Les Portes (card)
Marcel Broodthaers
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, date unknown, card (colour & b/w ill.), 10.5 × 14.8 cm, English
Price: €12

Marcel Broodthaers worked primarily as a poet until 1963, when for the last twelve years of his life he made a richly varied, elusive, and influential body of work. The work he created in this albeit too brief time period was enormously influential to future generations of artists. Known for his associations in which he explores the nature and meaning of language, word and image, and rhetoric, his work encompasses poetry, writing, books, film, photography, slides, drawing, painting, and sculpture.

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

#ephemera #marcelbroodthaers
Husband (card)
Sophie Calle
Published by pOI DOi, Paris, 2003, card (b/w ill.), 10 × 14.9 cm, English
Price: €12

Part of a large cycle comprised of different series of polyptychs with the subject matter of marble graves without any reference to dates, places or names, Sophie Calle encourages a reflection on those relationships that, in their presence or absence, define each person’s identity. Even though anonymous, each tomb in the series contains a real body that was once a person and remains alive as a memory and as a site allowing the opportunity to worship that memory by the survivors.

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

#2003 #ephemera #sophiecalle
La Belle Versaillaise
Pierre Klossowski
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 1982, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, English
Price: €10

Produced on the occasion of documenta 7, 19 June–28 September, 1982.

Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. A prolific late in life artist who was internationally acclaimed for his writings and translations on Sadeian erotic expression, Klossowski is a pivotal yet underrepresented figure in the history of 20th-century art, often overshadowed by his earlier literary work and his younger brother, Balthus. Primarily working with pencil and charcoal, the laborious drawings he produced reference a variety of subjects, including Greek mythology, Sadean decadence, medieval fantasy and sexualized scenarios involving a recurring female figure, Roberte. These imagined scenes depict a perplexing and intriguing array of mature, familiar and fantastical situations involving cartoonish human figures set in fictitious landscapes that uniquely relate back to the dystopic realities he creates.

#1982 #ephemera #pierreklossowski
You thrive on mistaken identity (card)
Barbara Kruger
Published by Fotofolio, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 11 × 15.5 cm, English
Price: €18

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is recognized for her iconic collaged black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions. These phrases paired with such pronouns as “you,” “your, “I,” “we,” and “they,” address cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Kruger utilizies mass communication and advertising techniques to explore these issues and is aligned with with such feminist post modern artists as Jenny Holzer and Sherrie Levine who implement similar techniques.

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

#barbarakruger #ephemera #picturesgeneration
Your life is a perpetual insomnia (card)
Barbara Kruger
Published by Fotofolio, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 11 × 15.5 cm, English
Price: €18 (Out of stock)

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is recognized for her iconic collaged black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions. These phrases paired with such pronouns as “you,” “your, “I,” “we,” and “they,” address cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Kruger utilizies mass communication and advertising techniques to explore these issues and is aligned with with such feminist post modern artists as Jenny Holzer and Sherrie Levine who implement similar techniques.

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

#barbarakruger #ephemera #picturesgeneration
We will undo you (card)
Barbara Kruger
Published by Fotofolio, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 11 × 15.5 cm, English
Price: €18

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is recognized for her iconic collaged black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions. These phrases paired with such pronouns as “you,” “your, “I,” “we,” and “they,” address cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Kruger utilizies mass communication and advertising techniques to explore these issues and is aligned with with such feminist post modern artists as Jenny Holzer and Sherrie Levine who implement similar techniques.

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

#barbarakruger #ephemera #picturesgeneration