28 Nov

Posted at 10:06h in DELUXE ARTIST’S BOOKS

Munich: Gina Kehayoff Verlag, 1994 24 x 14,5 cm, 88pp. card covers. Artist's book. Facsimiles of portraits of orphans published by the Red Cross in Germany after the war and distributed throughout Germany in order to find those portrayed any relatives that may have survived the war. The artist writes in a foreword that " we also we seek our parents". This copy is one of 77 hand numbered copies which has an original re-photographed advert from the original red cross poster which is signed and numbered in blue ink on the back also. Fine....

22 Nov

Posted at 23:05h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
17.5 x 14.5cm, 4pp light green outer folder with printed title. Internally a 17.5 x 14.5cm, 4pp sheet with two concrete poems left and right
The left poem repeats the word oval as a central spine to the work with the words leaf blue song pink foal grey on both sides with the letters emboldened to create a rough oval of the letters (see photograph). The right hand poem has the same physical structure but the words leaf blue song pink foal grey become the central spine of the design and the word oval is repeated above, below and on both sides.
This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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20 Nov

Posted at 21:24h in Jonathan Monk

Glasgow: Fuse Project, 1993
15.5 x 11 x 1cm, printed colour folder content of 40 different artist designed cards by those Glaswegian artists who had studios in the Fuse Project building in Bridgeton. The artists includes some very famous names - Martin Boyce, Douglas Gordon, Emma Kay, Ross Sinclair, Simon Starling and Monk. Each card was different but Monk has a self-portrait made up as Gene Simmons from Kiss in full make-up. A very early work by the artist. One additional card with background to the project. The cards are all in VG+ condition but the printed folder is a bit worn and aged. Rare.

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09 Nov

Posted at 14:04h in Artist's Books

Lenbachhaus: Stadtische Galerie, 1993
11 x 10.4cm, 40pp plus printed brown boards. Artist's book with drawings of wild flowers by Gary Hincks with their common name alongs side their scientific classification. A single text at the end of the book states:
Das Wort aus Stein: Wildflower. (Trans. The word of stone: WIldflower).
which may refer to the strength of such flowers (oft called weeds) in surviving.
JOINT WITH: 11 x 10.4cm, 12pp accordion folded insert. A textual commentary by Patrick Eyres.
Both one of 750 examples printed on the occasion of a German exhibition in Lenbachhaus. VG+.

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09 Jul

Posted at 14:44h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1993) 21 x 8cm, 4pp proposal by Finlay for a sculptural work to be built in Willam Shenstone's The Leasowes in the form of an artist card.
The internal drawing by Annet Stirling is of the proposed stone obelisk which bears a text "From this spot may be seen the works of Walter Somer's forgemasters inadvertent manufacturers of parts for the Iraqi super-gun. Citius elephantem subala celes - sooner could you hide an elephant under your armpit".

This is unusually a political work by Finlay - Sadam Hussain had attempted to build several super gun under the title of Project Babylon. The first gun had a bore of 350 mm (13.8 inches), and a barrel length of 46 metres (151 feet). Finlay wanted the work to be build in the grounds of the house near Halesowen. VG+. ...

28 May

Posted at 17:49h in UNIQUE WORKS

39 x 59 cm unique collage/appropriation comprising a vintage magazine cover from Signal Magazine mounted on cardboard and placed in a glass and wooden frame - the work is signed 'C. Boltanski' on the label on the back of the 40.5 x 60.5 cm frame which is also the dated, numbered and inscribed '1993, 4/16 (Unikat) Collage Jahresausgabe des Museumvereins Mönchengladbach 1993' . Each of the 16 issued works was unique with a different cover from Signals Magazine - the war time magazine had interested Boltanski for a long period because in part of the day to day activities to be found in the illustrations - belying the conflict that was happening throughout Europe....

13 May

Posted at 13:20h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
17.4 x 9cm, 12pp plus card covers and printed dustjacket. Artist's book which is another of Finlay's inventive poetry formats. Here "corners" refers to poems where part of the word is on one side of a corner (here represented by the page end) and concluded on the other. The first part of the word gives on meaning and when completed by the second part the word has new meaning (sometimes related to the firs to create a new visual poem). For instance:

DAIS
Y

The 'Dais' refers to a sculptural platform, when completed the 'Daisy' creates a poetic view of the flower where the flower head is placed on the dais of the stem.
One of the corner poems was also published as a book mark by Finlay (Windflow/er) and can be found elsewhere on this site.

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25 Apr

Posted at 11:56h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Monchengladbach: Stadtischen Museum Abteiberg Monchengladbach, 1993
21 x 14cm, 96pp plus original typographic card covers. Artist's book listing the acquisitions by all of the art museums of the Rhineland during the years 1935 - 1945. The various museums included here have the artists and their works listed by alphabetic order. Some works are reproduced in b/w.
The decade chosen by Boltanski includes the pre-Nazi years until the end of the war and it is noticeable that there are few if any avant garde works purchased/acquired (the Nazis after all campaigned against "degenerate art" and this presumably was reflected in the acquisitions policy of the museums - most of the works are realistic landscapes and figurative portraits and statuary.
VG+. This example is signed by Boltanski on the first title page.

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04 Apr

Posted at 16:54h in DELUXE ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris, Yvon Lambert Editeur, 1993
Two part blue cardboard box with handwritten title label content of 19 sheets containing Lebensztejn's text "Une rêverie émanée de mes loisirs," each accompanied by an original line drawing by Boltanski on tracing paper.
Each text page is thus overlaid with a drawing; the lines, drawn in 5 color pencils, link letters in the text, with the combinations of letters forming quotations from 5 writers; a letterpress key to the drawings gives the quotations (from Tadeusz Kantor, Federico Fellini, Jacques Demy, the Talmud and Ingmar Bergman) in mirror writing. Each text sheet/drawing pair is enclosed in a green paper folder.
There is an introductory page and a colophon page as well as a sheet explaining the work with the key to the drawings.
Boltanski's intervention into the book finding hidden texts within the larger commentary.
Very good condition with some minor fading to the blue box but internally VG++. Scarce.
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13 Mar

Posted at 13:57h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
11.6 x 9.2cm, 16pp plus card covers and dust jacket with title label. A proposal for the Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh which consisted of seven bollards near a landscaped area each with two boat names and registration number etched on them one above the other to create seven short poems. Drawings by John Andrew and Gary Hincks. In the notes Finlay explains each poem and its Greek reference.

One sich poem is:

OLIVE
LEAF
BCK 210
SERENE
BF46

which creates an appeal for peace. Finlay notes a Shakespeare quotation "and peace proclaims olives of endless age".

VG+. ...

13 Mar

Posted at 12:59h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.
18 x 14cm, 4pp brown outer folder content of a 4pp insert with a poem by Finlay:

AUTUMN.

The woods
milestones

The mountains

signposts.

Finlay indicates how the distant hills act as means of orientating a traveller and the trees act as steps on the way in any rural journey. VG+.

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