GUY SCHRAENEN ÉDITEUR
Origianal publications in limited edition
The publishing house Guy Schraenen éditeur (Antwerp/Paris) was founded in 1973. From the beginning on, it was devoted to visual arts, sound poetry and film. Its affiliated Printing Workshop functioned as a very early artist residence where artists were invited to explore, conceive and realize, among others, silkscreens, small offset publications and mimeographed works. Guy Schraenen éditeur published artists' books, magazines, catalogues, postcards, multiples, prints, records and films. Numerous exhibitions of these publications have been organized. The publications are represented in most international artists' books collections. Still available publications: go to CONTACT or ORDER. Information can also be found in this CATALOGUE.
TEXT • SOUND • IMAGE
ROY ADZAK
Screws
Hand made object book, 24 pages with imprints.
Größe: 6,5 x 4 cm.
1976
20 nummerierte und signierte Kopien.
ROY ADZAK
Deshydratations
Study about Dehydratations of vegetables.
Size 42 x 32,5 cm.
1976
40 numbered and signed copies.
Eduard Bal & Henri Chopin: Ecarts de Bal, 1976. Reference: Eduard Bal
EDUARD BAL
Le dernier livre de Schmoll
15 original collages on music paper.
Includes a record object.
Size 31 x 31 cm.
1977
10 numbered and signed copies, presented in a slip case.
EDUARD BAL
Tape Piece
Realized in electrography.
Size 21 x 15,5 cm.
1977
50 numbered and signed copies.
ALEXANDRE BONNIER
12 Rapports techniques sur des choses possibles
82 pages entirely realized in facsimile. Design: Guy Schraenen.
Size 30 x 21,5 cm.
1977
88 numbered and signed copies.
Special edition: 12 copies with an original work are presented in a glass box (size 30 x 21,5 x 7 cm).
ULISES CARRION
The Poet's Tongue
First edition:
Cassette with sound works by Ulises Carrión which again reflect his passion for language, its structures, its sounds and its meanings.
Guy Schraenen éditeur, Antwerp, 1977
Reeditions:
1. Vinyl record: Alga Marghen, 2012
2. CD: Alga Marghen; in: Guy Schraenen: Dear Reader. Don't Read,catalogue, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2016
Review + tracks:
LOURDES CASTRO
D'Ombres
Book complete in silkscreen, based on photographs of the shadow play by Lourdes Castro. Pages under a rhodoïde cover. Photographs and design: Guy Schraenen.
Size 20 x 30 cm
1974
250 copies, numbered and signed.
Book of the month Oct. 2018:
HENRI CHOPIN
29 novembre 74. Portrait des 9
Visual Poetry. Portrait of the "common market". Graphic text in two colours.
Size 30 x 21 cm.
1975
480 copies, numbered and signed
Special edition: 20 copies with an original work, numbered and signed.
Reference:
- Film on this book by Henri Chopin: 'Portrait des 9'
ANTOINE DE BARY
Livre
Object book of 24 pages with original polychrome drawings and one sculpture. All copies, hand made by the artist, are presented in a lackered box.
1974
12 copies, numbered and signed.
ANTOINE DE BARY
Marie-Odile
Book with cut outs, texts and drawings realized on papers of various textures and colours.
Size 28 x 22 cm.
1973
60 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 12 copies with an original drawing, numbered and signed.
GILBERT DECOCK
Varuna
Entirely printed in silkscreen on carboard 500 gr. The book contains 28 cut outs.
Concept: Guy Schraenen.
Size 40 x 40 cm.
1973
125 copies, numbered and signed.
DEGOTTEX & MAURICE BENHAMOU
Affleurement du Chant
Fully printed in screen print on Velin Arches 300gr. and on polyester.
9 texts by Maurice Benhamou. 9 transparent pages with white lines by Jean Degottex.
Polyester cover also silkscreened with Degottex white lines. Box with laminated printed title label.
Size 40 x 60 cm (closed), 80 x 60 (open)
1976
80 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 9 copies with manuscript and original cover, numbered and signed.
LUC DELEU
Manifest aan de Orde
Raport / Manifest of the artist and architect about a debate on the "Ordre of Architects".
Size 21 x 31 cm.
1982
25 copies, numbered and signed.
MIRTHA DERMISACHE
Diario n° 1
Artists' book issued in folio size newspaper format.
Graphisms without informational remit preserve the architecture of the newspaper.
Size 47 x 36 cm.
1975
1000 exemplares.
Special edition: 300 exemplare, signed.
References:
- Martha Wilson chooses Diario n° 1 as her favorite item in the MoMA Library: MoMA's Reading List
- Comment on Diario n° 1: Witness Mirtha Dermisache
MIRTHA DERMISACHE
Cahier n° 1
Book of 29 pages of mimeographed "graphisms". All graphisms directly printed from the original stencils. Publisher's wrapper.
Size 27,5 x 21,5 cm.
1975
130 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 20 copies with original carbon work, numbered and signed.
PETER DOWNSBROUGH
Cut
Book with original hand stamps and two b/w photos.
Size 22 x 16,5 cm.
1994
20 exemplares, numbered and signed.
FRANÇOIS DUFRÊNE
Œuvre désintégrale
First edition:
3 cassettes in a slip case, Guy Schraenen éditeur, Antwerp, 1976
Reeditions:
1. Three vinyl records in a box: Alga Marghen, 2007
2. Three CD’s in a box: Alga Marghen, 2007
3. Selection; in: François Dufrêne. Affichiste, sound poet, catalogue, Museu Serralves, Porto 2007)
Review + tracks:
BILL GAGLIONE 1940-2040
Typewriter Stamp Poems
Selection of graphic poems and original stamps.
Size 21,5 x 16 cm.
1978
50 exemplares, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 5 exemplares with original work, numbered and signed.
GUESTBOOK
MUNTADAS – BAL – BARRIO – BENHAMOU – SZOMBATHY – MIRALDA – PEETERS – MOL – HOCKS – DACHY – DE CHARMONY – CARRION – MAIREY – PINGUILLY – DERMISACHE – RITTERBUSCH – JONES – LAGARDE – BELIS – MARIN – BANANA – GAGLIONE
23 original hand imprints made by some of the artists who visited our studio.
Size 29,7 x 21 cm.
1976-1978
50 copies numbered and signed (25 copies reserved for the collaborators).
BERNARD HEIDSIECK & EDUARD BAL
Portrait-Pétales
Book containing a 17 cm record by Bernard Heidsieck. Illustration: Eduard Bal.
Concept: Guy Schraenen.
Size 38 x 38 cm.
1973
120 copies with silkscreen prints, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 50 copies with 4 collages, presented in a slip case, numbered and signed.
De Luxe edition: 8 copies with 4 collages and one original work by Eduard Bal, presented in a slip case, numbered and signed.
Reference:
- Portrait-Pétales at the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen
BERNARD HEIDSIECK
Foules
Book printed on several coloured papers, based on writing collages “Les 100 Foules d’octobre 1970" by Bernard Heidsieck. Design: Guy Schraenen.
Size 28 x 20 cm.
1974
480 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 20 copies with an original “writing-collage”, numbered and signed.
BERNARD HEIDSIECK & FRANÇOISE JANICOT
Encoconnage
Photo book including 92 arranged photo documents by Guy Schraenen of Françoise Janicot's performance on the poem Passe-Partout n° 9 by Bernard Heidsieck.
It contains also a 30 cm record with version 1 and 3 of Encoconnage Passe-Partout
n° 9 by Bernard Heidsieck.
Photographs and Design: Guy Schraenen.
Size 31 x 31 cm.
1974
480 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 20 copies with a photo collage by Françoise Janicot, numbered and signed.
Reference:
- Encoconnage was presented in the exhibition "Open Book. Artists' Books and Photography" at Paris Photo 2014 together with a film on the photo book: Paris Photo 2014
FRANÇOISE JANICOT
Rendez-vous
One of the first and probably the largest "Xerox-Books", realized in xerography.
15 full page photographs. Concept: Guy Schraenen.
Size 45 x 58 cm.
1973
45 copies, of which only 20 could be realized, numbered and signed.
FRANÇOISE MAIREY
Substitution
Series of graphic compositions realized on a typewriter and based on piano exercises. Design: Guy Schraenen.
Size 45 x 58 cm.
1977
45 copies, numbered and signed.
NANNE MEYER
(untitled)
Book which reflects the characteristics
of the artist’s work.
Size 21 x 14,5 cm.
1993
500 copies, numbered and signed.
YVES PINGUILLY
Le texte tel et… à suivre
Series of “insciptions” on red paper.
Size 16 x 22 cm.
1977
240 copies, numbered and signed.
Special edition: 10 copies with an original manuscript, numbered and signed.
VLADAN RADOVANOVIC
Becoming Distinct / Instinct
Sound cassette
Guy Schraenen éditeur, Antwerp, 1977
Magazine, limited edition of 500 copies, printed in offset, typography and silkscreen on various kinds of papers. All contributions are presented differently with cut outs, objects, fold outs etc.
Size: 30 x 21 cm.
1975/76
- 3 issues (complete). Each issue includes a 17 cm record of sound poetry. All covers are designed by a different artist.
- Special edition: each issue contains numbered and signed works. The first 10 copies also include an original work and a Super 8 film made by an artist.
AXE 1
ROY ADZAK (O) – EDUARD BAL – BRAM BOGART – HENRI CHOPIN (D) – DEGOTTEX (C/N/F) – MIRTHA DERMISACHE – BERNARD HEIDSIECK – J.P.
SCHELFHOUT (N) – UNG NO LEE (N) – MIKO VAN DAELE – PAUL VAN OSTAIJEN - OSCAR JESPERS
AXE 2
ANTOINE DE BARY (N) – MAURICE BENHAMOU – HUGO DE CLERCQ – FRANÇOIS DUFRÊNE (D/F) – SERVULO ESMERALDO (N) – RENE GUIETTE (C/N) – BRION GYSIN (D) – BERNARD HEIDSIECK – PLESSI (O)
AXE 3
JO DELAHAUT – JOHN GIORNO – BRION GYSIN (C/N/F) – STEN HANSON (D) – BERNARD HEIDSIECK (O) – ARRIGO LORA – TOTINO (N) – FRANÇOISE MAIREY (N) – KLAUS RITTERBUSCH
C=Cover; D=Record; F=Film; N=Numbered and signed work; O=Original
References:
Poésure et peintrie : d'un art, l'autre : [catalogue d'exposition], Marseille: Centre de la Vieille Charité, 12 février-23 mai 1993, p. 597:
"Toutes les œuvres sont des originaux à tirage limité. C'est l'une des plus belles et des plus intéressantes revues, car elle comporte à la fois les poésies sonore, visuelle et
verbale."
(All works are limited edition originals. It is one of the most beautiful and interesting magazines, as it includes sound, visual and verbal poetry.)
Revues
d'artistes, une sélection, catalogue de l'exposition, Lendroit Galerie, Rennes 2008
colleXtion1 and colleXtion suite are a series of object books. Each one is conceived as an artwork. Many of these books, printed in offset, silkscreen, mimeography or realized in xerox, contain an object, a collage or another insert.
COLLEXTION 1
Slipcase with 10 book objekts.
Size 11 x 15 x 2,5 cm (each book 11 x 15 cm).
1975 - 1977
480 copies, numbered.
EDUARD BAL - Middelheim 20/21.8.1978
ANTOINE DE BARY - Mis sous envelope le 14 juillet
MICHAEL GIBBS - 5 coloured alphabets in black and white
BRAM BOGART - Peinture
ROY ADZAK - Fire-imprint
MAGLIONE - La leçon de broderie
JOHN BELIS - 3 sculptures
SERVULO ESMERALDO - Méthode prtique et illustrée pour construire un excitable...
HUGO DE CLERCQ - Framework
AESCHBACHER - Aeschbacher de Bechi-Bouzouk
COLLEXTION SUITE
Slipcase with 5 book objekts.
Size 11 x 15 x 1,2 cm (each book 11 x 15 cm).
1975 - 1977
480 copies, numbered.
LUCIO DEL PEZZO - ABC
KLAUS RITTERBUSCH - "Oh, wie ich deine Kurven liebe!"
GERALD MINKOFF - The theorie and praxis of rubber stamping
BERNARD VILLERS - Trace
COZETTE DE CHARMONY - Mon centimètre volant
COLLEXTION 1
Special edition: Box with 10 book objekts, each one with an original signed work or a multiple.
Size 11,5 x 17 x 21,5 cm.
20 copies, numbered and signed.
COLLEXTION SUITE
Special edition: Box with 5 book objekts, each one with an original signed work or a multiple.
Size 11,5 x 17 x 11,5 cm.
20 copies, numbered and signed.
In Octavo is a series of ten artists’ books, in which the books follow the in-octavo-form (the printed sheet has been folded three times, giving eight sheets, or sixteen pages).
Each artist created a book reflecting the characteristics of his own work.
All contributions are presented differently with fold outs, colored prints, various papers etc.
1990-1991
Slip case with 10 books, 500 copies, numbered.
Special edition: Slip case with 10 books, 20 copies: each book with an original signed work or a multiple, numbered and signed.
Size 15 x 21 x 18 cm (each book 21 x 14,5 cm).
AESCHBACHER – Tian Aden
GIANNI BERTINI – Mes cartes
HENRI CHOPIN – mil 1000 mille dates
LUC DELEU – Barcelona towers
DENMARK – Multum, non multa
PETER DOWNSBROUGH – For rent
WILFRIED HUET - Eque
JIRI KOLAR – Le vin des mots
MARIE ORENSANZ – Communiquer…
BERNARD VILLERS – Géomemétrie variable
GRAPHIC WORKS & MULTIPLES
(see also the special editions of IN OCTAVO, COLLEXTION and REVUE AXE)
EDUARD BAL
Le dernier livre de Schmoll
Record object with collage and painting.
Size ø 30 cm.
1977
50 copies, numbered and signed.
EDUARD BAL
Three multiples (collage and offset print), presented in a collage portfolio.
Size 76 x 55 cm.
1977
10 copies, numbered and signed.
LOURDES CASTRO
Furrows
Eight silkscreens on thin cardboard by Lourdes Castro including the poem “Furrows” by Wade Stephenson.
Size of each silkscreen: 90 x 65 cm.
1974
20 copies, each print numbered and signed.
Lourdes Castro, Furrows, 8 silkscreens incl. Furrows by Wade Stevenson, 1974
GILBERT DECOCK
Box containing 12 three dimensional silkscreen prints.
Size 46 x 46 cm.
1973
10 copies, numbered and signed.
BRION GYSIN
Roller Poem
Graphic poem presented in a rhodoïde tube.
Size 120 x 22 cm.
1977
90 copies, numbered and signed
GEORGE SMITS
Personal Sound Maker
Do-it-yourself kit to build your own instrument/sculpture.
Including an audio cassette with sound pieces by George Smits.
[1977]
Size 80 x 30 x 23 cm.
9 copies, numbered and signed.
POSTCARDS
SINGLE POSTCARDS
ARTHUR AESCHEBACHER* – EDUARD BAL – RENE BERTHOLO – BRAM BOGART – HENRY BZODOK – LOURDES CASTRO – HENRI CHOPIN* – ANTOINE DE BARY – HUGO DE CLERCQ – GILBERT DECOCK – JO DELAHAUT – MIRTHA DERMISACHE – FRANÇOIS DUFRÊNE * – HENRI GABRIEL – RENE GUIETTE – BRION GYSIN – BERNARD HEIDSIECK – FRANÇOISE JANICOT – J.H. KOCMAN – FRANÇOISE MAIREY – GERALD MINKOFF – MAURIZO NANNUCCI – MARIE ORENSANZ – PLESSI – ENDRE TOT* – EMMETT WILLIAMS*
* these cards are not included in any wallet
15 CARTES POSTALES DE…
EDUARD BAL – RENE BERTHOLO – BRAM BOGART – LOURDES CASTRO – HENRI CHOPIN – ANTOINE DE BARRY – HUGO DE CLERCQ – GILBERT DECOCK – DEGOTTEX – JO FELAAHAUT – HENRI GABRIEL – RENE GUIETTE – BRION GYSIN – BERNARD HEIDSIECK – FRANÇOISE JANICOT
Wallet containing 15 postcards from works especially created for this edition.
1974
Size 14,7 x 10,5 cam.
300 copies, numbered and signed by the publisher.
STAMP POSTCARDS
EDUARD BAL – HENRYK BZDOK – JORGE CARABALDO – MICHAEL GIBBS – HORST HAHN – ROBERT JACKS – J.H. KOCMAN – GERALD MINKOFF – MAURIZIO NANNUCCI – MURIEL OLESEN – GABOR TOTH - BEN VAUTIER
Wallet with 12 postcards with original rubber stamps prints.
1977
Size 14,7 x 10,5 cm.
Special edition: 250 copies, numbered and signed.
MIRTHA DERMISACHE
4 cartes postales
Four postcards with her "graphisms" in transparent envelope.
1978
Size 11 x 15,8 cm.
100 copies, numbered and signed.
