Textile Without Textile

[54] sheets (most A4 format), loose as issued, housed in orig. brown printed & stamped folder. Budapest: Artpool, 1980.


One of 300 copies, the first Hungarian portfolio of assembled art. It was edited and designed by György Galántai (b. 1941) of the Artpool Art Research Center, a haven for Eastern European avant-garde movements established in 1979 in Budapest. Each artist contributed a pagework, there are a total of 52 contributions (two consist of two sheets), resulting in an astonishing range of creations. Interventions based on the titular prompt have been made with photographic prints, tears, folds, pencil and ink drawings, stamp impressions, collage, stencil, watercolor, photocopies, etc. It includes artists, many involved with the mail art network, from West Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Poland, Switzerland, United States, Belgium, and Yugoslavia.


Artists: John Furnival, Piet Franzen, Anikó Bajko, András Bán, Eva Fáy, György Galántai, Lujza Gecser, Judit Gink, Péter Legéndy Gyula Pauer, Ferenc Veszely, Vittore Baroni, G. A. Cavellini, Gino Gini, Marco Pachetti, Piero Simoni, Ana Lupas, Anna Moor, Andrezj Wielgosz, Balint Szombathy, Marc van Hoe, etc.


In fine condition, complete with 52 contributions on 54 sheets. Glued elements of one collage have come loose but are present. We find only four copies in North American institutions.


❧ G. Perneczky, ed., Assembling Magazines: 1969-2000, p. 197.