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Abracadabra #1

Abracadabra was an international magazine of poetry and arts that ran for 5 issues from 1977 to 1981. Editor-in-chief of the short-lived magazine was Marcello Angioni (1939), a Sardinian who had moved to Luxembourg and from there published Abracadabra with co-editors poet, artist and Swiss-Italian architect Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995) and Dutch photographer Harry Hoogstraten (1941). The magazine brought together a choice of American and European poets and artists, combining English and Italian poems and texts…

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herman de vries – to be all ways to be

Herman de Vries (1931), who prefers to have his name spelled ‘herman de vries’ to avoid hierarchy in capital and lower case letters, was trained as a gardener in the early 1950s. After a spell as an agricultural worker in France, De Vries worked in Wageningen at the Institute for Research Plant Diseases from 1952 to 1956. During that period he started his long and fertile practice as an artist. The monochrome and informal paintings from…

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Fluxus Anthology 60 Year Anniversary 1962-2022

Slowscan Vol. 58 is a collection of 10 recordings of varying length released on cassette in a hand made and silkscreened box. Produced in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Fluxus the box not only holds a treasure of recordings of leading Fluxus artists but is also a fine piece of work itself. Apart from the 10 cassettes the box contains four inserts, one of which is an detailed tracklist. Available via Sea Urchin are the last copies of this loving tribute…

€ 225.00

François Kupka – L’Argent (L’Assiette au Beurre no. 41, 11 January 1902)

L’Assiette au Beurre was an anarchist French satirical magazine founded by Samuel Schwarz in 1901. The magazine was published as a weekly from 1901 to 1912 and as a monthly from 1921 to 1925. Under the editorial supervision of Schwarz – which only lasted from 1901 to 1903 – the magazine invited established artists, such as Félix Valloton, Jacques Villon, Kees van Dongen and Frantisek Kupka, to take care of the design. In January 1902 Kupka produced an issue of L’Assiette au Beurre…

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Ischa Meijer’s Magazine No 1

Soon after Ischa Meijer was born in Amsterdam in 1943, he and his parents were deported by the Nazis to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The young Jewish family survived the camp and returned to Amsterdam after the war, where two more children were born. Fearing the rise of communism in Europe, Meijer’s parents and their children moved to Paramaribo in the early 1950s but, unable to adjust to life in Surinam, returned to Amsterdam a couple of…

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