Specific & General Works
Lawrence Weiner
Published by Le Nouveau Musée/Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, 1993, 734 pp. (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, French/English/German/Dutch/Greek/Italian/Japanese/Swedish
Price: €95

Conceived as the second edition to Weiner’s Works (1977), Specific & General Works presents a broad selection of purely textual works by Lawrence Weiner from 1968 to 1993.

Weiner’s body of work has at its core a fundamental questioning of the conventions of objecthood in relation to the producer and its viewer. He used language as the primary medium for his works since the late 1960s. Presented in capital letters, his structures consisting of language, or text fragments, often accompanied by graphic marks and lines, have been exhibited around the world and interpreted into numerous languages.

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Aanwezig/Afwezig
Barbara Bloom
Published by de Appel, Amsterdam, 1993, folded card in envelope with two aluminium tags, 15.3 × 10.7 cm, English
Price: €90 (Out of stock)

Memorial edition produced on the 10 year anniversary of the deaths of Wies Smals, Josine van Droffelaar, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Martin Barkhuis and Hendrik Smals in a plane crash.

“This is a facsimile of a small aluminum tag which reads ‘Aanwezig’ (Present) on one side, and ‘Afwezig’ (Absent) on the other. It was found at an airport for private planes in Holland in May of 1983. These tags hung on hooks under the names of pilots who frequented that airport, indicating their presence or absence. I was moved to take one, and have had it on my desk ever since.”

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

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Vocabulary... Vol 2
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Published by Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnei, Warsaw, 1993, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 11.6 × 16.5 cm, Polish / English
Price: €225 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition The Warsaw Suite at the Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnei, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, 12 March–25 April, 1993.

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

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Jimmie Durham
Published by M HKA, Antwerp, 1993, foldout poster / booklet (b/w ill.), 14.7 × 21 cm (folded) 42 × 29.5 cm (unfolded), English
Price: €25

A contribution from the original publication On Taking a Normal Situation and Retranslating it Into Overlapping and Multiple Readings of Conditions Past and present.

An exhibition devised by Yves Aupetitallot, Iwona Blazwick and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev within the framework of ANTWERP 93. Its title was inspired by Gordon Matta Clark who made one of his final works in the city, and which in turn led to the foundation of M HKA. In some ways the subject of this exhibition was ‘the exhibition’. What it proposed, however, was a new relation between structure, location, context, artist and audience.

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Kristján Guðmundsson
Published by Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 1993, 4 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, German
Price: €2

Kristján Guðmundsson (born 1941) is a contemporary Icelandic conceptual artist. He started his career as an artist in the 1960s as a member of SÚM – a group of young artists influenced by then-new currents in conceptual and installation art. Guðmundsson’s art reflects both prevailing traditions in late 20th century western art in general, and the dominance of abstract and conceptual art in the post-war art of Iceland in particular. He has said, “I am trying to work within the field of tension that exists between nothing and something”.

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Geometrija vremena—Kolaži 1993–1977
Mladen Stilinović
Published by Centar z akulturu i obrazovanje, Zagreb, 1993, 4 pages (b/w ill.), 16.5 × 23.5 cm, Croation
Price: €35

Produced on the occasion of Mladen Stilinović’s exhibition Geometrija vremena—Kolaži 1993-1977 (Geometry of Time: Collages 1993–1977) at Centar z akulturu i obrazovanje, Zagreb, 1993.

Mladen Stilinović frequently employed everyday materials in his work, bringing into focus the interconnection of politics, language, artistic production, and daily life. From 1975–79 he was a member of Zagreb’s Group of Six Artists. His work included drawings, collages, photographs, artist books, paintings, installations, actions, films, and video.

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