Book for "Calligraffiti of Fire" at Galerie Samy Kinge, 1986




Paris, France: Galerie Samy Kinge and Academia Foundation (exhibition catalog, inscribed), 1986.
7" x 8.875" x 0.25" (closed); 7" x 85" (open), accordion-folded image.
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The exhibition for Brion Gysin's Calligraffiti of Fire, as exhibited at Gallerie Samy Kinge, Paris, France, between 19 March and 19 April 1986. This is an accordion-folded book that shows the complete 18+ meter painting when opened fully. 

This was inscribed by James Kennedy McCann of the Academia Foundation (which both funded the creation of the work and was its first owner after exhibition) to Roger Knoebber:

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Roger
I made my statement about Brion, it has taken 10 years to be know [sic], this was his last hurrah. Prepredictative, this cannot be expressed in terms of each other, it his works looks out, thou looks through, out and in again, this third relation (Brion's third mind), bears rather a fourth relation, namely that of existing in our communion of belonging to what is written and drawn with other beings...
James

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