André Thomkins | Zahnschutz gegen Gummiparagraphen

André Thomkins
Zahnschutz gegen Gummiparagraphen
Remscheid, Germany: Edition VICE-Versand, 1968
11.7 × 8.6 × 1.9 cm.
Unlimited edition

A cardboard box (each titled uniquely, it would appear), containing stamped rubber with three rubber bands - two of which are designed to go around the wearer's ears and the third extends from their mouth.

Available for € 550. from Raphael Levy, here. 

La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela | The Well-Tuned Piano/The Magenta Lights

La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela
The Well-Tuned Piano
New York City, USA: MELA Foundation, 1981
38.2 x 50.7 cm.
Edition size unknown

A colour offset poster designed by Zazeela from the program for a concert at Dia Art Foundation, New York.

La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela
30-Year Retrospective Concerts poster
New York City, USA: MELA Foundation, 1987
40.7 cm x 40.7 cm.
Edition size unknown

Diagonal poster by Marian Zazeela, for the 30-Year Retrospective Concert Series which ran from March 29th to May 21st, 1987, at the Dia Art Foundation Performance Space, 155 Mercer Street, New York City. The series include seven performances of the durational just-intonation piece The Well-Tuned Piano, Zazeela's The Magenta Lights, concerts of works from the previous three decades and a panel discussion.


Pitchfork reviewed the 1987 5 LP box set of The Well Tuned Piano today, awarding it nine and a half stars. Read the review here.

Jeremy Deller | Corporate Rock Must Die

Jeremy Deller
Corporate Rock Must Die
Glasgow, Scotland: The Modern Institute, 1998
18.1 × 18.1 cm.
Edition of 500

A collaboration with Glasgow-based DJ Jonnie Wilkes, the 7-inch single was backed with the song "Digital Beard". Later the same year the disc was reissued on yellow vinyl.

Stop Me If You've Heard It Closing

Dave Dyment
Cento
Toronto, Canada: 2018
10.75 x 13.75"
acrylic paint, gold leaf marker and archival pen on paper
Varied edition of 5 signed and numbered copies

A hand-drawn and painted mix tape J-card, featuring a collection of songs where artists borrowed another band’s title as their moniker, or where songs are named after other musicians.

From the exhibition Stop Me If You'Ve Heard It, which closes tomorrow (Saturday February 3rd) at MKG127.

Read Terence Dick's review at Akimbo, here.

The Valise

Johanna Calle, Matías Duville, Maria Laet, Mateo
López, Nicolás Paris, Rosângela Rennó, Christian Vinck Henriquez
The Valise
New York City, USA: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2017
36 × 62 × 11.6 cm.
Edition of 125 [+ 20 AP]

The Valise presents works by seven South American artists responding to the idea of travel and to César Aira’s 2000 novel Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero and the English translation, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2006). Hailed as "thrilling" (New York Sun) and "utterly astonishing" (San Francisco Chronicle), the book concerns the story of an 1837 journey through South America by the German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858), an associate of the explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.

Part biography, part surrealist fiction, the story finds Rugendas horribly disfigured as a result of being struck by lightning while riding a horse, and subsequently dragged through the Pampas as the horse flees. The experience leaves the artist with an altered perspective, as he struggles to continue painting.

The Valise contains fifteen printed objects (original prints, maps, airmail envelopes, origami toys, posters) two artist’s books, a 12" vinyl record, and a hand blown glass sculpture. Each work reflects "the artists’ shared affinity for geography, travel literature, and book-making."

Produced last year in an edition of 100 signed copies for for the members of the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, a "deluxe edition" of 25 copies was made available for purchase. The deluxe edition (pictured above) includes hand-cut paper architecture by López, a second woodcut print by Duville, a Paris design, hand-painted in metal leaf, on the carrying case. An additional 10 artist copies of each of the two editions go to the artists and other collaborators.

For information about the individual works (including biographies of each artist) visit the MoMA page, here.