Italian sculptor, painter and poet, Fausto Melotti is considered a pioneer of Italian art and is acknowledged for his unique contribution to the development of mid-century European Modernism. Coming of age in prewar Milan, and living through the horrors of the Second World War, Melotti metabolized wartime devastation in his work by returning to Renaissance principles of harmony, order, geometry, and musical structure, which he integrated into a highly personal yet universally accessible artistic language that expresses the full range of emotional experiences in modern human existence.

Considered one of the founders of Conceptual art, Robert Barry was included—along with Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner—in both the 1969 “January” show organized by Seth Siegelaub and the first museum exhibition of this work, Information, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970.

Jack Smith presented his performance Irrational Landlordism of Bagdad as part of the Cologne Art Fair fringe in the summer of 1977. Many other events were documented photographically and can now be found in the Cologne Art Fair archives—not so Smith’s performance. This poster publication, edited by Michael Krebber, shows him in his fair stall and during his performance for the first time. The pictures are perfect documents of a completely eccentric transaction by this pioneering director and performance artist.

A brochure by Jean Claude Lefèvre, from “A presentation of the work of Cadere”, numbers 10, 22 and 40 of his book “André Cadere, histoire d’une travail” Herbert–Gewad ed. Gent 1982. 4, (25 June, 1982) June 25, 1983

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Joseph Kosuth 1965 & 1967. Protoinvestigations 1965 & The First Investigations 1967 at Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zürich, 1992.

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

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition No, Not That One It’s Not A Chair at Galerie 1900 2000, Paris, 1 January, 2000.

Curated by Elein Fleiss and featuring John M. Armleder, Richard Artschwager, Alan Belcher, Guillaume Bill, Marie Bourget, Philippe Cazal, Bill Culbert, Nancy Dwyer, Rainer Ganahl, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Thomas Grünfeld, Edward Kienholz, Bertrand Lavier, Louise Lawler, Ken Lum, Cady Noland, Jean-Luc Vilmouth.

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