ARTISTS' BOOKS
Roy Adzak
SCREWS
Hand made object book, 24 pages with imprints, 1976.
6,5 x 4 cm, 20 numbered and signed copies.
Roy Adzak
DESHYDRATATIONS
Study about the dehydration of vegetables, 1976.
42 x 32,5 cm, 40 copies, numbered and signed.
Eduard Bal
LE DERNIER LIVRE DE SCHMOLL
Book of 16 pages of music paper with printed collages of aeroplanes by Eduard Bal, 1977. The publication is a tribute to Paul van Ostaijen, who published a collection of poetry entitled Het eerste boek van Schmoll (Schmoll's first book).*
21,5 x 31 cm, 490 copies, numbered and signed.
Record-object: contained in a printed cover, 1977. 31 x 31 cm, 50 copies, numbered.
Special edition: record-object contained in a printed cover and a book with original collages of aeroplanes by Eduard Bal, Japanese binding, presented in a white slipcase, 1977. 31,5 x 32,5 cm, 10 copies, numbered and signed.
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Both Bal's and van Ostaijen's publications refer to Anton Schmoll's piano study books which had to be endured by beginners at most conservatories at that time.
Eduard Bal
TAPE PIECE
Realized in electrography, edited for the exhibition "Artworks and Bookworks" in Los Angeles.
21 x 15,5 cm, 50 numbered and signed copies, 1977.
Alexandre Bonnier
12 RAPPORTS TECHNIQUES SUR DES CHOSES POSSIBLES
82 pages entirely realized in facsimile, designed by Guy Schraenen, 30 x 21,5 cm, 88 numbered and signed copies, 1977.
Special edition: glass box with an original work, 30 x 21,5 x 7 cm, 12 copies
Ulises Carrión
THE POET'S TONGUE
Sound works by Ulises Carrión which reflect his passion for language, its structures, its sounds and its meanings.
First edition: Cassette, Guy Schraenen éditeur, 1977.
Reeditions:
1. Vinyl record, Alga Marghen, 2012
2. CD; in: Guy Schraenen (ed.): Dear Reader. Don't Read, catalogue, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Alga Marghen, 2016
Lourdes Castro
D'OMBRES
Book complete in silkscreen on half transparent paper, based on photographs of the shadow play by Lourdes Castro. Pages under a rhodoïde cover. Photographs and design: Guy Schraenen, 1974.
20 x 30 cm, 250 copies, numbered and signed.
Book of the month, Oct. 2018, Librairie Lardanchet
Henri Chopin
29 NOVEMBRE 74.
PORTRAIT DES 9
A visual poetry portrait of the "common market". Graphic text in two colours.
30 x 21 cm, 480 copies, numbered and signed, 1975.
Special edition: Book with an original work, 20 copies, numbered and signed.
LIVRE
Object book of 24 pages with original polychrome drawings and one sculpture. All copies, hand made by the artist, are presented in a lacquered box, 1974.
12 copies, numbered and signed.
Antoine de Bary
MARIE-ODILE
Book with cut outs, texts and drawings realized on papers of various textures and colours, 1973.
28 x 22 cm, 60 copies, numbered and signed
Special edition: 12 copies with an original drawing, numbered and signed.
Gilbert Decock
VARUNA
Entirely printed in silkscreen on cardboard 500 gr. The book contains 28 cut outs. Concept: Guy Schraenen, 1973.
40 x 40 cm, 125 copies, numbered and signed.
Jean Degottex; Maurice Benhamou
AFFLEUREMENT DU CHANT
Fully printed in screen print on Velin Arches 300gr. and on polyester. 9 texts by Maurice Benhamou. 9 transparent pages with white lines by Jean Degottex. Polyester cover also silkscreened with Degottex white lines. Presented in a box with laminated printing of the title label, 1976.
40 x 60 cm (closed), 80 x 60 (open), 80 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 9 copies with manuscript and original cover, numbered and signed.
MANIFEST AN DE ORDRE
Report and manifesto by the artist-architect Luc Deleu about a debate on the "Ordre of Architects", 1982. 21 x 31 cm, 25 copies, numbered and signed.
Mirtha Demisache
DIARIO N°1
Artists' book issued in folio size newspaper format? What she called the graphisms, they have no informational remit, but preserve the architecture of the newspaper, 1975.
47 x 36 cm, 1000 copies.
Special edition: 300 copies, signed.
Martha Wilson chooses Diario n°1 as her favourite item in the MoMA Library: MoMA's Reading List
Comment on Diario n°1: Witness Mirtha Dermisache
Mirtha Dermisache
CAHIER N° 1
Book of 29 pages of mimeographed "graphisms". All graphisms directly printed from the original stencils. Publisher's wrapper, 1975.
27,5 x 21,5 cm 130 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 20 copies with original carbon work, numbered and signed.
Peter Downsbrough
CUT
Book with original hand stamps and two b/w photos, 1994.
22 x 16,5 cm, 20 copies, numbered and signed.
François Dufrêne
ŒUVRE DESINTEGRALE
A compilation consisting of almost unavailable sound poetry works by Frnaçois Dufrêne from the period 1965-1979. It includes many of his 'crirhythms' and other experimental pieces, all the result of his creative use of sounds produced by his voice, loudspeakers and the taperecorder.
First edition: 3 cassettes in a slip case, 1976.
Reeditions:
1. Three vinyl records in a box: Alga Marghen, 2007
2. Three CD’s in a box: Alga Marghen, 2007
3. Selection; in: François Dufrêne. Affichiste, sound poet, catalogue, Museu Serralves, Porto 2007
Bill Gaglione 1940-2040
TYPEWRITER STAMP POEMS
Selection of graphic poems and original stamps, 1978.
21,5 x 16 cm, 50 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 5 copies with original work, numbered and signed.
Bernard Heidsieck; Eduard Bal
PORTRAIT-PETALES
Book containing a 17 cm record by Bernard Heidsieck. Illustration: Eduard Bal. Concept: Guy Schraenen, 1973.
38 x 38 cm, 120 copies with silkscreen prints, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 50 copies with 4 collages, presented in a slip case, numbered and signed.
De Luxe edition: 8 copies with 4 collages and one original work by Eduard Bal, presented in a slip case, numbered and signed.
"Portrait-Pétales" at the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen
Bernard Heidsieck
FOULES
Book printed on several coloured papers, based on writing collages “Les 100 Foules d’octobre 1970" by Bernard Heidsieck. Design: Guy Schraenen, 1974.
28 x 20 cm, 480 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 20 copies with an original “writing-collage”, numbered and signed.
Bernard Heidsieck; Françoise Janicot
ENCOCONNAGE
Photo book including 92 arranged photo documents by Guy Schraenen of Françoise Janicot's performance on the poem Passe-Partout n° 9 by Bernard Heidsieck. It contains also a 30 cm record with version 1 and 3 of Encoconnage Passe-Partout n° 9 by Bernard Heidsieck. Photographs and Design: Guy Schraenen, 1974.
31 x 31 cm, 480 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 20 copies with a photo collage by Françoise Janicot, numbered and signed.
Françoise Janicot
RENDEZ-VOUS
One of the first and probably the largest "Xerox-Books", realized in xerography. 15 full page photographs. Concept: Guy Schraenen, 1973.
45 x 58 cm, 45 copies, of which only 20 could be realized, numbered and signed.
Françoise Mairey
SUBSTITUTION
Series of graphic compositions realized on a typewriter and based on piano exercises. Design: Guy Schraenen, 1977.
45 x 58 cm, 45 copies, numbered and signed.
Nanne Meyer
NO TITLE
Book which reflects the characteristic migrations of forms of the artist’s work, 1993.
21 x 14,5 cm, 500 copies, numbered and signed.
Yves Pinguilly
LE TEXTE TEL ET... A SUIVRE
Series of “insciptions” on red paper, 1977.
16 x 22 cm, 240 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 10 copies with an original manuscript, numbered and signed.
Vladan Radovanovic
BECOMING DISTINCT / INSTINCT
Sound cassette, 1977.
Guy Schraenen (ed.)
GUESTBOOK
23 original hand imprints made by some of the artists who visited Guy Schraenen's printing workshop.
29,7 x 21 cm, 50 copies, numbered and signed, 1976-1978. 25 copies of these were reserved for the collaborators.
Antoni Muntadas – Eduard Bal – Artur Barrio – Maurice Benhamou – Bálint Szombathy – Antoni Miralda – Sef Peeters – Pieter Mol – Teun Hocks – Marc Dachy – Cozette de Charmony – Ulises Carrion – Françoise Mairey – Yves Pinguilly – Mirtha Dermisache – Klaus Ritterbusch – Christopher Jones – François Lagarde – John M. Belis – Jonier Marin – Anna Banana – Bill Gaglione
