Editions
SHOW AND TELL EDITIONS
(HEART FINE ART)
Since 2001 we have been publishing editions under the label of Show and Tell editions - below is the complete list of titles we have created in conjunction with various artists.
We can offer discounts to other dealers for multiple purchases on some of these items (with * after the title and if this applies to you please email us asking for details)
To buy any item then please click on the links after each item to see an image and order details.
Friedman, Ken
52 EVENTS *
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2001
153 x 145mm, 118pp. A 2002 diary, stapled with card covers and printed offset dust jacket. Each diary is signed and numbered by well known Fluxus artist Ken Friedman in an edition of only 250 copies. Each week of the year is accompanied by an event score by Friedman. Most scores are annotated in 9pp of detailed notes at the back of the diary containing much historical Fluxus information and anecdotes as well as background on the various event scores themselves. An artist's multiple as deconstructed diary.
WITH A UNIQUE DRAWING
Friedman, Ken
52 EVENTS *
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2001
153 x 145mm, 118pp. A 2002 diary, stapled with card covers and printed offset dust jacket. Each diary is signed and numbered by well known Fluxus artist Ken Friedman in an edition of only 250 copies however 6 copies within the edition had (through the whim of the artist) unique small drawings on the half-title page: offered here is one of those unique copies. Fine.
DELUXE EDITION
Friedman, Ken
52 EVENTS. DELUXE EDITION OF 10 COPIES. *
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2001
25 x 25 x 25cm object multiple - wood, found objects, screws, acrylic paint, found book, paint brush paper, laminate, brass plate and book. Content of a 153 x 145mm, 118pp. signed (by Friedman) and numbered edition of a 2002 diary, stapled with card covers and printed offset dust jacket. This deluxe edition has the diary housed in a (deliberately partly painted) small, handmade, wooden bookcase (a cube) with added small wooden toys, a deck of cards, paint and brush, a model boat, a found second hand theology book - all referencing the text of the diary within which each week of the coming year is accompanied by an event score by Friedman. Most scores are annotated in 9pp of detailed notes at the back of the diary containing much historical Fluxus information and anecdotes as well as background on the various event scores themselves. A deconstructed diary - the choice as to whether to use it or not is made by the purchaser.
Cutts, Simon
SCROLL 1 *
Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 20002
69.5 x 10.5 cm, 2-colour letterpress print on conservation paper. A visual poem: a double image of the one line poem "late starlings startled by traffic resettle" appears to 'fly off' the page. Signed and numbered from an edition of 100 plus 20 H.C. proofs: the whole housed in a custom tube to allow the owner to chose to treat the work as a rolled scrolI or to frame it. The first of a series of 10 different Scrolls from various well-known artists. Image on request.
(Paik, Nam June)
Baladi, Roland
NAM JUNE'S FIRST TAPE *
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2002
Standard VHS Cassette tape in box with printed insert content of Baladi's video investigation into Nam June Paik's mythical first video tape piece (sometimes referred to as "The Pope Tape"). Paik picked up an early portable video recorder and filmed the crowds attending the Pope's NYC visit from a moving taxi. The tape was later shown that same evening to a Fluxus event - Paik's tape is usually regarded as the very first use of video in an art context. Baladi's investigation takes place in a yellow cab touring the streets of New York while various possible sources of information are quizzed over the telephone about the original art event. Baladi's voice is joined by voiced responses in English from June Nam Paik himself, Barbara London (the video curator at MOMA), Shigeco Kubota (Nam June Paik's companion) as well as Don Foresta, Russel Connorand John Hanhart. The replication of Paik's activity underscores the artist's urgent attempts to discover more about this legendary event. Voiced in English with French sub-titles. Issued in an edition of 30 tapes plus 2 A/Ps, the tape has both PAL and NSTC versions allowing for viewing on both US and European VCRs.
http://www.heartfineart.com/object-multiples-amp-editions-c-12/nam-june-s-first-tape-p-185
Monk, Jonathan
ONE OF TWO
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2003
A 2.5 x 3 x 3cm (approx) wood and rubber stamp consisting of a reproduced image of the artistÕs right thumbprint. One of 65 signed and numbered (on a certificate) examples from the important British conceptual artist (and curator) Monk. Referencing Manzoni (who often stamped works with his thumbprint), and, perhaps indirectly, Warhol: the idea of the unique re-made as a multiple was never before more apposite as here. Fine condition.
http://www.heartfineart.com/object-multiples-amp-editions-c-12/one-of-two-edition-of-only-65-signed-and-numbered-p-2794
Bellingham, David
TURNOUT *
Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005
15 x 10.2cm, 32pp plus printed card covers. A new artist's book from Scottish artist, David Bellingham that solely consists of 4,668 reproductions of hand drawn crosses and an illustration of a ballot box. There are strictly 500 hand-numbered copies of this book - aside from one unique book (no. 1) within the edition which corrects the entire number of crosses to exactly represent the total number of votes cast in Scotland during the May 5th 2005 General Election (2,333,882). Conceptual work and/or concrete poem, this is a peon to democracy and a metaphor of the substantial effort required in maintaining openness in society.
Bellingham, David
ABSTENTIONS
Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005
21 x 16cm black and red artist designed postcard with an image of the Scottish Parliament overlaid with a number of red crosses - thus either cancelling the image or representing the democratic wishes of the Scottish people depending on one's point of view. A card multiple which was issued as the Heart Gallery closed its doors for ONE month to represent (during the artist's TURNOUT project where he rewrote almost 2,000,000 Xs by hand during a gruelling 7 weeks stint in the Heart Gallery) the abstentions of voters during the firs ever Scottish elections. Only 250 copies of the card were published - and 72 were sent to sitting members of the Scottish Parliament by the artist - of the remaining 178 copies circa 20 were signed. Here we offer one of the signed copies.
Monk Jonathan
PICTURE POSTCARD POSTED FROM POST BOX PICTURED *
Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005
14.8 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of the British Royal Mail post box (located on Edinburgh's Royal Mile) from which the card will be posted to the purchaser. First release of 200 unnumbered cards - each card is signed verso by Monk and postmarked from Edinburgh. One of a series of similar conceptual mail art works by Monk. Purchasers should supply the name and address to which the card should be posted on ordering.
Maris
KETTLE *
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2005
16 x 15.5 x 8cm manufacturers' printed cardboard box content of aluminium camping kettle with lid and handle. The kettle has been used once (as evidenced by the patina on the bottom of the kettle) and within the kettle are the remains of a brew of tea i.e. some previously boiled sprigs of heather (Culluna vulgaris) from Rannoch Moor. Each of the kettles from within this edition of 21 has been used to make such a brew of heather tea with water from each (in turn) of one of Rannoch Moor's 21 streams or rivers and heather found next to the banks of each river. Each kettle is etched with the name of the river and also with the number of the edition and the artists' name and date. The box is also signed by the artists.
Maris [3 (a family of three)] have been creating a number of environmental artworks for many years - recently reconstructing or rather deconstructing some of the Scottish actions of Joseph Beuys. This kettle references Beuys' act of burying a lump of gelatine in the moor and the artist's point to the theoretical homeopathic effect of drinking a cup of heather tea that contains some atomic trace of the gelatine.
Rannoch Moor is a great expanse of peat bog in the central highlands of Scotland. It is the primary watershed of Central Scotland where rivers start their journeys towards the Atlantic in the west and to the North Sea in the east. It has no road from West to East over an expanse of 20 miles. It was once a great forest but has suffered massive deforestation due to the requirements of an emerging human population and later charcoal production.
Only 19 of the 21 kettles are to be released for public sale (3 being retained by the publisher and artists).
Friedman, Ken
TEA SHIRT *
Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005
Standard XL white T-shirt with round neck which has been dipped in a strong solution of Twinings' Lapsong Souchong tea and silkscreened with the following Fluxus event score: "Tea Shirt/ Brew a large kettle of tea./Soak a white cotton shirt in the tea./ Ken Friedman 1974." The whole is shrink-wrapped in plastic to retain the pungent aroma of the tea along with a signed and numbered certificate from the artist to create a self-referential artist's multiple. Edition of 40 signed and numbered copies with 2 A/Ps.
http://www.heartfineart.com/object-multiples-amp-editions-c-12/tea-shirt-signed-and-numbered-p-422
Monk, Jonathan
THE SURPRISE *
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2005
Found 7 inch single 45rpm record with specially printed label and white cover. The record is one of 100 different pop singles mostly from the 1980s - with some of the records by well known artists and others not. The re-labelling of the record by Monk means that the purchaser will not know what the original record is (unless they recognise it or do some research) - thus the 'surprise'. One of 100 copies each signed and numbered by Monk in pencil on the white outer cover. Each record is obviously unique within the edition. This year's Xmas number one?
http://www.heartfineart.com/object-multiples-amp-editions-c-12/the-surprise-p-186
McCrone, Laurie
EVERY DEATH ON CHRISTMAS DAY 2005 RECORDED IN THE HERALD WITH THE NAMES OF THE DEAD DEDUCTED IN RED
Unique pencil drawing within a series.
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2006
15.5 x 12.5cm, printed folder content of a 15 x 12cm pencil drawing on transparent architectural paper with the title drawing and tissue protector sheet. The work by Scottish artist McCrone is based on accountancy practices and based on a series of columns in the Xmas day obituary column: McCrone has denoted each word with a short pencil line with several columns overlaid on each other. Where a proper name is encountered the artist has "deducted" the word by the use of a red line in place of the usual black mark. The resulting drawing interestingly becomes literally multi-layered - seeming to be tombstone, accountancy column, newspaper grid and bloody object all at once but conceptually also references death and decay on a festive day more commonly associated with joy and supposed birth. Each drawing is unique within a series of 20 such drawings and there are 4 variations of mark used (deductions in red, accountants' tally mark, cross check and no mark at all) to indicate proper names. A considered first publicly available work from this talented emerging artist. Image(s) on request.
(Finlay, Ian Hamilton)
Davenport, Philip
"MERCURY HYMN/IAN HAMILTON FINLAY IS DEAD"
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2006
21 x 21cm red and black lithographic print with the title visual poem taken from Davenport's wall installation which was created as a response to the death of and in honour of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Only 20 numbered and signed copies were published.
http://www.heartfineart.com/prints-amp-posters-c-10/mercury-hymn-ian-hamilton-finlay-is-dead-signed-numbered-p-67
EACH COVER WITH AN UNIQUE PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGE
Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bär
K.HJ.+F.(MB) IN EDINBURGH
Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2007 (in collaboration with SHMF and youdonthavetocallitmusic)
Standard long playing record with music from the German avant garde husband and wife. Each cover of the record is hand made and is an unique collage by Kommissar Hjuler - with aspects taken from hard-core pornographic magazines with the relevant male and female heads replaced by rubber stamp impressions of the two artists. Each is one from a series of only 35 signed and numbered records. Fine estate.
http://www.heartfineart.com/artists-records-tapes-cds-c-14/k-hjmb-in-edinburgh-unique-collage-covers-p-303
ONE OF ONLY 10 HAND DRAWN COPIES (AND 3 A/PS) OF THIS CONCEPTUAL DOCUMENT ALL UNIQUE WITHIN THE SERIES
McCrone, Laurie
UNTITLED (MDMA)
21 x 15cm, 8pp self cover. Graphite and white ink on digital print out on heavy card, staples. A hand-made artist's book by McCrone based on the exhibition catalogue - for her first ever solo show. The book is exactly as the catalogue for the exhibition at Heart Gallery only every letter in the original (whether in the essay or the various legends on the images) has been replaced with a single vertical mark made by McCrone. Decidely a fitting and representative work for an artist who denotes the missing and the insignificant. McCrone has said " Mark making is an act of faith. The importance is not that each mark is seen but that it is there." The book is strangely beautiful with the numerous slight marks from McCrone's pencil and pens creating an abstract image on most pages and a hint of the disappearance of something important throughout. Issued in an.edition of 10 + 3 not for sale hors commerce copies with each book being unique within the series. Issued jointly with a copy of the original catalogue it is based on - each book is signed and numbered. (The digital inks employed are guaranteed by the manufacturer to last at least 75 years without significant fading).
We hope to release further editions in the near future including working with Carolee Schneemann, Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer and Maurizio Nannucci and always welcome ideas from other established artists for such projects.
