DEAD SOULS WHISPER (1986–1993)
Derek Jarman
Published by Centre D’art Contemporain D’ivry, Le Crédac, 2021, folded pamphlet (colour & b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm (folded) 15 × 51 cm (unfolded), French
Price: €3

The artist, filmmaker, writer, musician and gay rights activist Derek Jarman (1942–1994) powerfully marked twentieth-century British culture. This exhibition, with some seventy works, highlights his practice as a painter and assemblagist. It focuses on the last part of his life, starting at the time of his HIV-positive diagnosis. This period coincides with the creation of his legendary garden Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent, whose cultivation was both a form of therapy and a metaphor for his own survival.

#2021 #derekjarman #ephemera
Evil Queen, The Last Paintings
Derek Jarman
Published by Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1994, 42 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 20 cm, English
Price: €22 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Evil Queen by Derek Jarman at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1994.

Artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s last set of 17 paintings are a powerful testimony to the way he dealt with his HIV status, his sexuality, with homophobia in the press and their manipulation of the AIDS epidemic, and to his confrontation with his own mortality.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1994 #derekjarman #painting
Décor de la Vie
ABR Stuttgart
Published by Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 1986, 62 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20.4 × 24.4 cm, German
Price: €24 (Out of stock)

ABR Stuttgart emerged in 1983 from the archive of founders René Straub, Ulrich Bernhardt, Gerrit Hoogerbeets and Harrry Walter.

Décor de la Vie, was produced in 1986 by the Württembergischer Kunstverein for the first solo exhibition in a public institution of ABR Stuttgart. The book contains an overview of previous activities and also includes work that can be assigned to Gerrit Hoogerbeets or René Straub. In the exhibition, these pieces were presented, wrapped in bubble film, leaning against the wall as if they had been decommissioned.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1986 #abrstuttgart
Massastaking: partij en vakbonden
Rosa Luxemburg
Published by Sun, Nijmegen, 1971, 121 pages, 15.2 × 21.7 cm, Dutch
Price: €15

Dutch translation of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions originally printed in 1906. With cover artwork by Gerd Arntz.

#1971 #gerdarntz #rosaluxemburg #sunnijmegen
Guitar Multiple FS 164
John Armleder
Published by John Gibson Gallery, New York, 1987, card (colour ill.), 10.7 × 15 cm, English
Price: €15

Promotional card for John Armleder’s edition Guitar Multiple (FS 164), produced by John Gibson Gallery, 1987.

Co-founder of the Ecart Group (1969) and closely affiliated with the Fluxus movement, visual artist John Armleder has since the end of the 1960’s created a polymorphic body of work which encompasses performance, drawings, sculptures and paintings.

#1987 #ephemera #johnarmleder
Jannis Kounellis
Published by by Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya, 1987, 54 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Japanese
Price: €32

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Jannis Kounellis at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya, 6 June–31 July, 1987.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1987 #janniskounellis