Richard Artschwager, Untitled (Utrecht Projekt)

Utrecht, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst/ De Kargadoor, 1972. Catalogue/artists’ book, 21 x 19 cm, 32 pp. With inserted 45 RPM flexi disc. Published on the occasion of the manifestation ‘Sonsbeek 71’. Includes an interview with the artist by Wouter Kotte in English and Dutch. Mint copy. Rare.

In the late 1960s Richard Artschwager (1923–2013) started making his famous ‘blp’ (pronounced ‘blip’) sculptures, lozenge-shaped forms that act like punctuation points in public spaces. For the Sonsbeek project the blps were affixed throughout the town of Utrecht, which is documented in the catalogue. The record presents evenly spaced sound-tics, on Side One and Side Two.