WOW No. 5

Novi Sad (former Yugoslavia, now Serbia), Katalin Ladik and Balint Szombathy, 1978. Four stapled sheets, 50.5 x 17.5 cm, printed b/w both sides, folded once horizontally. Edited and designed by Balint Szombathy. Features artists' contributions (mostly reproductions of works from 1975-1976) by Ante Vukov, Nicola de Maria, Petr Stembera, Paul Neagu, Robert Rehfeldt, Gábor Tóth, Michael Gibbs, Peter Below, Katalin Ladik, Mirella Bentivoglio, Stephen B. Cox, Eugen Gomringer, Józef Markulik, Vladimir Gudac, Miroslav Klivar, Padin and Caraballo. Text in English, with some Serbo-Croatian. Extremely rare, in very good condition.

Wow was an alternative art magazine (self-described as 'small press of small artists'), of which six issues were published between 1974 and 1980. The experimental art publishers Ladik and Szombathy were former members of the Bosch+Bosch group, a platform of neo-avant-garde artists from Vojvodina, Serbia and Hungary. The group played an instrumental role in establishing connections with related movements and artists throughout Europe.