[JEANSELLEM VIEWER] — HERVE FISCHER ART ET COMMUNICATION MARGINALE TAMPONS D'ARTISTES 14-26.03.1975 — Categories: letters, docs, press — Keywords: Galerie S:t Petri, Jean Sellem, archive — Category: letters — Paris, 5 May 1974Dear friend,I am pleased to announce the publication of “ART ET COMMUNICATION MARGINALE – TAMPONS D’ARTISTES”.In this book I have brought together the stamps of more than 140 artists from every country, generally taken from significant documents and postal mailings.This is the first time that such an artistic subject has been treated systematically.The book is not distributed in the usual way: you will not find it in bookshops (only a few specialised bookshops will sell it).Produced through correspondence, it must be distributed in the same way and by ourselves. This parallel, or underground, distribution — the only one possible for a book of this kind, unsaleable in station kiosks and on the conventional market — is very difficult.It is therefore necessary for us to organise ourselves in order to make the publication possible (and the distribution it entails) for other books of the same kind, too often excluded from publishing today.For this reason, everyone receives a certain number of prospectuses to distribute themselves around them.I hope you will approve of this method and that you will agree to take part in it. If you have any suggestions or proposals, please write to me.Beyond the distribution of this book, it is a much broader project from which we will all benefit.Thank you in advance.With friendly greetings,Hervé Fischer59, rue Brillat Savarin, Paris 13thtel. 588.32.62 — — — Category: letters — — — Category: letters — PHARMACIE FISCHER & Ciepills for votingpills for deathpills for lovepills for having childrenpills for not having childrenhygienic pillspills for thinkingpills for being calmpills for being cheerfulpills for watching TVpills for reading the newspaperpills for taking your mind off thingspills for getting some oxygenpills for curing mad peoplepills for being originalnew pillsfamily pillspills for artistspills for criticspills for collectorspills for coldspills against nuisancespills for sleepingpills for getting excitedpills for conversationpills for the headpills for the lungspills for the heartpills for the hairpills for the eyespills for catspills for plantspills for arthritisideological pillspills for dandruffpills for workingpills for holidayspills for listening to the violinpills for reading poemspills for taking the metropills for the carpills for walkingpills for feverpine-pillswine-pillswater-pillsvitamin pillsmeat-pillsbutter-pillspills for beautypills for memorypills for intelligencepills for reasoningpills for believing100% excipientreimbursed by social insurancePHARMACIE FISCHER INC.PILLSrenewableThe Pills, that's life!Paris, 8.3.75Prescription for Jean Sellem,A - one pill each dayB - one box each weekC - one pill each eveningD - one pill each morningE - one pill each hourF - one pill each week-endG - one pill each morning, when you get up.Henri FischerPHARMACIE FISCHER INC.pills and vitamins59, Rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 ParisTo feel well, take Pills!(International Campaign for Pills)Pills are life!(International Campaign for Pills) — — — Category: letters — <p><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">14 April 1975</span></p> — Dear Jean Sellem,A moment ago, I learned that the package of stamps has (finally) arrived at the I.C.C. in Antwerp! Phew! I am relieved.In the meantime, I went to Belgrade, where I had been invited to give a lecture on sociological art. Despite the doctors’ orders (I was not supposed to leave my bed because of the pneumonia I caught — nothing serious), I went there anyway.And on Thursday I will go again (secretly!) to Brussels, where I am transforming the Galerie Hervé Alexandre into the Pharmacie Fischer et Cie.I passed on your plan of Galerie S Petri to J. F. Bory. As for the rest, I am waiting for news from Canada and for a decision in Paris from the bureaucracy concerning the Stamps exhibition. — I hope you will like the Bory exhibition. Discuss the dates with him. I am very happy that you are considering doing it, because he is an excellent friend and I like his work very much.Warm regards to you, dear Jean Sellem, hoping that one of these days we will see each other!Hervé Fischer — — — Category: letters — — — Category: letters — <p><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Paris, 22 November 1980</span></p> — Dear Jean Sellem,I am currently seeking a grant from the Ministry of Labour to develop E.S.I.’s publishing activities. Could you write me a nice letter, on proper letterhead, attesting to the international importance of E.S.I. and expressing the hope that I might further develop its activities in continued collaboration with you, as far as Sweden is concerned.Thank you in advance.Hervé Fischer — — — Category: letters — Paris, 19 Dec. 80Jean SellemDear Jean,Would there have been any doubt that you might propose an event to me with Fred Forest and Jean-Paul Thibaut. I understand as well that the malicious actions of my two former friends against me do not alter our friendship. I would like that to be so.Having no desire to add to this petty, shabby avant-garde game, which is absolutely contrary to the idea of sociological art, I did not wish to reply with a leaflet in order to re-establish the truth of the facts; I have had my own version distributed in 3,000 copies.In the same spirit, and in the name of the friendship we have for one another, I am telling you of my wish: that you do not allow Forest and Thibaut to… — I must inform you that I have resigned from the Collectif d’art sociologique and from the École Sociologique Interrogative. It is paradoxical that I should be the one to leave, but we no longer had anything in common except (illegible) and the determination to harm me systematically, which I (feel).Consequently, while Forest and Thénot are of course free to do and say whatever they wish together, they no longer have any right to do so in the name of the collective or of the École Sociologique Interrogative, whose dissolution I have requested. I am also discontinuing the publication of the Cahiers ES.May I add, Jean, that this letter is private and must remain so, as I have no intention of contributing to their campaign. I ask you not to communicate it to anyone. I trust you, and send you my warmest regards and best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.P.S. There is no need for you to reply, if you prefer not to.Hervé — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — — — Category: docs — — — — — Category: docs — — — Category: docs — — — Category: press — — — Category: press
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EDITION AFTER HAND
HENRIK HAVE
15-24.02.1975
15-24.02.1975EDITION AFTER HAND HENRIK HAVE
Galerie S:t Petri S:t Petri Kyrkogata 5 Fack 7, 221 01 Lund 1, Sweden Tel. 046-14 78 00
From 15–24 February 1975, Galerie S:t Petri in Lund presents the Danish experimental publishing house Edition After Hand.
According to Henrik Have, who founded the edition at the beginning of the 1970s, Edition After Hand is more of a concept than a publishing house. The goal was first and foremost to publish books and objects (multiples) by Have himself. However, editions by other artists, such as the American Ken Friedman, have also been produced. A magazine of the same name as the publishing house has recently been launched and has published six issues so far.
Henrik Have describes Edition After Hand as follows:
“It has become apparent in the work with writing and image (not least in the aftermath of the May 1968 revolt in Paris) that the definition of a state can no longer be said to be about the difference or independence of things, but rather about the process itself — which contains the invisibility of things.
The only form that exists is the private one (outside of and with others – it exists nowhere else); the only possible recognisable publicness.
Edition After Hand is the schizophrenia between the private and the public. Schizophrenic because there are no boundaries between these states. Schizophrenic because the states of political struggle are defined in order to create linguistic and social proof of the absence of one of these states.
Edition After Hand has arisen out of these states.
You are beautiful, and what you say explains nothing, but is the process: you are beautiful.
Edition After Hand is a process — not a goal.”
The exhibition is open on weekdays 15:00–20:00, and on Saturdays and Sundays 12:00–17:00.
