Fabryka (Signed)

Ryszard Wasko (ed.), Sol Lewitt, Lawrence Weiner, Taka Iimura, Tomasz Konart, Antoni Mikolajczyk, Dóra Maurer, Pawel Kwiek, Kazuo Katase, Maurizio Nannucci, Fred Sandback, Les Levine, Richard Nonas, Paul Sharits, Peter Downsbrough, Aleksander Honory, Waclaw Ropiecki, Fabryka (Signed), published by the artists, Lodz, 1982. 295 x 210mm. 200 pp. Book in cardboard covers bound with tape on various paper stocks with collaged elements including photo prints and rubber stamps. Unpaginated. Texts in English and Polish. Artists book initiated by a group of Polish artists, following the influential exhibition ‘Construction in Process’ which was curated by Ryszard Wasko in Lodz in 1981. Signed and inscribed by Antoni Mikolajczyk with a dedication to Paul Panhuysen, a Dutch composer and artist who founded Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven in the 1980s, an arts space focusing in sound and free improvisation. Wasko’s page is handwritten, hand drawn in pencil and signed. According to the artist Peter Lowe, who was in Lodz for the setup of the exhibition, after the final day of the installation, once the international artists had left Poland, the staff of the factory canteen were arrested by police, who accused them of being spies as they were seen with foreigners. Contributors include: Sol Lewitt, Lawrence Weiner, Taka Iimura, Tomasz Konart, Antoni Mikolajczyk,Pawel Kwiek, Kazuo Katase, Maurizio Nannucci, Fred Sandback, Les Levine, Richard Nonas, Paul Sharits, Peter Downsbrough, Aleksander Honory, Waclaw Ropiecki and many others. Light toning on top edge of covers, internally fine. Condition: Near Fine. …