Westeast No.3: Partisan People, 1979
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photocopy, offset print, felt-pen, stamp on paper
32,5 × 23,5 cm
edited by Franci Zagoričnik and Živko Kladnik
anthology: catalogue, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, July-August 1979
edition 182 / 300
“Westeast 3 – Partisan People” is the catalog of an exhibition held at Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana in July and August of 1979 and was edited by Franci Zagoričnik and Živko Kladnik. It was in 1977 that Zagoričnik had started the international anthology “Westeast,” modelling it after the experimental poetry anthologies of the publishing house Geiger in Turin, Italy. For this endeavor, Zagoričnik wrote a letter to fellow artists in which he solicited submissions of A4-format works. He also asked them to notify other avant-garde artists in their country about the project, giving them his address in Kranj, Slovenia. In 1978, the first issue—entitled “Westeast: avant-garden party”—was released in Ljubljana, an occasion that also marked the inception of the international Westeast Concretism Association. The 1979 exhibition ended up showing more than 100 artists’ approaches to mail art, visual poetry, and concrete poetry. Its catalog features works by most of the artists in the exhibition, some of whom are represented in the Kontakt collection (such as Attila Csernik, Katalin Ladik and Slavko Matković), documenting their work in line with that of international artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Klaus Groh, and Timm Ulrichs. W.S.
32,5 × 23,5 cm
edited by Franci Zagoričnik and Živko Kladnik
anthology: catalogue, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, July-August 1979
edition 182 / 300
“Westeast 3 – Partisan People” is the catalog of an exhibition held at Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana in July and August of 1979 and was edited by Franci Zagoričnik and Živko Kladnik. It was in 1977 that Zagoričnik had started the international anthology “Westeast,” modelling it after the experimental poetry anthologies of the publishing house Geiger in Turin, Italy. For this endeavor, Zagoričnik wrote a letter to fellow artists in which he solicited submissions of A4-format works. He also asked them to notify other avant-garde artists in their country about the project, giving them his address in Kranj, Slovenia. In 1978, the first issue—entitled “Westeast: avant-garden party”—was released in Ljubljana, an occasion that also marked the inception of the international Westeast Concretism Association. The 1979 exhibition ended up showing more than 100 artists’ approaches to mail art, visual poetry, and concrete poetry. Its catalog features works by most of the artists in the exhibition, some of whom are represented in the Kontakt collection (such as Attila Csernik, Katalin Ladik and Slavko Matković), documenting their work in line with that of international artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Klaus Groh, and Timm Ulrichs. W.S.