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[BANANAPPEAL..] - David Robilliard
£200.00
ROBILLIARD, David.
[BANANAPPEAL..]
Original artist postcard work. B&w text on card [105 x 145mm] printed to one side only. Numbered as 158 in a limited edition of 300 copies only. Signed by the artist in red pen. [London]: Birch & Conran Fine Art, 1988.
A postcard edition by artist David Robilliard (1952-1988) featuring three of his characteristic bittersweet poems. This series was published by Birch & Conran as A Box of Poems following the release of Robilliard's second volume of poetry Swallowing Helmets in 1987. Robilliard first initiated the postcards as a piece of mail art printed in letterpress by art dealer Paul Conran and sent out to a small group of friends.
This postcard series was released in 1988, the year of the artists' death at age 36, as a result of HIV/ AIDS. While Robilliard would move into painting canvases that he called 'poem paintings' the use of witty, instinctive texts continues in a painted form. Robilliard's initials or signature, as seen here in the postcard edition, would also become an integral part of his painted artworks.
The texts on this postcard reads:
BANANAPPEAL
I like bananas because they have no bones
I like the peel because it stops
other people fingering my food
A CANDLE IN THE DARK
- is better than nothing at all
SUN DRENCHED DATES
Sultana Xray
or someone gorgeous
to do wonderful things with
[BANANAPPEAL..]
Original artist postcard work. B&w text on card [105 x 145mm] printed to one side only. Numbered as 158 in a limited edition of 300 copies only. Signed by the artist in red pen. [London]: Birch & Conran Fine Art, 1988.
A postcard edition by artist David Robilliard (1952-1988) featuring three of his characteristic bittersweet poems. This series was published by Birch & Conran as A Box of Poems following the release of Robilliard's second volume of poetry Swallowing Helmets in 1987. Robilliard first initiated the postcards as a piece of mail art printed in letterpress by art dealer Paul Conran and sent out to a small group of friends.
This postcard series was released in 1988, the year of the artists' death at age 36, as a result of HIV/ AIDS. While Robilliard would move into painting canvases that he called 'poem paintings' the use of witty, instinctive texts continues in a painted form. Robilliard's initials or signature, as seen here in the postcard edition, would also become an integral part of his painted artworks.
The texts on this postcard reads:
BANANAPPEAL
I like bananas because they have no bones
I like the peel because it stops
other people fingering my food
A CANDLE IN THE DARK
- is better than nothing at all
SUN DRENCHED DATES
Sultana Xray
or someone gorgeous
to do wonderful things with
