The collection goes deeper with Jill Magid’s documentation logs, Christian Marclay’s unplayable records, or Kiki Smith’s Tidal–an accordion-folded lunar masterpiece. Delving deeper, we encounter rare Jan Bas Ader publications, a Marcel Broodthaers Magic Slate multiple (so fragile are his signatures on this piece!), outstanding Conceptual art publications and a Dieter Roth Hansjorg Mayer collection, alongside his editioned multiples–heady and stout but quirky and irreverent. Outstanding examples pepper this collection, among them: Martin Kippenberger books doctored with scribbles, hastily drawn in his frenetic energy numerous books by Lawrence Weiner, with his signature typeface. One ought to fall deeper in love with the artist through this display of tenderness and the depth of philosophy that each piece affords. The tensions between intricacy and simplicity remain forever entertaining. Here we are confronted with the spectacular rawness of each artist’s specific output. Logistically, the sheer volume of primary information contained within each title is impressive. If it is possible to build a library through careful deliberation and random encounter at play simultaneously, it has been done here-this library was beloved and cherished. Collecting is truly a lifestyle and an art of its own every single artist presented here has a special connection to the sellers. The printed passageways featured in Artists' Books & Ephemera offer a glimpse into each artist’s unique, democratic application of their ideas through hybrid, handheld, shareable art. Here at present we have a remarkable atlas, of both artists and collectors. These compact and portable treatises emerge as artworks in their own right, replicated and shared in small or large runs. Any reference library is forever bolstered by the infusion of the loosely defined printed matter section: the oft-hidden editions that, masterfully, if not slyly, reveal the artists’ personal connection to their own art.
The following comprehensive private sale of artist’s books and ephemera represents a pinnacle of awareness and compassion in collecting. Various Manners with Various Things Artists' Books & Ephemera
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