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salto/arte SaltoArte Salto/Arte Pour Écrire la Liberté SaltoArte One of the only 100 Deluxe copies Edition POUR Écrire la Liberté, Brussels, Belgium, 1975. Boxed set of objects by 31 artists. In a varnished red card clamshell box: 37 x 30 x 7.8 cm. Deluxe copy of 'Salto/Arte' which includes signed multiples by a variety of artists and the original printed subscription form for the publication signed by Panamarenko and Beuys. Edition size: XXI + 100 (I to XXI considered as the "original edition), 1 to 100, being the Deluxe edition, signed and numbered), 900 copies of the normal edition. This copy is one of the 100, n° 66/100. Deluxe copy of 'Salto/Arte' includes signed multiples by a variety of artists and the original printed subscription form for the publication signed by Panamarenko and Beuys. When left-wing publisher and editor of POUR journal (1973-1982), Jean-Claude Garot entered into a financial crisis, Belgian collector and diamond merchant Isi Fiszman offered to create an artistic event, the exhibition "Je/Nous – Ik/Wij", place Flagey, Ixelles (Brussels, inaugurated on May 23, 1975) under the Salto/Arte marquee in 1975 where artists could practice their circus acts, performances and where were sold their works to support the publication of the POUR journal. A boxed set of editions and multiples was produced and sold as a result of the "Salto/Arte" happening, with all proceeds going to the financing of POUR magazine. The boxed set was published in an edition of 1000, with this one of 100 Deluxe with the individual pieces signed and/or numbered by each artist. Contents of the box: - ANATOL - Untitled (Die Handpüppe) - colour photolithograph, folded (286 x 390 mm). Signed and numbered in pen by Anatol. - Carl ANDRE - Material on Hubert Vilopox collected by Carl Andre - envelope containing seven offset lithographs (296 x 210 mm) - numbered from the edition of 100 on envelope. - Igninio BALDERI - Untitled - offset lithograph (290 x 357 mm) - signed and numbered in pencil by Balderi, lower right. - BEN - J'aime la liberté - colour photolithograph on newsprint (359 x 283 mm) - signed and numbered by Ben Vautier in black pen. The artist has also drawn a large black cross across the printed text with black gouache. - Joseph BEUYS - Une comparaison entre deux structures sociales - polyethylene bag, printed (410 x 293 mm) - signed and numbered in blue ballpoint pen by Beuys. The bag contains three sheets - i. Double sheet (355 x 277 mm), folded, printed in black on four sides with reproductions of photographs by Caroline Tisdall of the action Coyote. Signed in red pen by Beuys; ii. Single sheet, printed on one side with reproduction of photograph by Ute Klophaus of the action Iphigenie/Titus Andronicus. Signed in red by pen by Beuys; iii. Sheet of yellow paper, printed in black with impression of Stück 17. [Ref. Schellmann - Joseph Beuys, The Multiples, no. 149]. - Christian BOLTANSKI - A Mourir de rire - single sheet, photolithograph (355 x 285 mm) - signed and numbered by Boltanski in pencil. - James Lee BYARS - Luck - gold pencil drawing on crumpled sheet of black tissue (520 x 520 mm) - with gold US quarter dollar coin - numbered in white pencil, lower right corner of sheet. - Jacques CHARLIER - Plein le cul de l'art en général - photolithograph, folded (355 x 560 mm). Signed and numbered in pencil by Charlier, lower right corner. - CHRISTO - Pour Journal, wrapped - an issue of POUR folded and wrapped in transparent polyethylene with cord, mounted on black card (280 x 340 mm) - numbered in pencil on black card. [Ref. Schellmann - Christo and Jeanne-Claude Prints and Objects. A Catalogue Raisonne, no. 90]. - Johannes CLADDERS - The White Flag - large folded sheet of white cloth (unfolded 1194 x 815 mm), with ink-stamped title. Signed and numbered by Cladders. - Pierre DAQUIN - Untitled - photolithograph, folded (360 x 575 mm) - signed and numbered by Daquin in blue pen. - Hanne DARBOVEN - Texts by Charles Baudelaire - 72-page artist book (350 x 270 mm) - numbered in pencil on front cover (corresponding stamped numbering on colophon page of book). - Robert FILLIOU - Pour et contre Robert Filliou - 2-colour print on white card, folded into a triangle shape (270 x 210 x 120 mm). This copy signed and numbered by Filliou. [Ref. Robert Filliou, Editions et multiples, 2003, no. 59]. - Hans HAACKE - Exxon - colour photolithograph (35.5 x 25 cm) - numbered from the edition of 100 on verso of sheet. - Pierre Alain HUBERT - Corde à dénouer le temps - single sheet photolithograph with collaged section of ἀrecracker string. Signed, numbered, and titled by Hubert in pen (28.6 x 35.7 cm). - Douglas HUEBLER - Untitled (Tug of War Painting) - single sheet, colour photolithograph (35.8 x 27.8 cm). Numbered in pencil. - Jörg IMMENDORFF - Für wen ? - colour photolithograph (26.4 x 35.7 cm) - signed, numbered and dated in pencil by Immendorff. - Jean LE GAC - My Creative Method - photolithograph (35.7 x 28.5 cm) - signed and numbered in pencil by Le Gac. - Sol LEWITT - Grids - 8-page artist book, stapled (25 x 25cm) - signed and numbered (from edition of 150) by LeWitt in blue pencil on rear cover. [Ref. Maffei & De Donno - Sol LeWitt Artist's Books, pp. 60-61]. - Bernd LOHAUS - Untitled - collage on card - signed and numbered in pencil by Lohaus. - Konrad LUEG-FISCHER - Untitled - blue checquer pattern printed on cloth-backed vinyl sheet (35 x 27 cm) - signed and numbered by Lueg-Fischer in blue pen on verso of sheet. - Annette MESSAGER - Le barbu d'Annette Messager, la femme tatouée - single sheet photolithograph (35.5 x 28.5 cm) - signed and numbered in pencil by Messager. - J. NICOLA - Nous voulons respirer - poster printed in black on newsprint, folded into quarters (sheet 57 x 70 cm) - signed and numbered on recto in blue pen by Nicola. - Yoko ONO - Couple Event - offset lithograph on paper, folded (35.5 x 56 cm) - numbered in pencil from the edition of 100. - PANAMARENKO - the printed cardboard box housing the other multiples - the lid, designed by Panamarenko shows the artist in Chinese dress complete with the large beetle, as he presented himself at the Salto/Arte happening on May 23, 1975. Signed and numbered by Panamarenko in black felt-tip pen on underside of box. - A.R. PENCK - Macht und Geist. analytische studie zu Kunst im politischen Kampf - 32-page offset-printed booklet, not stapled as issued. Signed and numbered by Penck in pen on back cover. Jacques PINEAU - Untitled - folded single sheet, offset-printed (unfolded 36 x 57 cm). Signed and numbered in pencil by Pineau. - Sigmar POLKE - Messerwerfer (Knife Thrower) - 4-colour offset litho on art paper (26.6 x 25.8 cm). Signed in pen by Polke lower right corner, numbered in another hand. [Ref. Becker & Osten - Sigmar Polke. The Editioned Works 1963-2000 Catalogue Raisonné, no. 47]. - Katharina SIEVERDING - Kaka Lemoine & Katharina Sieverding Show - colour photolithograph (35.2 x 28.8 cm) - signed and numbered in pen by Sieverding, lower right of sheet. - Klaus STAECK - Je / nous art aujourd'hui - colour photolithograph poster, folded (sheet 60.8 x 43.4 cm) - signed, numbered and dated in red pen by Staeck. - Paul VAN RAFELGHEM - Untitled - single sheet, photolithograph reproduction of a pencil drawing (35 x 28.5 cm). This box symbolizes an important moment in the history of art and our culture: that of avant-garde art and the counter-culture of the sixties-seventies. It represents what was the deep spirit of the counterculture, the only time in recent history when this sort of thing has been possible because of what this counterculture was: a movement that involves and combines art, politics, contestation of the capitalist society and the culture it generates, and advocating civil disobedience, freedom, solidarity, generosity, fraternity, mutual aid, all with a single objective: justice and freedom in a new world! This avant-garde art has profoundly changed the history of art, this counterculture has changed, in part, our world. This is what this Salto/Arte box is: Hope. History of the Salto/Arte evening: "Between happenings and performances, the Salto/Arte evening has become, for many, because of its quite exceptional character, the most striking fact of this exhibition; It is undoubtedly Harald Szeemann's major contribution to the event: “I thought that such an exhibition would be interesting, but that a show from another dimension would be even better. I suggested to him [Isi Fiszman] to organize a gala evening in their circus tent with visual artists whose acts would mix with those of the professionals of the tent. With the exception of knife thrower Kaka Lemoine, however, no circus actor took part in the event, but an orchestra played between each artist intervention. Szeemann's instructions were quite broad, formulated to his interlocutors as follows: “for the circus show, we are looking for acts of three minutes of presence on the ring, in a freely chosen discipline: recitation, concert, acrobatics, juggling , high-flying, etc.” It will be remembered that Szeemann was, from Documenta 5, one of the first to take an interest in certain forms of popular art, of which circus artists are certainly a part. At that time, in the mid-1970s, we witnessed a pivotal moment during which the concept of happening gave way to that of performance, and where body art asserted itself as a movement in its own right, including video, then in full expansion, quickly became the preferred distribution medium. The circus tent was the one usually used for its meetings by the POUR team. It was erected on Place Flagey, not far from the museum, and the participants in the vernissage reached the place on foot. Announced a little pompously as a gala evening, the event oscillated between real shows and sometimes autocaricatural improvisations where Boltanski made a strong impression, in the same way as the pyrotechnic and very smoky show of Pierre-Alain Hubert, or the tap numbers of Kienholz or Katarina Sieverding. Ben delivered a concert in the pure tradition of Fluxus, on a white piano used later by Beuys in a contortionist act. Dressed in his “Chinese” costume, Panamarenko, in pursuit of his articulated cockchafer, did not go unnoticed either. The highlight of the show - the sequence that remained in the memory of the spectators - was of course the number of knife throws by Kaka Lemoine, to the rolling sound of the drums of the orchestra, with the target of actors from the art world. such as Katarina Sieverding, Beuys or Isi Fiszman himself. In the slightly crazy atmosphere of this evening, few are those who will have been able to see the performance of Byars performed outside the marquee or even realizing it: he briefly appeared in the square in the field of a powerful searchlight, long enough to walk to the tent, call Isi Fiszman and then of disappear, equal to itself. Although closely watched by the police and victim of a short power outage, the evening caused a sensation with these twenty artists gathered for performances as diverse as they are surprising, in a context quite different from that of a museum. The Museum of Ixelles earned a good reputation there in the small circle of contemporary European art, failing to have been able to seduce an audience other than aficionados, more or less aware of the singularity of the event at a time when things were not as formated as today." Bernard Marcelis in" L'ART MÊME", Chronique des Arts Plastiques de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, 1er Quadremestre 2021; dossier 12. (Translated from the French by us). Exibition: "Je/Nous" [W / IK / J: Art d'Aujourdh'ui], 23 mai-13 juillet 1975. "Pour" appeals to some sixty artists whom it asks to "contribute to the existence of all that has been constantly repressed". Both the list of participants in the exhibition and that of those who will take part in Salto/Arte is impressive, a good part of the international conceptual movement, taken in the broad sense, is present; many artists whom Harald Szeeman, Swiss curator, had already invited to Documenta V in 1972 responded to the call. ... The following artists are participating in both the "Je/Nous – Ik/Wij" exhibition and the Salto/Arte evening: Anatol, Iginio Balderi, Ben, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, James Lee Byars, Jacques Charlier, Daquin, Robert Filliou, Pierre-Alain Hubert, Edward Kienholz, Annette Messager, Nicola L., Herman Nitsch, Panamarenko, Jacques Pineau, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer et Katharina Sieverding, Besides these, one could also see in the exhibition works by Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, George Brecht, Daniel Buren, Christo, Roy Colmer, Commitee for Artistic Freedom, Walter De Maria, Fahlström, Hans Haacke, Jorg Immendorf, On Kawara, Chris Kohlhöffer, Jean Le Gac, Sol LeWitt, Bernd Lohaus, Konrad Lueg-Fischer, Toni Morgan, Yoko Ono, A.R. Penck, Daniel Spoerri, Klaus Staeck, Niele Toroni, Paul Van Rafelghem et Lawrence Weiner. SALTO/ARTE, The context, documents: DOCUMENTS that presided over the edition of the Salto/Arte box, preparing the event, soliciting artists and the result, the exhibition "Je/Nous – Ik/Wij", the show in the circus and the conception/manufacturing this box Salto/Arte. This event was created by Isi Fiszman and Harald Szeemann. This file of doucments includes This set of documents can be sold either with the Salto/Arte box or separately, as an idividual collection. - A typed letter by Iisi Fiszman, printed on one side in black ink on a sheet of white paper. 30.3 x 21.1 cm, January 14, 1975. Letter sent to artists whose participation in the event they wish. Letterhead Saltoarte in the left corner and, in the right corner, typed the title of the exhibition: Signed by Isi Fiszman in black ink. Iisi Fiszman was an Antwerp collector who hosted the alternative space A379089 in Antwerp, co-founder with Jean-Claude Garot of the weeklies "Point" and "Pour" - 2 b/w silver prints entitled "La Fête de Mai", circus tent and shows, 18.3 x 24.5 cm each. - 4 issues of the magazine "Le Point” - 4 issues of the magazine "Pour" and - 4 posters (newspaper supplements in support of the magazine” POUR”: 2 for the May Festival, 1 for Dario Fo's show "Mistero Buffo" by the Nouvelle Scène internationale collective and 1 advertisement for the magazine "POUR". Each: folded four times; unfolded: 57.7 x 67.7 cm. All the documents contained in a stamped brown kraft paper envelope with the rubber stamp "POUR", addressed to Marcel Broodthaers. Images of these 16 documents:     The Tent   Spectacles Happenings     Envelope to M. Broodthaers ..Letter by Isi Fiszman   ....         Le Point magazine   Pour magazine       ........ POUR, posters La Fête de Mai         We are interested in purchasing this box and artist books, multiples, prints and unique works of art by all these artists having participated in this event and this edition. Please contact us. Nous sommes intéressés par l'achat de cette boîte et de livres d'artiste, estampes, multiples et oeuvres uniques de tous ces artistes ayant participé à cet évènement et cette édition. Merci de nous contacter.     .

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