Westeast 4. Verbo-Voco-Visual
Belgrade, Gallery Piran and Brace Stamenkovic Gallery of the National University, 1980. Edited by Franci Zagoricnik and Zivko Ladnik. Printed linen hard cover, 30 x 23 cm, approx. 250 pp. with original artists' works executed in various techniques such as collage, photocopy, offset, ink and stamps. Limited edition of 300, this copy numbered 217/300 and signed by the Brazilian artist Luiz Guardia Neto on the first page.
Comprises the fourth issue of the Westeast anthologies, assembled by Zagoricnik and Ladnik, and published in conjunction with two exhibitions in Belgrade. Includes original collages, object montages, visual poetry and some theoretical texts in English, Slovenian and Croatian. With an essay on Verbo-Voco-Visual poetry by Vladan Radovanovic, and a loose inserted flyer titled 'Studio Signum & Westeast IV', 1980. Artists' contributions by Jeremy Adler, Goran Babic, Brane Bitenc (collage with safety pin), Peter Below, Joseph Beuys, Julien Blaine, Ulises Carrion (the now famous self-portrait stamp), Bill Gaglione, Gordana Kunaver (collage with coloured tape and yarn), Andrzej Lachowicz, Katalin Ladik, Vlado Martek (pencil object), Eugenio Miccini, Zoran Mirkovic, Maurizio Nannucci, Michele Perfetti, Ruth Wolf Rehfeldt, Robert Rehfeldt, Sarenco, Peter Stembera, Pet Zena (original felt-tip work), Balint Szombathy and many others.