0 Plus Moins Zero (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Elisabeth, Stepháne & Anne-Marie Rona. 1973 - 1993. 1973
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Black-and-white illustrations throughout.Complete set. ?+ - 0? was published by Elisabeth Rona, founder of Galerie les Contemporains, along with her son Stepháne and daughter Anne-Marie. Inspired by Documenta 5, the magazine was deeply committed to fostering international dialogue. The first issue was created on the occasion of…the Düsseldorf Art Fair in October 1973. The Rona family produced the large-format black-and-white magazine themselves in the basement of their house, which was built around the gallery, using a secondhand Heidelberg printing press. Plus moins zéro published artist?s writings, interviews, criticism, and artists? projects with an emphasis on conceptual art in Europe and the United States. Its pages include original artists? contributions by André Cadere, Charlier, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Ulay & Marina Abramovi?, Nyst, Cuvelier, Lohaus, Schwind, Lennep, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Lizène, Daniël Dewaele and others. ?For most of the 1970s and 1980s it was the most informative and innovative magazine for contemporary art in Belgium.? (Johan Pas). [Ref. Johan Pas - Artists? Publications: The Belgian Contribution, p. 130; Gwen Allen - Artists? Magazines. An alternative space for art, p. 230]. Original wrappers, stapled or loose broadsheets as issued. Nos 1 - 84 + the extra eight supplementary ?bis? numbers (50 - 57 bis). (Issues 1-57: 34.5 x 25 cm; later issues 40 x 28 cm).
