AXE

Revue.

[#21026]
Volume 1-3 complete (all publ.), Antwerp, Guy Schraenen editeur, 1975/76. Magazine in 3 volumes. Softcover, 30 x 21 cm, printed in offset, typography and silkscreen on various kinds of papers. Contains collages, objects, fold outs, cut outs, small booklets by contributing artists. Designed to be the successor to Henri Chopin's periodical OU. Each volume includes a 17 cm record with sound poems: Henry Chopin and Brion Gysin (Axe 1), Brion Gysin et Francois Dufrene (Axe 2), Sten Hanson (Axe 3). All covers are designed by a different artist. Published in a limited edition of 500 copies, of which 120 are signed and 370 copies unsigned but numbered. This is numbered copy 393. Features a signed inscription on the slipcase by Guy Schraenen for Lidewijn Reckman: Van Harte Dank 17 januari 1992 Amsterdam,slipcase sides loosenin (Reckman collaborated with GS on the production of the Ulises Carrion exhibition ‘ We have Won haven’t We’ at Museum Fodor Amsterdam in 1992 ).
Contents
AXE 1: Roy Adzak, Eduard Bal, Bram Bogart, Henri Chopin, Degottex, Mirtha Dermisache, Bernard Aubertin, Bernard Heidsieck, J.P. Schelfhout, Ung No Lee, Miko Van Daele, Paul van Ostaijen, Oscar Jespers.
AXE 2: Antoine de Bary, Maurice Benhamou, Hugo de Clercq, Francois Dufrene, Servula Esmeraldo, Rene Guiette, Brion Gysin, Bernard Heidsieck, Plessi.
AXE 3: Jo Delahaut, John Giorno, Brion Gysin, Sten Hanson, Bernard Heidsieck, Arrigo Lora Totino, Franncoise Mairey, Klaus Ritterbusch.

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