Je nose pas
Henri Chopin
Published by Guy Schraenen Editeur, Antwerp, 1974, card (colour & b/w ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, French
Price: €20

One of fifteen contributions from the postcard portfolio 15 CARTES POSTALE published by Guy Schraenen.

Henri Chopin was a little-known but significant figure of the French and British concrete poetry and lettrist movements. A curator, editor, musician and poet, he worked in a variety of materials, although his most notable works take the form of typewriter poems, each unique and influenced by the artist’s preoccupation with ideas of order and disorder; a result of his wartime experiences.

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

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Brion Gysin
Published by Guy Schraenen Editeur, Antwerp, 1974, card (b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10.5 cm, French
Price: €20

One of fifteen contributions from the postcard portfolio 15 CARTES POSTALE published by Guy Schraenen.

Brion Gysin was a British/Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices. He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed.

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

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4 Cartes Postales
Mirtha Dermisache
Published by Guy Schraenen Éditeur, Antwerp, 1978, four cards in folder (b/w ill.), 15.8 × 11 cm, English
Price: €200 (Out of stock)

Four postcards in a folder published by Guy Schraenen éditeur, 1978. Argentinian artist Mirtha Dermisache wrote dozens of books, hundreds of letters and postcards, and countless texts. Not a single one was legible, yet, in their promixity to language, they all resonate with a mysterious potential for meaning. Using ink on paper, Dermisache invented an array of graphic languages, each with its own unique lexical and syntactic structure, laden with poetic and sometimes visceral suggestion.

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

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