General
Idea:
editions
1967-1995
"General Idea Editions
1967-1995" was published by the Blackwood Gallery to accompany the traveling
retrospective exhibition of editioned works by the seminal artists¹
collective General Idea. Containing over 200 full-page b&w and colour
reproductions, the 320-page book documents the complete editions produced
from 1967 (in the two years prior to the official formation of the group
in 1969), through the vast array of works that spanned their historic
25-year collaboration until 1994, the year in which Felix Partz and
Jorge Zontal died from AIDS-related causes. The visual documentation
concludes with "XXX Voto (for the Spirit of Miss General Idea"), published
posthumously by the group¹s sole surviving member AA Bronson in 1995.
Researched by Fern Bayer, the Catalogue Raisonné includes a list of
ephemera, film and video works, a biography, bibliography, and index
to the editions. The introduction by exhibition curator Barbara Fischer
is followed with an essay by AA Bronson, excerpts from a conversation
between AA Bronson and Mike Kelley, and commentaries by a host of internationally
respected artists and writers -- Jean-Christophe Ammann, Cathy Busby,
Lionel Bovier, Cathy Busby, Christophe Cherix, Joshua Decter, Diedrich
Diederichsen, John Miller, Philip Monk, and Stephan Trescher.
The paperback version
is $35
The hardcover edition is sold out.
AA
Bronson:
Felix, June 5, 1994
“Bronson’s
portrait Felix, June 5th, 1994 (1994-99)is a vast photograph, taken
of Felix a few hours after he died, and one of the most powerful images
to have been produced by an artist, anywhere in the world, in recent years.
The image of Felix embodies an extraordinary tension between an assertive
decorative quality a Klimt-like collision of patterns and bright colours
and profound subject matter.”
- from the introduction
by Jonathon Watkins
Flanked by an in-depth conversation between Bronson and Matthias Herrmann, and adorned with images of Bronson's other solo work, Felix, June 5th, 1994 is the anchor, both visually and intellectually, for the artist’s frank discussion of his past and future career.
AA
Bronson Felix, June 5, 1994 is co-published by
Art Metropole, Toronto, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
price: $30, hardbound