KOPFBAHNHOF/TERMINAL: WITH IRON BALLS & SOMETHING LIKE IT…
Leipzig: Gerti Fietzek/Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 1995. First edition of 121, of which this is no. 80. 13 x 24 x 3 cm (5.1 x 9.5 x 1.2 in) two-piece cardboard box with title stamped on lid containing eighty-one folded timetables printed in black and blue or black and red on white or off-white paper all held together with a belly band printed in black and yellow. Text in German. Numbered and initialed in pencil by the artist on belly band.
Multiple by Lawrence Weiner in the form of train timetables with each one featuring a text work by the artist. Published by Gerti Fietzek for the Friends of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig on the occasion of Weiner’s exhibition ‘KOPFBAHNHOF/TERMINAL’ held at the Leipzig Central Station March 16–31, 1995.
Ref. Goldstein, Ann, Donna De Salvo, eds.: ‘Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE 1960–2007.’ Los Angeles/New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2007, p. 389.
Box very good with trace amounts of toning and light fading to stamped title. Timetables near fine with faint bumps to corners from being slightly smaller than the box. Item #1017
Price: $350.00