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Postcards to and from Sol Lewitt, 1970s-1990s

(via Artists’ Books and Multiples – @artistsbooksandmultiples​)

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From: Sol LeWitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art, 1968 [MoMA, New York, NY. © 2019 Sol LeWitt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

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“The creative writer does the same as the child at play. He creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”

— Sigmund Freud

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Yasunao Tone, Origin of geometry: an introduction’, 2006 [MACBA, Barcelona]

(via void())

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Yasunao Tone, Score for ‘Alethia’, 1988 (source pdf here)

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Pierre Garnier, Spatialisme et poésie concrète, Gallimard, Paris, 1968, pp. 36-37

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Hans Clavin, holland var. 969: konkrete poezieclavin, De Tafelronde, Antwerp, 1970

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Schülerarbeiten. Ausstellung der kunstgewerblichen Abteilung der allgemeine Berufsschule Basel, June 9 – July 8, 1956

(via typoswiss)

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Henri Chopin, (Oh! Que ma fête Nocturne…), from ‘Les milles pensées’, n.d. [Chopin Papers, Box 30, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT]

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La Biblioteca di B.: Bernhard (1970) (1984) S_pun E(Einaudi) L→135 A↑218, (series of 26 traces), 2018

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Still of a performance-based installation film, “hahahahaha” by Heidi Prescott (November 2015)

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“Desktop Is” curated by Alexei Shulgin (1997-98).  Dubbing itself ‘The First International Online Desktop Exhibition,’ this show is still partially open to the public.  Like an ancient temple near the ocean though, it’s beginning to experience severe structural damage.  

Only about 1/3 of the entire desktop collection still exist at their original URL.  [For those interested: I’ve created an archive of what’s still available.] Also still available is Garnet Hertz’s classic “7300 Desktop” (from which the last desktop is pulled).

All of this makes me appreciate the donation that I give Rhizome each year towards it’s Art Base.  Speaking of which, if you’re interested in learning more about Alexei—there’s a Rhizome interview from 2008 and there’s always Wikipedia too.

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Josef Albers, Interior A, 1929.

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Ole Schwalbe   1959

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Hansjörg Mayer, (from) the last alphabet, 1969–2013

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Josef Albers from Poems and Drawings 1958

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immagini sintetiche, Text by Marco Zanuso, CIFE – Centro Informazioni Ferrania, Milano, November 10-25, 1967. In Gruppo MID. Immagini sintetiche 1965/1972: Antonio Barrese and Alberto Marangoni, Kanalidarte, Brescia, 2017, p. 63