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The result is a structured yet fluid progression in which drawings and printed images interweave, evoking imaginary landscapes while fixing the material logic of print.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe publication includes a title page and two printed text pages that situate the work within a collaborative environment shaped by experimentation and exchange. In a dedication acknowledging the parallel presence of Dieter Roth at the school and his engagement with the Rotaprint press, Schmidt writes: “In January 1968 a new person and a new machine appeared at Watford. Both worked badly (well). I learned some new words: beauties, refreshing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003everfänglichkeit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e [meaning something like ‘trickiness’ or ‘awkwardness\/precariousness’], and was advised not to worry. This book is the result of these new acquaintances. 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Beginning in 1969, Heinecken collected and dismantled magazines, developing an important body of work that explored the mechanisms of appropriation. In a gesture of critical infiltration and détournement, he sometimes returned his altered magazines to newsstands, allowing them to circulate unsuspectedly and disrupt readers' expectations. Politically charged, his practice conceived of the artist’s book not as a static object but as a performative field. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeinecken created \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMANSMAG: Homage to Werkman and Cavalcade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by converting every page of the men's erotic magazine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCavalcade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e into a negative and then reassembling the pages in random order. Using a newly acquired small offset press, he produced 120 unique copies in his studio, each distinguished by different rainbow-coloured inks that frequently rendered the images and text partially illegible. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe work pays tribute to the experimental printing techniques of the Dutch avant-garde artist Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, who established a clandestine printing house during the Nazi occupation and was executed by the Gestapo in the closing days of the Second World War. 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The publication originated in Byars's first European exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp, which consisted of three performances. During the final week, the artist sat behind an opening cut into a gallery wall, painted the same distinctive pink as the book's pages, and wrote in public. The texts reproduced in this volume were composed during this performance. Some recount episodes from his life, while others take the form of short and witty philosophical aphorisms:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"At first sight, do you perceive the full potential of a circumstance?\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I went to Oxford just to find out what questions existed in the philosophy department.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"If you ask for something that doesn't exist, you deserve it on the intelligence of the request.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I wear a black leather suit and like clear light bulbs; do you think I'm Wittgenstein's ghost, too?\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a 1969 interview with Geert Bekaert and Walter Van Dijk (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStreven\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, vol. 22), Byars described the book as \"a sample\" rather than the story of an entire life. 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Built as a sequence of die-cut pages, each sheet is silkscreened in either red or black over a shifting white ground, creating a rhythm of contrast and variation as the book is turned. The result is a playful yet sculptural object in which squares and angular cuts constantly reconfigure the page. These rhomboid and geometric incisions evoke a sense of constructed space that is both precise and unstable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn dialogue with the legacy of Malevich’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack Square\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Schmidt’s work revisits the idea of non-objective reality, not as a fixed abstraction but as something mutable and perceptual. The shifting forms suggest a visual system that is repeatedly reset and reactivated. 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Fragments of language clipped from magazines intermingle with photographs, graphic forms, and Ford's own paste-up poems to create layered compositions that draw equally on the visual language of Pop and the oneiric logic of Surrealism, all infused with his characteristic wit and queer sensibility.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduced through an experimental industrial photo-offset lithographic process, many of the posters are effectively monotypes. 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