Lawrence Weiner. – Kirsten Ortwed. – Barry Le Va: BARRY LE VA KIRSTEN ORTWED LAWRENCE WEINER. Inscribed by Ortwed.
. Malmö, 1999. 8vo. Hardcover. 164 pages, illustrated throughout with Weiner’s text objects in both Swedish and English. Fine copy
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Malmö Konsthall, 6 February-11 April 1999, organised and conceived by Bera Nordal
First edition
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Giorgio Maffei and Bruno Tonini: Books by Ettore Sottsass. Edizioni Corraini, 2011. 8vo in stiff wraps as issued. 295 pages, richly illustrated in color. Text in both English and Italian. Fine clean copy First edition of Maffai and Tonini’s reference work on Sottsass artists books
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“Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, Rome, but also Amager, Aalborg and Aarhus.
The text reminiscences from the different cities tell about the development in the world and its cityscapes, where everything is always temporary and changing. They also testify to gentrification, for example in the inner city of Rome. The flagship stores of modern capitalism’s corporate stores have taken over retail space that used to offer ordinary necessities of life instead of Prada and Gucci. But in some places, the facades of the former shops remain as traces of a bygone everyday life.
With the right gaze or the right amount of light, these text images appear as suddenly appearing shadows against the background. The texts give the passer-by unfulfilled promises of charcuterie, flowers, bread, groceries, tobacco, etc. As faint markings on doors and windows on facades, where in the near or distant past there was a shop and welcomed customers.
The book’s sober black-and-white images point to the prevalence of the ‘dead’ semi-resolved texts in urban spaces – and the fairly uniform appearance that characterizes them regardless of geographical location. At the same time, the entropic decay can perhaps be compared to the texts left to us by now-disappeared cultures; The inscriptions of the Roman Empire, which are still found around the cityscape of Rome, or the Nordic rune stones and rock carvings”
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Curated by Dirk Dobke. “Dieter Roth. Books + Multiples. Catalogue Raisonné”. Edition Hansjörg Mayer, London 2004. Large oversized hardcover with jacket. 349 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean copy complete with CD with excerpts of Dieter Roths music First edition
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Artists’ book by Vagn Steen featuring a narrative exploring the possibilities of a book with a hole in it. Bound dos-à-dos with English reading in one direction, and Danish in the other
