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CHAMPASSAK. The Veil of Maya 1. S.l., L'Artiste, 2018, fort - Lot 804
CHAMPASSAK. The Veil of Maya 1. S.l., L'Artiste, 2018, fort 4°, [2000] p., br. in publisher's folder with flaps and laces. First edition of 35 copies, justified and signed by the artist. This imposing artist's book by Tiane Doan na Champassak, materializes on paper, the flayed skin of a city: layers and layers of colorful posters and promising advertisements covering the walls of Calcutta... In mint condition / IDEM. The Veil of Maya 2. S.l., Siam's Guy Books, 2019, 4°, [44] p., br. in a wooden openwork case, presented in a screen-printed cream cloth bag. Original edition of 35 copies, justified and signed by the artist (ex. no. 1). Tiane Doan na Champassak pays tribute to Robert Heinecken in a bold act of "reappropriation". He restores a positive dimension to "Mansmag" and brings the pages of "Cavalcade" into dialogue with his own collection of vintage Thai erotic magazines, "Siam's Guy". Artist's book in mint condition / IDEM. The Veil of Maya 3. S.l., L'Artiste, 2020, 4° square with 1 beveled corner, publisher's boards. Original edition of 35 copies, with 2 Fujiflex Crystal Archive prints signed and numbered on the spine. The mysterious images that make up this experimental artist's book are made up of contact sheets of female nudes from the 1960s, showing the wear of time and traces of humidity.... In mint condition / IDEM. The Veil of Maya 4. S.l., L'Artiste, 2022, large 8°, [64] p., green half cloth. Original edition of 35 copies, justified and signed by the photographer. Includes 8 single pages of hand-pasted collages. "The Veil of Maya 4" re-enacts the fetishistic charisma of Thai albums from the 1970s. Using a facsimile of a naughty but incomplete school notebook found at a Bangkok flea market, Doan na Champassak decided to reanimate his stories by filling the empty pages with original cut-outs from his collection of adult magazines from the same period. In mint condition / IDEM. The Veil of Maya 5. S.l., Siam's Guy Books, 2023, 4°, 56 p., br. Original edition of 35 copies, justified and signed by the photographer (ex. no. 1). Includes 1 original collage. Tiane Doan na Champassak reinterprets the work of Albert Oehlen (°1954) in the light of current nudity standards, masking the children's genitals with cut-outs from another book by the same artist, entitled "Secession" / IDEM. The Veil of Maya 6. S.l., Siam's Guy Books, 2024, 4° agenda, unpaginated, br. Original edition of 35 copies, justified and signed by the photographer (ex. no. 1). This sixth issue brings together two distinct projects: the first unveils a collection of enigmatic photocopies, fragments of an ancient manuscript on palm leaf exploring themes of sexuality and eroticism; the second includes 36 covers of "white books", remnants of illicit erotic novels that circulated clandestinely on the black market in the 1960s. Mint condition. Rare complete set / Ens. 6 vol.
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