Endre Tót
Editions
1975 - 76
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00 JUNE 1975
What's more, I took another job, /school/ again at the beginning of the year, but now there's only one or two days left and school's out. I'm looking forward to it more than the kids. I hate school, I've been doing it for ten years!
Excerpt from a letter sent to publisher Thomas Howeg on JUNE 00 1975
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Below and above: Cover and back cover of the original layout.
● For Dialogue, as with my other zero-texts, I didn't want total sterility either. Dialogue should be considered a verbatim manuscript. Any erasures, uncertainties, etc. are entirely up to me. The medium here is the facsimile! I'm not interested in cosmetics here. So, somewhat irregularly, I feel it's much more expressive: visual, and far from literary. It's specially typed, as an English daily also wrote, summer 1973: "Mr. Endre Tót, who specialises in typing noughts on sheets of paper is already here.
I'm very interested in the fate of DIALOGUE and our dialogue too. Please write quickly now
Excerpt from a November 1974 letter to publisher Thomas Howeg
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NULLIFIED DIALOGUE by Endre Tót
Bern: Artists Press; Hinwil (Switzerland): Howeg, 1975*16 numbered pages, semi-rigid cover, dust jacket, stapled binding, 210 x 150 mm; black-and-white offset printing.
Edition of 200 signed copies, including 20 reserved for the artist, justified A.P. and numbered.
*1975 and not 1974 as mentioned on the justification page (see Endre Tót's letter in the additional information section).
Our copy is number 11, A.P. Justified and numbered 11/20 on the 3rd cover. See additional information.
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Nullified Dialogue, dedicated to 00 and released at the beginning of 0000, is a dialogue between 000000 and 000, made up of supernumerary dialogues.We asked publisher Thomas Howeg if the AP 11/20 rating was indeed from Endre Tót :
here's his reply: ja das waren Künstlerexemplare die e.t. so signiert hatte (Email from 23.08.2023).
November 1974 letter to publisher Thomas Howeg
Here is the November 1974 letter to publisher Thomas Howeg, from which we have quoted passages translated from German into French.
BUDAPEST 00.NOV.1974
I'm now hard at work on a one-man show for July /The Jerusalem Museum/(1975). There are two large rooms and before me, there was no less than Jan Le Gac. Dibbets, Boltanski ... In other words, I have to make a lot of effort.- Thomas, can I ask you to send two copiesof Nullified Dialogue to the museum?
Extract from a letter sent to publisher Thomas Howeg on 00 MAR 1975
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RAINPROOF IDEAS 1971 - 1974 Typed by Endre Tót
Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1975.
20 unnumbered pages, semi-rigid cover, 210 x 156 mm; black-and-white offset printing.
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RAINPROOF IDEAS was published as catalog no. 137 and as an artist's book for Endre Tót's exhibition at the Israel Museum (July-August 1975) in Jerusalem.
Indeed, the complete edition includes an embossing entitled "Braille Rain", which was produced in a print shop in Israel from an original by the artist.
The book Includes bibliographical references (page18).
Our copy includes the invitation to the exhibition at the Israel Museum in English and Hebrew (92 x 21 mm).
Reproduced below is page xxx of RAINPROOF IDEAS which is the lexical definition of the word "Rain" in English. Endre Tót copied it from an English dictionary:
RAINPROOF IDEAS 1971
rain rūn n. l. Water in drops discharged from the clouds. 2. Anything likened to such a shower of water, as a rain of bullets. - vi. &vt. l. To fall in drops from the clouds. 2. To fall like rain. 3. To cause to occur as if in showers, as, to rain compliments upon one. - less adj.
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STARS FROM POLAND
Lund: Jean Sellem edition, Galerie S:T Petri, 1975.
1 sheet, 430 x 310 mm, center-folded, blank cover.
Published on the occasion of the Endre Tót exhibition held from October 17 to 29, 1975 at Galerie S:T Petri Archive of experimental and marginal art
Edition of 11 copies numbered from 0 to 10 and signed in pencil.
2 original stamp impressions in red ink.
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STARS FROM POLANDThe 3 original postcards used for the edition are in our possession. Endre Tót partially covered them with zero. All 3 are signed and dated on the back in pencil.
3 documents related to this edition
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A4 letter from Endre Tót to Jean sent in October 1975
A4 letter
Excerpt:I really like STARS FROM POLAND. It was your great idea and I'd like you to take it up: STARS FROM POLAND by JEAN SELLEM & E.T. It's OK. I didn't have much time to write an explanation and if you want, you can use the Ken Friedman essay* I sent. The other things that came with it, I picked them out of the zerOs because I didn't want other things to get mixed up on the show. I didn't want other ideas to distract from the zerOs covering the POLISH STARS. The STARS are almost zer000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000 anyway, and when we say that, they're totaly ZER0000000000000S. Aren't they? OK?
* I've just received a message from Ken: he's writing to send you his essay, which I sent before Ken's letter... You can see that we work telepathically.
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C6 envelope containing a folded cover (240 X 335 mm) of the Hungarian newspaper "CSALADI LAP" number XXIV of 1975, on which Endre Tót wrote to Jean Sellem.
CSALADI LAP
Front envelope
Envelope backDear Jean
I'm so sorry we could only be together for such a short time. I'm sorry we couldn't realize your wonderful idea: STARS FROM POLAND or STARTS OF POLAND. I really like it, and it would be great if you could finish it. You see, I too write on the body of a Stars / STAR FROM HUNGARY
When will we be like stars, Jean?
How's your gallery coming along? Send me pictures and publications about it Dear Jean, I'm really glad to have met you, because your opinion about STARS & ARTS is the same as mine. YEssssss, it is OK because WE ARE OK! Isn't it? You've made me really want to go to Lund, and as it seems now, it's not so impossible. - Did you get home all right? Are you all right? Write soon. LOVE LOVE LOVE Endre
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Postcard, on the front reworked with a typewriter by Tót and on the back details about the Stars of Poland edition. Sent to Jean Sellem in a C6 envelope.
Mja
Enveloppefront
EnveloppebackThe motif on the card (Anders Zorn, Maja 1900 *) reproduced above has been overlaid with zeros, and at the mouth Tót stamps his hilarious face. At the top, he has typed in Swedish: Jag är glad om jag kan skriva n0ll0r (I'm happy if I can write zeros)
On the back of the card, Endre Tót writes:
00 OCT 1975
Dear Jean, from my letter carrier's bag protruded your pipes like cannon tubes. - Full of (Stars from Poland). Thank you so much for this! I quickly signed them, numbered them from 0 to 10. and I also sent you 10+0 pieces. Did you receive them? And did you receive my documentation, and I've sent you two other letters since then, in the last few weeks. Dear Jean, thank you for the show. Wait for your letter, Love, Endre & Tót.*Maja
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ZEROPOST
Es ist wunderschön gemacht!
Geneva: Edition Howeg & Ecart, 1976.
Sheet of postage stamps. Sheet size 298 x 213 mm; printed in green.
Edition of 1000 copies.
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ZEROPOST 1976,
There were also 50 copies in light green (see ALMANACH ECART, page 141).The first edition, in black, was published in 1974, see the 1974 Editions page.
The joys didn't need an audience - most of the time, they were only seen by the person taking the photos (János Gulyás). I have no idea about the technical side of photography. I've never taken a photo - unless it was of myself (in the background) or my shadow, in which case I was handed a perfectly adjusted camera. I've used photography "only" as a documentary image, and I've only made (technical) demands on the photo to show clearly what I'm happy with.
Endre Tót in: Beke László örülök , ha... Fotomuveszet 1976
For some photos, the caption is superfluous, but I want to use it everywhere for the sake of unity and monotony.
Excerpt from letter 28.3.76
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TÓTalJOYS /1971-75/ by TÓT
Geneva and Hinwill (Switzerland), co-publication: Geneva, Ecart Publications; Hinwill, Edition Howeg, 1976.
12 unnumbered pages, semi-rigid cover, stapled binding, 210 x 146 mm; black-and-white offset printing.
Edition of 650 numbered copies.
Our copy is 569, signed in pencil by the artist on the justification page.
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Letter dated 28.3.76 sent to the publisher Thomas Howeg with the mention:
Some remarks on TOTalJoys (June 1976)
Letter dated 28.3.76 sent to publisher Thomas Howeg
Letter dated 28.3.76 sent to publisher Thomas Howeg back/Some remarks on TOTalJoys (June 1976)/ :
Print all pages in black
I'd like the booklet to resemble that ofA. Messager /La Femme et...//Ecart/. So the cover in cardboard, the inside pages in thinner paper /on which the photos are easy to reproduce/. OR: cover and inside pages of the same paper, but the paper must be of medium thickness. I'd also like the type of letters in the catalog to be similar to those in Messager's book, which I really like. I've indicated the place of the text and photos on the sketch. They will be surrounded by a uniform 1.5 cm "frame" on each page. The sentences are all written in large type / without numbering/./Enlarge on the cover, reduce the letters on the penultimate and last pages. For some photos, the caption is superfluous, but I want to use it everywhere for the sake of unity and monotony. For photos where my smiling face isn't visible, add the photo of the laughter /As with the telegram. So: you can see where 😃 goes in the layout, which is:😃.COVER* :
photos with thin/original border attached to photo/ Howeg gallery etc... please fix the text.
PENULTIMATE PAGE :
Photos by Janos Gulyas and the author.
LAST PAGE :
You & John, please fill in the legal notice / Only my name TÓTal and normal should appear: © Endre Tót
GAUDEO, ERGO SUM this Latin phrase, please check it with John: /GAUDEO = I am glad/ OK? /Cogito, ergo sum zerOkay/ On March 28, I sent the photos numbered 9, 10, 12. THANK YOU THANK YOU LoVE
TOTalJoysVerso
GAUDEO, ERGO SUM
