De Appel Amsterdam. Extensive collection of documentation, 1975- 1981

Assembling of 155 announcement flyers, posters and invitation cards. Documents the starting era of the groundbreaking international art, performance and video space, founded by Wies Smals in Amsterdam in 1975. Mostly A4 flyers, b/w offset printed, often adorned with a De Appel logo stamped in green. Some sheets feature perforation holes due to storing in a binder. Also includes cards, posters and a portfolio released in conjunction with the De Appel program. There is no record of all publications having been released, but it seems to have been limited to a max. of 200 items. This is the largest known assembling of the material.

Amazing artists' documentation featuring Abramovic/Ulay, Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, James Lee Byars, Camille Chaimovicz, General Idea, Hermann Nitsch, Urs Luthi, Gina Pane, Ulrike Rosenbach, Alison Knowles, Takako Saito, Michel Cardena, Raul Marroquin, Reindeer Werk and many more. Also contains several sheets concerning the project 'Feminist Art International', and the 'Works and Words' project on Eastern European artists in 1979. Notable large posters comprise the Hollandse Week/ Dutch Week (1976), Vito Acconci's The People Mobile, a project for town squares in Holland (1979) and Dutch Treat, an exhibition curated by Wies Smalls/De Appel at Franklin Furnace in New York (1980). Detailed listing on request.