GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994
8501
AQUI Poster 1985
Screenprint on paper, folded in plastic wrapper with
offset label
Wrapper: 295 x 445 mm; print: 1750 x 1140 mm
(unfolded)
Edition of 500, some signed, unnumbered
Published by AQUI, Brooklyn
Reproduces General Idea's design of the Ghent Flag as an oversize print.
See 8403, 8404.
8502
Europa 1985
Lithograph on paper: 610 x 533 mm and 590 x 533 mm
Edition of 14 plus 3 A/Ps, signed and numbered
Self-published
The paper is embossed with the logo of Open Studio, Toronto, where it was printed during an artist-in-
residence program.
8503
FILE Megazine (vol. 6, no. 3, 1985) 1985
"Diane Frankenstein Issue"
Web offset periodical, 80 pp. plus cover,
black-and-white reproductions: 355 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
Published by Art Official Inc., Toronto
All pages reproduce drawings and text by John Scott a.k.a. John "Mary Shelley" Scott.
8504
General Idea (Middelburg Tile) 1985
Hand-painted ceramic tile and offset catalogue, 22 pp. plus cover, blue-and-white reproductions, in black card box with blue hot-stamping
Box: 215 x 215 x 20 mm; tile: 150 x 150 x 4 mm
Edition of 200, signed and numbered
Published by De Vleeshal, Middelburg
Produced to accompany the installation Khroma Key Klub: the Blue Ruins from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, created for the exhibition
Remnants of the Miss General Idea Pavillion in De Vleeshal, Middelburg, 19 January - 10 February 1985. The half-poodle/
mermaid is a comment on the province of Zeeland's shield, a lion wrestling with waves. Catalogue texts by Andreas Oosthoek, and interview by Peter van Beveren.
8505
LIP 1985/94
Gouache on found offset pamphlet, 20 pp. plus cover, hand-bound in gold leather with pink tissue:
278 x 215 mm
Edition of 12, signed and numbered
Self-published
After a fashion house published a catalogue photographed against a backdrop of General Idea works, the artists altered these copies by eliminating the
models with overpainting in chroma-key blue gouache.
8506
Mondo Cane 1985
Screenprint on paper: 735 x 1024 mm
Edition of 25 plus 5 A/Ps, signed and numbered
Published by Open Studio, Toronto
The paper is embossed with the logo of Open Studio, Toronto, where it was printed during an artist-in-
residence program.
See 8301, 8302.
8507
Self Immersion 1985
Lithograph on paper: 565 x 760 mm;
A/Ps: 530 x 750 mm
Edition of 14 plus 4 A/Ps, signed and numbered
Published by Open Studio, Toronto
The paper is embossed with the logo of Open Studio, Toronto, where it was printed during an artist-in-
residence program.
8508
Sigarbox 1985
Wood-burning on wood box, metal, packaging label (offset on paper), 10 cigars: 135 x 168 x 25 mm
Edition of 200, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Publishing House Bˇbert, Rotterdam
Produced for the boxed set of artists' multiples From Source to Use, Contemporary Archaeology Pandora Part One 1985.
8509
Untitled (Moneybags) 1985
Lithograph on paper: 570 x 380 mm;
#11/11: 530 x 380 mm
Edition of 11 plus 1 A/P, signed and numbered
Published by Open Studio, Toronto
The paper is embossed with the logo of Open Studio, Toronto, where it was printed during an artist-in-
residence program.