Ben Vautier, Berlin Inventory, 1979
Published by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. Red vinyl portfolio with title card showing a passport picture of Ben, 16 x 22 cm. Contains eight stapled booklets, 21 x 15 cm, 20 - 64 pp. each, offset printed in b/w. Text in French, German, and English. Edition of 1000 released in conjunction with the exhibition travelling from DAAD Berlin to Daniel Templon gallery Paris, Bischofsberger Zurich, and the Musee d' Art et d 'Industrie in Saint-Etienne.
Booklets include: Préface; A letter from Berlin; Moi Ben je signe; Significations; Théorie; Autocritique et ego exercises; Vitrines et murs; Annie on my mind or my Berlin sexual phantasies. All in very good state. The inside of the red portfolio has black ink imprints deriving from an inlaid (badly) photocopied newsletter. Added: (2) Fluxus News Letter September 1981 by Ben Vautier. Two folded photocopied A4 sheets, with some wear due to the bad (sticky) quality of the photocopy. (3) Cauchem'art. Bulletin intérieur de la différence. Nice, Ben Vautier, 1986. Part of the bulletin series sent by Ben to art-world people between 1979 and 1988. Folded b/w photocopies, 21 x 15 cm, 44 pp. Edition of 400. (total 3)