Schraenen Guy Editor (2 results)
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Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Three Cinderella stamps affixed & black & white illus. throughout. [31] loose leaves as issued, several larger folded sheets. 8vo, printed wrappers & re-used envelope band, signed & numbered by the editor. Antwerp: 1979. The 16th issue of Commonpress, edited by collector and independent publisher Guy Schraenen (19…41-2018), and produced in an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. WorldCat records only two copies, in Spain and Belgium. It presents the works of artists such as Anna Banana, Vittore Baroni, Paulo Bruscky, Henryk Bzdok, Ulises Carrión, Robin Crozier, Klaus Groh, Ko de Jonge, Tommy Mew, Pawel Petasz, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Lon Spiegelman, etc., etc. A total of 31 artists contributed to the issue. In excellent condition, with the envelope band preserved. Signed and numbered by Schraenen on the upper wrapper. ? "Petasz launched this travelling magazine in 1977, and it may have been contributed to the idea that, in Petasz's opinion, if each issue was edited by a different person and therefore the place of publication also changed, Polish authorities would not be able to control editorial work or ban the magazine. After the first issue [published in December 1977] Petasz only undertook the task of coordination. The practice was that the person who wanted to edit a Commonpress issue could announce any topic freely. If they wanted to know which issue it would be, it was necessary to exchange letters with Petasz. Then in each finished Commonpress publication the planned topic of the next issues, the deadlines to hand in contributions and the address of the editors were announced. This way the magazine was passed from hand to hand and the participants handing in their works followed the wandering addresses of editors to any part of the world. By this means Commonpress published nearly 60 magazines of very different characters in several years. "The whole project could be compared to one big assembling whose centre does not receive contributions by the artists but the editors participating in it present different magazines under a common title. The issues themselves hardly resembled assemblings, since they were Mail Art compilations."-Géza Perneczky, Assembling Magazines: 1969-2000 (2007), pp. 72-73.
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Seller: Bernett Rare Books, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.Bernett Rare Books
Contact seller4-star sellerAntwerp: Archive for Small Press & Communication, 1977. Various sizes, duodecimo to quarto, envelope size 31 x 24 cm. Loose sheets executed in offset, mimeograph, and rubber stamp, with original rubber-stamped envelope with printed title sheet affixed to front. Introductory sheet with table of contents and eighteen total items,…including fifteen works by Latin American artists. Some wear, soiling, and light toning to envelope, light scattered handling wear to interior documents, overall very good. Limited edition of 100 copies. This assemblage contains works by Artur Alipio Barrio, Paulo Bruscky, Ulises Carrión, Mirtha Dermisache, Felipe Ehrenberg, Lucia Fleury, Dayse Lacerda, Raùl Marroquin, Jozias Benedicto de Moraes Neto, Tlemente Padin, Essila Burello Paraiso, Flavio Pons, Celestino Ignacio Souza, Silvio Antonio Spada, and Emilio Aloysio Zaluar. Also included in this collection is a catalog "Editions & Communications Marginales d'Amérique Latine", a two-page information sheet of CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación), and a single issue of the journal Escrita: Revista Mensal de Literatura, Año 1, No. 11, 1976. The Archive for Small Press & Communication (ASPC) was founded in 1974 in Antwerp, Belgium, by Guy Schraenen and Anne Marsily, and developed out of Schraenen's Galerie Kontakt and the associated publisher, Guy Schraenen Éditeur. The ASPC was part of the international small press movement and, in Schraenen's words, had "the aim to collect and preserve all types of art documentation, emanating principally from artists' intiatives and covering all fields the contemporary artist is active in." The main focus was on avant-garde movements of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, such as conceptual art, Fluxus, land art, minimalism, pop art, concrete poetry, and mail art. The archive preserved works across all forms of media, including visual art, recordings, posters, artist's books, video and film, magazines, photographs, and writings. The ASPC also published works and put on exhibitions in its own exhibition space as well as produced traveling exhibitions, organized lectures, and put out a monthly radio program. As of April 2026, OCLC locates six holdings in North American libraries.
