — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:53:15 +0000

Geneva: Galerie Marika Malacorda, 1977 10.5 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card for a performance by Ulay and Abramovic during the Biennale de Paris where Ulay drove a small Citroen bus (that the lovers had been living in) round and round inside the building and Abramovic held a megaphone out of one of the windows where she would call out the laps. After around 16 hours the bus stopped working and the artists took it out of the space. The oil and the tyre marks were left to be displayed in the building for the rest of the installation. Two b/w images of the bus circling and a time-lapse image that shows only the lights of the bus on repeated laps taken by Harmut Kowalke. Internally and on the back gallery details. VG+. Scarce.

A COLLECTION OF 13 LIMITED EDITION POSTCARDS OF PERFORMANCES & INSTALLATIONS. 1994/5.

paul robertson — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:53:48 +0000

Amsterdam: Art Unlimited, 1994/5 Thirteen different, 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcards, twelve of which have a b/w image from an installation or performance on the front and one in colour shows "the Magic Mountain" work in full colour. Verso are details of each work. They included: Talking about simularity Relation in movement Rest Energy Kaiserschnitt AAA Light/Dark Imponderabilia Incision Relation in Movement (2) Untitled Relation in Time Relation in Space and Magic Mountain. All are in VG+ condition and price is for all as a group.

ULAY. 1995.

paul robertson — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:42:28 +0000

Antwerpen: Carine Campo Gallery, 1995 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a design on the front of a stylised camera over a blue barred rectangle and verso gallery details. VG+.

DAS SOFORTBILD POLAROID. 1977.

paul robertson — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:55:45 +0000

Bern: Der Lowe, 1977

19 x 14.5cm, 128pp. plus card covers. Considerations on the use of the Polaroid in contemporary art including many images by Hamilton, Dahn, Werden, Peiffer, Baldessari, Bank, Duchow, Bonvie, Cosindas, Warhol, Polk, Kayser, Blume, Vogt, Les Krims, Kracht, Meier, Evans, Minkoff, Samaras, Pas, Anderson, Klauke, Bohmert-Obalski, Gebert, Ulay, Matt, Sauerbier, Katase, Gerz and others in b/w and colour. Vg.

THE CLEANER. REPERFORMANCES AND PARTICIPATORY WORKS. 2018.

paul robertson — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:42:54 +0000

Bonn: Bonn Byndeskunsthalle, 2018 21 x 10cm, 12pp single folded sheet, museum brochure and poster which opens out to nine full colour images of Abramovic (and Ulay) public performances which were to be recreated during the major Bonn retrospective. Texts in German and English. Fine.