The Mystic Eyes
Betye Saar
Published by Museum Ludwig, Köln, 2021, card (colour & b/w ill.), 14.7 × 21 cm, German
Price: €1

Promotional flyer for the edition The Mystic Eyes by Betye Saar, produced on the occasion of Saar being awarded the 2020 Wolf­gang Hahn Prize at the Museum Ludwig, Köln.

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

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DEAD SOULS WHISPER (1986–1993)
Derek Jarman
Published by Centre D’art Contemporain D’ivry, Le Crédac, 2021, folded pamphlet (colour & b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm (folded) 15 × 51 cm (unfolded), French
Price: €3

The artist, filmmaker, writer, musician and gay rights activist Derek Jarman (1942–1994) powerfully marked twentieth-century British culture. This exhibition, with some seventy works, highlights his practice as a painter and assemblagist. It focuses on the last part of his life, starting at the time of his HIV-positive diagnosis. This period coincides with the creation of his legendary garden Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent, whose cultivation was both a form of therapy and a metaphor for his own survival.

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Guitar Multiple FS 164
John Armleder
Published by John Gibson Gallery, New York, 1987, card (colour ill.), 10.7 × 15 cm, English
Price: €15

Promotional card for John Armleder’s edition Guitar Multiple (FS 164), produced by John Gibson Gallery, 1987.

Co-founder of the Ecart Group (1969) and closely affiliated with the Fluxus movement, visual artist John Armleder has since the end of the 1960’s created a polymorphic body of work which encompasses performance, drawings, sculptures and paintings.

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Vincent Fecteau
Published by Fridericianum, Kassel, 2021, 20 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English / German
Price: €4

Exhibition guide produced on the occasion of the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany dedicated to Vincent Fecteau, at Fridericianum, Kassel, 3 April–5 September, 2021. Encompassing more than sixty selected works created between 1993 and 2020, the show provided a comprehensive overview of Fecteau’s oeuvre.

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Ten Kinds Of Memory And Memory Itself
Richard Tuttle
Published by Kolumba Museum, Köln, 2020, card (colour ill.), 10.4 × 14.1 cm, German
Price: €2 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Richard Tuttle’s participation in the group exhibition Das kleine Spiel zwischen dem Ich und dem Mir – Kunst und Choreografie at Kolumba Museum, Köln.

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A Balancing Act
Christian Philipp Müller
Published by documenta, Kassel, 1997, foldout pamphlet (b/w ill.), 10 × 21 cm (folded), German / English
Price: €12

Produced on the occasion of Christian Philipp Müller’s participation in documenta X in 1997, where he presented A Balancing Act, which took as its point of departure Joseph Beuys’ 7000 Oaks and Walter de Maria’s Vertical Earth Kilometer.

Christian Philipp Müller is a Berlin-based Swiss conceptual artist whose practice examines a range of issues from social and aesthetic concerns to design, national histories, and the institutional framing of culture. His projects are usually collaborative, interdisciplinary, and site-specific.

You can read more on the work (from October Vol. 82 (Autumn, 1997) here.

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