Holland, Agora Studio, 100 copies West Germany, Baack’scher Kunstraum – Cologne, 100 copies 1977 16,8 x 16,8 cm.; 40 pp. nn.
Arts, Photography, Artist Book, Avant-Garde
The artistbook contains close-up photographic shots of various parts of the artist’s own body paired with short texts and diagrams illustrative of each bodily sensation.
From the library of the Belgian constructivist artist Yves De Smet; owner’s stamp on first page. Cover has slight agetoning otherwise very good condition.
Earlier In 1976, an edition of 20 copies printed on kodak photopaper sheets in folio size (49,8x50,6cm) was published.
Rare.
- Michael Druks (Jerusalem 1940 – 2022 London) is an Israeli-born British artist working with video, painting and other creative media. These include performance, photography, collage and installation. Druks’s work has featured at Documenta 6 of 1977 in Kassel, the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and the Tel Aviv Museum as well as other exhibition venues. Having grown up in Tel Aviv, Michael Druks has lived and worked in London since the 1970’s, after spending several months in Amsterdam before moving to London in 1972.
- Yves De Smet (Gent 1946 – 2004) is a Belgian constructivist and conceptual artist. Co-founder of the constructivist Plus group (1966 -1968) and the Plus-Kern group (1969)