Photo: Laura Castro Caldas. Edition of 300.
Photo: Laura Castro Caldas. Edition of 300.
“This work is installed when Ricardo Valentim gives a toast in the bar of The Ritz Four Season Hotel Lisbon. As conditions permit.”
“If you love contemporary art, particularly conceptual art, this promises to be an unforgettable experience unlike anything else you will find in Lisbon. We will be visiting five locations in the colourful neighbourhood of Graça, located in the heart of the city, where I currently live. This is also where the acclaimed French artist Daniel Buren presented his famous artwork Affichages Sauvages in 1980. Though it is considered an important work within the history of contemporary art produced in Portugal, it is virtually unknown among broad audiences. When Buren came to Lisbon forty years ago, he pasted posters bearing his signature stripes on the tiled walls of several Graça buildings. On this guided visit, we will see the sites where these no longer extant works were originally located, followed by a private viewing of one of the actual posters at my place near the breathtaking Miradouro da Graça. Refreshments will be served.”
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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Kees van Bohemen and Arthur Spronken’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1968.
SM Cat. No 448 A+B.
Designed by Wim Crouwel.
*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.
Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Bissière at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 11 March–24 April, 1966.
SM Cat. No 392.
Designed by Wim Crouwel and Anneke Huig.
*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.
This book focuses on the extraordinary mythical traditions and ritual practices in a remote community in the Himalayan mountains, studied over a long period of field research by Michael Oppitz. It is the English version of his German original, first published in 1980 by Syndikat Verlag under the title Schamanen im Blinden Land, which has long since been out of print. That book came out in parallel to a film of the same name, today considered a classic. Now appearing in English as Shamans of the Blind Country. A picture book from the Himalaya the new version extends the old by more than a third of the original documentary photographs; it traces the historical changes that have transformed this mountainous region of Nepal over the last four decades in an extensive epilogue; and it suggests a wider context of ritual healing in the Himalaya by appending a selection of early pictures of shamanism in Siberia.