Monumenta 1987
Phillip King
Published by Openluchtmuseum Beeldhouwkunst, Middelheim, 1987, photograph (b/w ill.), 23.7 × 17.7 cm, English
Price: €8

Phillip King (born 1 May 1934) is a British sculptor, one of Anthony Caro’s best known students, their education followed similar trajectories and they both worked as assistants to Henry Moore. Following the “New Generation” show at the Whitechapel Gallery, both Caro and King were included in the seminal 1966 exhibit, “Primary Structures” at the Jewish Museum in New York.

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

#1987 #ephemera #phillipking
Inklusive: Franz Xaver Kroetz 1971
Christopher Williams
Published by Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, 2021, card (colour ill.), 21 × 14.7 cm, English
Price: €1

Card produced on the occasion of the publication and book launch for Christopher Williams publication Inklusive: Franz Xaver Kroetz 1971.

#2021 #christopherwilliams #ephemera
La Belle Versaillaise
Pierre Klossowski
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 1982, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, English
Price: €8 (Out of stock)

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
If Ur Reading This It’s 2 Late, Vol. 3
Tony Cokes
Published by Argos Editions, Brussels, 2020, 40 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 11 × 22 cm, English / Dutch / French
Price: €3

Produced on the occasion of If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late, Vol. 3, the first comprehensive solo exhibition by the American artist Tony Cokes in Belgium. In his work, Cokes brings together image, text and sound. This results in thought-provoking video art centered around questions of truth, social justice, and capitalism.

If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late, Vol. 3 shows Cokes’ works on pop and electronic music. The exhibition is named after a Drake mixtape, which underscores the ‘mixing’ in Cokes’ art. The artist does so by quoting various authors: from Aretha Franklin to Morrissey, from Malcolm X to Louis Althusser.

Available as a downloadable PDF here.

#2020 #argoseditions #ephemera #tonycokes
The Last Acts of Saint Fuckyou
Bern Porter
Published by Daisy editions, Lisbon/Paris & Christophe Daviet-Théry, Paris, 2021, 32 pages / foldout poster, 18.5 × 25.5 cm (folded), 51 × 72 cm (unfolded), English
Price: €12

A poem first published in 1975 by Bern Porter, presented in alphabetical order, with the same number of acts for each letter. This new edition presents an additional introduction, transcribed from a reading given by Bern Porter on May 19, 1985, in Madison, Maine.

Bern Porter (1911–2004) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the Mail Art and Found Poetry avant-garde art movements.

Edited by Alice Dusapin and designed by Robert Milne.

#2021 #alicedusapin #bernporter #christophedavietthery #concretepoetry #daisyeditions #ephemera #robertmilne
Jochen Lempert
Published by More Publishers, Brussels, 2012, double-sided offset print (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm (unfolded 84.1 × 59.5 cm), English
Price: €130

Produced by More Publishers as part of the Sunday series (#14). Signed and numbered edition of 100 (+7 A.P)

Jochen Lempert photographs the animal world in the most diverse contexts: from their natural habitat to the museum of natural history, from the zoo to the urban environment, in remote places or banal settings and situations. Lempert compiles his findings in a vast archive of images covering an ample spectrum, from common everyday views, to compositions that tend towards abstraction. This interest in the natural world as a subject has been further complemented by his exploration of the properties and materiality of the photographic image. Analogue, black and white, hand-printed in the darkroom, his photographs resist categorization and confront the canons of today’s aesthetic.

#2012 #artistedition #ephemera #jochenlempert #morepublishers