Armin Hundertmark is - alongside other impresarios like Harry Ruhe, Francesco Conz, Wolfgang Feelisch, Ursula and Rene Block, etc. - one of the most important publishers and champions of Fluxus and Fluxus related artists, along with Visual and Concrete Poets. He founded Edition Hundertmark in 1970 at the age of 22, publishing artists' books, catalogues, postcards, recordings and boxed edition artworks by artists such as Joseph Beuys, Hermann Nitsch, Emmett Williams and Ben Vautier.
Hundertmark Gallery ran from 1984 to 2002, hosting exhibitions by artists such as Dorothy Iannone, Maria Lassnig, Jean Jaques Lebel, Otto Muehl, Yoko Ono, Mieko Shiomi, Arnulf Rainer, Dieter Roth, Tomas Schmit, as well as performance works by Takako Saito, Geoffrey Hendricks, Alison Knowles, and many others. The gallery participated in 80 art-fairs and published 165 Box-Editions.
Hundertmark also produced the periodical Ausgabe.
Similar to the Primary Information week-long focus earlier in the year, every day for the rest of the month of November I will be posting publications from Hundertmark Editions, with a particular focus on the Booklet series.
Hundertmark published his first artist booklet in 1976, with a title by Endre Tot. There are 45 booklets in total, with the series wrapping up in 2002, when Armin left Germany and relocated to Gran Canaria, Spain. Each booklet has 16 to 24 pages and a cardboard binding.
The artists include Jiri Valoche, George Maciunas, Al Hansen, Henri Chopin, Joe Jones, Takako Saito, George Brecht & Stefan Wewerka, Monika Bartholome, Philip Corner, Emmett Williams, Joseph Beuys, Milan Knizak, Mieko Shiomi, Robert Filliou, Robin Page, Jean Toche, Yozo Ukita and many others.
A few are priced slightly higher now (such as Flux Paper Events by George Maciunas) and some are out of stock (Jiri Valoch, Al Hansen, Henri Chopin) but otherwise the series remains available at what I imagine is their original price of 16 Euros (somewhat adjusted for inflation, presumably).
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