TANDORI DEZSÓ, instructions for hanging, 2004
29.7 x 21 cm, 2 parts
type written texts
signed
inv.TDez 000-pr
Born in Budapest in 1938 [died in 2019], Dezsö Tandori is a novelist, playwright, translator, and graphic artist, as well as one of Hungary’s most celebrated poets. Brilliantly eccentric, and characterized by an astonishing formal dexterity, these poems address fundamental issues: the effort to establish personal identity in an impersonal world, the conflicting demands — private, social, and historical — that provide the texture of a lived moment, and the necessity of affirmation that finds its locus in the act of writing.
Princeton University Press
TANDORI DEZSÖ, The Agnostic Extentialist, 2004
A4
type written letter, 2 additions with drawings, 5 parts
comes in envelope
inv.TDez 000-pr
Born in Budapest in 1938 [died in 2019], Dezsö Tandori is a novelist, playwright, translator, and graphic artist, as well as one of Hungary’s most celebrated poets. Brilliantly eccentric, and characterized by an astonishing formal dexterity, these poems address fundamental issues: the effort to establish personal identity in an impersonal world, the conflicting demands — private, social, and historical — that provide the texture of a lived moment, and the necessity of affirmation that finds its locus in the act of writing.
Ref. Princeton University Press
RAÚL MARROQUIN, Changing Personalities, 1974
13,5 x 10,5 cm
artist’s book, in print dedicated to Ulises Carrión, 28 pp.
edition 1000
published by Mad Enterprizes Inc., Maastricht, Netherlands
condition: slightly discoloured
€ 50,- plus € 10,- registered mail Track & Trace
ULISES CARRIÓN, Other Books, exhibition catalogue with list of artist’s books, 1980
29,7 x 21 cm, 4 sheets
8 pp., original photo copy printing, stapled, folded as mailed
published by Nylistasafnid / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
very good condition rare
€ 600,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.UCarr 824
Ref.
Ulises Carrión, Bookshow, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland, 1980
ULISES CARRIÓN, Bókasyning / Bookshow, 1980
12 x 17.3 cm
invitation card
Nylistasafnid / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
stamp ink and wear at right top corner caused by mailing
rare
€ 300,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.UCarr 823
“This exhibition includes books by more than one hundred artists from 25 countries. Except for a special Icelandic section asembled [sic] by Árni Ingólfsson, they all come from the Other Books and So Archive of Amsterdam.
Although varying in origin scope, and intentions, all the books in this show are outstanding examples of ‘book art’ – each one of them was conceived as an autonomous art work.
Whether by means of typography, photography, handwriting, photocopy or drawing, they subvert our age old understanding of books and open up new hopes for the book’s significance in an era of multimedia communication. U. Carrión.”
See: ULISES CARRIÓN, Other Books, exhibition leaflet with list of artist’s books.
JEAN-MARIE FAHY, Just visiting, 2019
29,7 x 21 cm
offset, artist’s book, 166 pp.
edition 550
2 versions: one with original print on foil and one without foil / signed
published by the artist
The artist’s book “Just visiting” is about conversations Jean-Marie Fahy mainly had on Grindr and Tinder, and was made after various trips between Lebanon and Israel-Palestine. Also meetings with boys in museums, pubs and on terraces have been recorded or transcripted. The first page of the book leaves no doubt about the core of the conversations: ‘Fuck capitalism and straightism (and soberism)’.
«The Middle East. It’s the Middle for who ? The people of the East and for the people of the West? It’s a frustration. It’s always problematic. The three concepts are pro- blematic, so whatever you say, it’s wrong. So let’s just say nowhere’s land.»
Each year, the city of Geneva in Switzerland invite artists from Geneva to apply for one of the bursaries offered by the Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier and Galland Funds of the City of Geneva. Jean-Marie Fahy was chosen as winner of the Bourses de la Ville de Genève 2019 of Applied Arts and Coline Mir as winner in the Visual Arts.
One copy is still sealed and comes with a screen print on foil, the other one has been opened and is signed with felt pen ink.
STEFAN BRÜGGEMANN, Showtitles, 2016
7,3 x 14,2 x 1,8 cm
offset, printing on book edges, SC, 160 pp.
edition 700
published by Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
Showtitles is an ongoing work by Stefan Brüggemann of titles for exhibitions. They may be used freely by others. There is no need for any authorization, but their use must be credited to Stefan Brüggemann (show title, #XXXX by Stefan Brüggemann) on the back of the invitation. Please send a copy of the invitation card and any printed material to the address specified on the website www.showtitles.com.
CORINNE VIONNET, Souvenirs d’un glacier, 2019
22 x 33 cm
offset, cover and pages of thick cardboard, 12 pp.
Lumbeck binding
edition 200
published by RRose Editions, Paris, France
Over the years, Corinne Vionnet has collected postcards of the Rhône glacier, spanning almost of century of images. The pictures have all been shot from the same perspective, from an “ideal” spot that reveals the glacier in its archetypal form and the roads that takes visitors there – as is often the case with touristic attractions. It is a pattern of repetition and superposition that Corinne Vionnet explored for instance in her Photo Opportunities series.
MARLENE DUMAS, Strips – No interviews please, 1987
31 x 23 cm
artist’s book, offset, spiral binding, 40 pp.
limited and small edition
published by Stichting één op één, Amsterdam
condition: good, light foxing at top part of cover
€ 295,- plus € 18,- registered mail
inv.MDum 861
History of prices:
Antiuariaat Digitalis, Amsterdam November 2022 € 485,-
Walgenbach, Rotterdam 16 September 2021 € 385,-
Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam, 3 November 2019 € 2.500,-
Catawiki-DavidCZ, 6 January 2016 € 748,- (hammer price)
GERWALD ROCKENSCHAUB, Paintings 1984-86, 1988
catalogue with 13 colour reproductions + CV
offset print, plastic pin binder
13,4 x 13,5 cm
published by Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
used, even as such extremely rare
sold
This booklet is definitely an artist’s edition. At least, this catalogue has that feel with its series of solely graphical images. An ultra short CV at the end of the booklet is a kind of spoiler. Gallerist Anders Tornberg worked closely together with artists like Gerald Rockenschaub. Hence Rockenschaub made the design for this publication and agreed on having a CV included.
Gerwald Rockenschaub is painter, techno artist and DJ. He is known for his geometrical and constructed oil paintings and sculptures of the early 1980s, being part of the Neo-Geo movement. In 1985 he made a similar painting (30 x 20 cm) with a white on black Neo-Geo lettering of which the first letter of his initials is mirrored.
