Books


		*Red Sphinx Books*

	*1) Gut Bad Wurst* 60 full page C-prints in archival inks, featuring extended drawing at its metaphorically most simple using pen, pencil and PC, soft bound, glassine, 30 x 21 cm, numbered/20, signed, 2003 300 euros *2) Drawings: Late 20th To Early 21st Century* 66 full page C-prints in archival inks featuring extrapolations of the artist’s notebooks from the late 20th and early 21st centuries soft bound, glassine, 30 x 21 cm, numbered/20, signed, 2003 300 euros *3) A Brief Introduction To Hegelian Dialectics* 24 images (C- prints in archival inks) illustrating in 5 parts thesis, antithesis and synthesis, and some sub-divisions as for example absinthesis, spiral bound, 21 x 15 cm, numbered/100, 2005 32 euros *4) Conscious Cookies* “a Baker’s Dozen (Stocked up over the decades to Three Score)”, 60 poetical assays with 14 cookie illustrations (C- prints in archival inks) in colour by the author, spiral bound, 62 pages, 21 x 15 cm, numbered/100, 2005 32 euros *5) Pissaro – Der Ur-Renoir / Pissaro - The Ur-Renoir* 27 colourful variations (C- prints in archival inks) of an image playing around the sense suggested in the phonetics of the names of the 2 impressionist painters accompanied by a sentence in variations - soon to be amde into a smash musical. Available both in German and English Spiral bound, 62 pages, 15 x 21 cm, numbered/100, 2005 EUR 34,50 6) Googleface “Pictures and portraits of great poets, painters and musicians of the 20th century found on the internet,” A5 spiral bound, 74 colour pages in archival inks, numbered/100, signed, 2006 32 euros 7) Alles Tip-Top Fairly austere item consisting of alternating issues of the German consumer broadsheets “Tip” and “Top”, spiral bound, number of issues varying between about 16 and 24, sometimes with extravagant supplements for those with ample shelf space, Spiral bound, approx. 31 x 22, with an original print on the cover, numbered/30, signed 2006 60 euros 8) Lurchi the Actionist Being the adventures of Germany’s greatest childhood Volksheld as Actionist, graphically illustrated to show his total similarity to the notorious Vienna Actionists. Plus an essay “The Viennese Actionism” translated by Google, and a guide to the illustrations spiral bound, 26 pages, A5, richly illustrated in archival inks, numbered/100, signed, 2006, 32 euros 9) Must illusions always spawn more illusions? Poetic if pathetic pastel about a figure-background illusion going round the twist Spiral bound, A5, 17 unnumbered pages on chromolux paper, featuring 9 original graphics by the author, numbered 1 to 25, signed 42 euros 9a) Must illusions always spawn more illusions? The same text and figures, but in a simple pocket-size black, white and blue f ormat for those seeking inspiration while out and about. spiral bound, A6, archival inks, numbered 26 to 100 10 euros 10) Ewiger Wiederkehr Another fairly austere item (like # 7) consisting of issues of another German consumer broadsheet with each issue sealed in plastic. Spiral bound, number of issues varying between about 20 and 30, held together with the original black plastic bands in which they were transported, Spiral bound, approx. 31 x 22, with an original print on the cover (“Ewiger Wiederkauer – Dauerwurst”), numbered/30, signed 2006, 60 euros OUT OF PRINT 11) 119 Wurstsalate/119 Wurst Salads Precisely that, as it were, but it’s not, so to say... permeating all the way from WURTS to TWURS (with an “Extrawurstsalat” thrown in at the end) A5 spiral bound, 120 original graphics (C-prints in archival inks) on 62 pages, numbered/100, signed, 2006 37 euros 12) The Invisible Hamlet 23 portraits variously in black and white or full colour documenting the nascence of the Invisible Hamlet and the effect he was to have on the planet. Plus frontispiece and endpiece and full colour jacket in glassine, Soft bound, A3, all on 240 g art paper, laser printed, numbered/20, signed, 2006 150 euros 13) Paean to the Dotard No 13 - unlucky for some but not for His Dotardship. A fab Paeon on the 1st page plus a heroic investigation of His Deeds & Exploits in “An Afterword” written and researched by An Admirer, together with 22 full colour prints (C-prints in archival inks) by Malcolm Green:on themes from said afterword: a riot of psychedelic sloths and excrements! A publication for the ’pataphysically inclined and those who wish to be, steeped in typical incestuousness. 33 pages in all, 21 x 21 cm numbered/30, signed, 2006, 45 euros 14) Who said “when I hear the word ‘culture’” Some opinions on the notorious quote originally from Nazi playwright Hanns Johst, and liberally attributed to everyone from Bismarck to Goering, Henry Miller and T.S. Eliot – to name a few - culled from the seemingly infinite sea of words sailed by Google in March 2006 Unnumbered A1 poster, plus a limited edition of twenty signed by the artist 27 euros, signed 45 euros 15) Who said “when I hear the word ‘culture’” The above but in a handy pocket book format, 15 x 10.8 cm, 32 pp. nice glossy cover with nice prety sticker in a signed and numbered edition of 100, 15 euros 16) In Praise of Erotic Irony A meditation on bondage and the theory of Romantic Irony expounded by the German Romantics. 13 pages, exquisitely illustrated, very tasty! 15 x 21 cm, 2007. Signed and numbered edition of 100, 32 euros 17) Noirs - ou les fleurs du Malcolm A suite of 60 prints on 180 g semi-gloss art paper featuring drawings done in a few sesssions in China (Xiamen), Hellnar in Iceland, and Heidelberg using crayons and black photocopy paper. All very spontaneous and colourful! 29.8 x 21, loose wrappers, Heidelberg 2007, Signed and numbered editiion of 20, dead cheap at 100 euros 18) Double Visions A suite of handwritten metaphysical remblings and speculative humour on 180 g semi-gloss art paper, featuring a number of drawings of inside-oouters done some years earlier. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name at the BABS in London, November 2007 29.8 x 21, loose wrappers, Heidlberg 2007, Signed and numbered editiion of 20, a snip at 90 euros 19) The Colour of Obscurity An investigation into the possibility of obscurity as a strategy in art: obscurity is also a colour in our palette with which we can paint. In this case a rather strident yellow obscurity, so definitely a book for fans of yellow and obscurity. 15 x 10.8 cm, 20 pp. Loose wraps, 2007, 12 euros 20) The Wetting of the Self Marking a new stylistic departure, these pen and wash drawings with their inquiring subtext investigate the relationship between the deeper heavings of the soul and the liquids that we are intimately connected with. Signed and numbered editiion of 100, 21 x 15 cm, hardbound, 2008, 32 euros 21) Freud, Lacan, Derrida It is quite inconceivable that the author and illustrator managed to omit Bakhtin from this pantheon of modern thought, this robust work is forthrightly Rabelasian. Some 26 pages of riotous retheorizing climaxing in a feminist apotheose. 2008, 100 signed and numbered copies, 22 euros 22) *e-Brus* A personal gift to the artist and actionist Günter Brus on his 70th birthday, consisting of page after page of eBay adverts for articles of Brusian origin. An entry for the cheesy cover award 1976. Curious: as for example this ad vfor “beautiful brus”! 60 pages, strictly limited to 13 signed and nunmbered copies. 15 x 21 cm 2008, 40 euros 23) The Egg, The Light & Purple Prose Two whoile invewstigations, this time into the nature of light and the colour of the 4th dimension respectively, done in luscious watercolours. 30 pages, 21 x 15, spiral bound, 100 signed and numbered copies, 2008, 32 euros 24) Jotter no.9 from Venus At the Small Publishers’ Fair sat the Conway Hall in 2007, someone tried to buy my notebook. Here in response is a jaunt through my notebooks of the last two to three years, carefully bound to faithfully convey the slapdash way in which I make my actual notebooks. 14.8 x 10.8 cm, 73 full-page reproductions, 100 signed and numbered copies, 2008, 37 euros 25) Double Visions The popular edition of No. 18 above, 15 x 10,8, soft cover, Heidelberg 2008, nice for when out and about. 13 euros 26) The Yellow Book / Gegenuhrbilder Suite of around 80 drawings all done solely with anticlockwise lines - including in many cases the texts written on them and even the signature! An exercise in whirling my brain around in an odd direction, with an essay. 29.8 x 21 soft cover with pretty wraps in glassine. C. 85 pages, complete with a short essay and a list of the inscriptions, whic in many case were done someqhat obscurely in anticlcokwise script. Heidelberg 2009. Edition of 20, signed and numbered, a snip at 100 euros 26) Madame sans Gene Suite of around 90 drawings and collages done in, on and around Max Ernst’s famous collage novel La femme cent tetes: Unlike many neo-Ernstites, the artist has not been slave to the master’s methods but gone at recollaging and rewriting Ernst’s book with unselfconscious élan.. Size 29.8 x 21, soft cover (looks like an arty French publication in glassine). C. 90 A4 pages in blistering colour (at times). Heidelberg 2009. From the exhibition of the same name in Emerson Gallery, Berlin. Edition of 20, signed and numbered, a snip at 100 euros 27) A Small Diter-Rotikon One that slipped my attention: an essay on Dieter Roth, his poetry and imagery, his poetry (some of which is translated for the first time into English), his apparent solipsism and longing for the horizon of the world and of perception, his homunculism and much, much more. c. 20 pages with several illuminating reproductions. Heidelberg 2007, 21 pp. A5, numbered and signed edition of 100, 17 euros 28) Three Ballets and 1 Small Play Terpsichorean high jinks - dystopias or utopias, depending on your view - starring diamond-studded coryphees and prima ballerinas, Gertrud Stein (if memory serves well a juke box and a shotgun, a topiaried garden, a wedge, some cheese and much much more. 38 A6 pages, published in Bilbao, 2010, signed and numbered edition of 100, € 14. Worth it alone for the glassine! 29) Miroirs A a series of faux philosophical speculations on that hoary old anomaly that mirrors can invert laterally, but not vertically, extended to questions of space in general, but taking its stimulus from the likes of Martin Sharp. Eye-blistering psychedelia used to distract from linear arguments in lnie with bataille, so I am told. 48 A4 pages plus a fold-out poster cover make this a highly attractive proposition at € 90 (signed and numbered edtiion of 20). Printed in high gloss, 160 g top paper, published in Lower Mustang, 2010 30) May Your Genes Repent In many ways a footnote - the project that was to have been, but that turned into Madame Sans Gene (see above), only to resurrect in this tome. Pretty wraps, waggish texts and drawings, nice for a rainy day. 50 pages, high quality 160 g A4 paper, published 2009 on a pirate ship off of the east coast of Africa. 80 euros Glassine cover. 31) m-maybe m-maybe (a girl’s picture) an homage (also in its appropriativeness) to Roy Lichtenstein and a bold look at the effect he has exerted on the Internet, unwittingly producing texts of great sexual candour and daring which the author bravely trawled through and collected the Google offerings one weekedn in 2010 before adding his own variations on one of Roy’s iconic works. 21 x 21 cm on 160 g paper, edition of 100 signed and numbered and gradually being printed and published by Red Sphinx’s sister operation 8also called Red Sphinx) in Botswana but available here via the Internet or via the usual channels. Plain wraps in glassine, price 30 euros, most reasonable for over 40 pages like this: (a text sample)