Michel Cardena. Artist's book, catalogue and ephemera

(1) Black and white and sometimes colourful No. 2. Enschede, Aki, 1980. Artist's book, printed transparent plastic wrapper, 20.5 x 20.5 cm, 31 pp. B/w documentation of performances interspaced with blue and red drawings on translucent paper. Wrapper slightly bubbled, else an excellent copy. (2) Cardena. Rotterdam, Boymans-van Beuningen, 1981. Softcover, 29.5 x 22 cm, 60 pp. Overview of Cardena's video works and performances from 1969 to 1982, ill. in b/w. Light creasing along spine, else very good.

(4-9) Six announcement cards for solo projects including: Cardena is going to read hot passages from The Holy Bible and Pellaprat's Modern Cookery Book, Amsterdam 1974; Encounters? Studio Walseman, The Hague 1975; Correction of a Catachresis, Amsterdam 1976; Peaceful New year 108 years after betrand russel, 1980; Peaceful New Year 110 A.B.R., 1982; Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1981. Mostly mailed copies. (10) Poster announcement for videoscreening of 'Somos Libres !?', De Appel Amsterdam 1981. (total 10) Miguel-Ángel Cardenas aka Michel Cardena (1934-2015), was a Colombian-Dutch artist working in a variety of artistic media. He is well-known for his pioneering role in video arts in The Netherlands and his humorous and sexually loaded 'warming-up' performances. In 1972 he founded the artists-run In-Out Center in Amsterdam.