PAUL ETIENNE LINCOLN
BY PROJECT
HOVER TO ENLARGE
GLOVERS REPOSITORY
BAD BANTHEIM SCHWEIN
TRIBUTE TO MADAME POMPADOUR
HYPERBARIC-HYPOBARIC
HYPERBARIC-HYPOBARIC (ADDT'L)
HYPERBARIC-HYPOBARIC (ADDT'L)
THE PURIFICATION OF FAGUS SYLVATICA VAR PENDULA
THE METROPOLIS OF METAPHORICAL INTIMATIONS
DIE BERLINER ZUCKERBÄRIN (CATALOGUE)
EQUESTRIAN OPULATORS AT THE HOUSE OF APPROXIMATE ODDS
A VIOLET SOMNABULIST SPIRITING THE FUGACIOUS BLOOM
A TRANSCRIPT TO UNREQUITED EUPHORIA
GINSMAID INSTRUCTION MANUAL
The Glovers’ Repository:
Bad Bentheim Schwein
Perfume Set
Box containing two conical glass vials (manufactured to the proportions of the Court): one contains three grams of perfume from the original performance of the Court, the other contains three grams of honey from the same event. Affixed to the inside top lid is a title label, and a b/w image of the garden at Versailles. The inside front lid bears a handcolored
foldout reproduction of a drawing depicting the flow of energy within the Court. 3 x 6 x 3 in.
Edition: 30 and 3 Artist's Proofs. Signed and Numbered.
Explication, Boxed Edition
Cloth-covered box with letterpress title label. Contains In Tribute to Madame de Pompadour and the Court of Louis XV (Explication) and supplementary images of the three Specimen Vitrines, both loosely bound together with a paper tape (201 in.,
500 cm long), bearing the names of the Encyclopedic Contributors, and a silk handkerchief, in one of three colors, each with one drop of gardenia essence. 15 x 101⁄2 in
Edition: 90 (30 powder blue, 30 rose pompadour, 30 golden peach handkerchiefs), and 3 Artist's Proofs. Signed and numbered.
Pompadour Glass Rose (l), Glass Blue (r)
Cloth case containing a sheet of glass silkscreened in very pale rose or blue ink with an image of Madame de Pompadour. This portrait is taken from a painting by François Boucher in the collection of the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. The size of the image has been determined from the true dimensions of a table in the painting. Accompanying the glass are two loose sheets of card, one bearing an identical image, but printed in 1% stronger ink, the other a text and an image of the table used to produce this facsimile. 20 x 16 x 11⁄2 in
Edition: 5 and 2 AP. Signed and numbered
Pompadour Glass Gold
The final glass in this trilogy, identical in format to the two preceding versions but silk-screened in an extremely delicate tint of gold. This portrait is taken from a painting by François Boucher in the collection of the Wallace Collection, London. The
size of the image has been determined by the mean distance between the pupils of Madame de Pompadour’s eyes in the two previous glasses. 20 x 16 x 11⁄2 in
Edition: 1 and 1 AP. Signed and numbered.
Exhibition Catalogue
New York: Christine Burgin Gallery, 1991.
Exhibition catalogue. Folded sheet printed recto only with
65 b/w illustrations. 133⁄4 x 91⁄2 in. unfolds to 40 x 28 in.
Edition: 3,000.
Ginsmaid©
New York: Paul Etienne Lincoln, 1990.
The Ginsmaid© is a gin and tonic dispensing icon which supplies varying strengths of drink by touching three points on the photographic image of Vera Lynn. It is an
extremely precise instrument only for the exceptional drinker. The machine is accompanied by a standard lead, a transformer which allows the machine to be used anywhere in the world, and an illustrated instruction manual containing a brief history of the machine, its operation, and maintenance procedures.
Edition: 10 and 1 Artist's Proof. Signed and numbered.
23 x 8 x 6 in.; 58 x 20 x l5 cm.
Epernay Epicurean
New York: Paul Etienne Lincoln, 1990.
Rhodium-plated two-part spinning containing an instrument which clips together forming a device to decant the entire contents of a bottle of champagne simultaneously into five flutes using the bottle’s inherent pressure. Accompanied by a signed manual.
Edition: 3 and 1 Artist's Proof
11⁄2 x 11⁄2 x 7 in.; 4 x 4 x 18 cm.
Ginsmaid© Manual
New York: Paul Etienne Lincoln, 1990.
A description of the workings and maintenance procedures for operators of the Ginsmaid©. 2 tipped-in line drawings.
Edition: 30 and 3 Artist Proofs . Signed and numbered, numbers 1–10 reserved for Ginsmaids©
41⁄4 x 11 in.; 11 x 28 cm
Epernay Epicurean Manual
New York: Paul Etienne Lincoln, 1990.
A description of the workings and maintenance procedures for operators of the Epernay Epicurean. 2 tipped-in line drawings.
Edition: 30 and 3 AP. Signed and numbered, numbers 1–10
reserved for Epernay Epicureans
41⁄4 x 11 in.; 11 x 28 cm
Nebuchadnezzar Attachment
New York: Paul Etienne Lincoln, 1990.
Rhodium plated two-part spinning containing a miniature 15 oz. nitrous oxide gas bottle, with valve and extension suction pipe fittings enabling the Epernay Epicurean to be fitted to a Nebuchadnezzar champagne bottle.
Edition: 3 and 1 Artist's Proof
11⁄2 x 11⁄2 x 7 in.; 4 x 4 x 18 cm.
Lincordion
New York: Paul Etienne Lincoln, 2008.
A fully functional 26-key, 48-bass transparent piano accordion made for the Hyperbaric– Hypobaric project. The specially constructed bellows have 38 folds concealing 300 Mylar windows; a tube of rarefied air positioned in the interior of the instrument is illuminated when the accordion senses a vacuum by passing violet light through these slots.
Vacuilluminesence©. is a unique feature of this instrument. All the base reeds are tuned specifically to enhance Monteverdi’s score of Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. The Lincordian is placed on a constructed resin crystal formed from a miniature sample found in the Grotto Verdi, the location for the film Undine’s Curse.
The Lincordian and the crystal are displayed in an illuminated vitrine measuring 24 x 24 x 371⁄2 in.; 61 x 61 x 95 cm
Edition: 3 and 1 Artist's Proof
14 x 171⁄2 x 71⁄4 in.; 35.5 x 44 x 19 cm.
Eau de Genève
New York: Paul Etienne Lincoln, 1994.
A primrose-yellow paper-covered box containing a glass bottle filled by La Haute Parfumerie de Ginsmaid©, New York, with three exquisite varieties of juniper berries and essence of this delicate perfume. The bottle has various paper labels and seals which describe its contents and is wrapped in a piece of black tulle cut to the form of the island of Capri. A label is affixed to the inside lid describing its history.
Edition: 30 and 3 Artist's Proof. Signed and numbered.
11⁄8 x 81⁄8 x 2 in.; 3 x 20.5 x 5 cm.
Mineralmaid©
New York: Paul Etienne Lincoln, 1994.
A primrose-yellow paper-covered box containing a glass bottle filled by La Haute Parfumerie de Ginsmaid©, New York, with three exquisite varieties of juniper berries and essence of this delicate perfume. The bottle has various paper labels and seals which describe its contents and is wrapped in a piece of black tulle cut to the form of the island of Capri. A label is affixed to the inside lid describing its history.
Edition: 30 and 3 Artist's Proof. Signed and numbered.
11⁄8 x 81⁄8 x 2 in.; 3 x 20.5 x 5 cm.
Evolutionary Links
New York: Alexander and Bonin, 2008.
A painted vitrine contains thirty printed boxes, each holding a metal sardine-style tin containing a unique engraved urethane link. Each link is engraved with the Latin name of one of 30 land and air-born creatures with unusual respiratory systems. The group shows the respiratory variation from a sponge to a canary. Two framed pigment
prints display 30 information cards describing each animal’s peculiar respiratory development.
30 x 36 x 8 in.; 76 x 91 x 20 cm.
Edition: 2
(details of a Link Box)
Undine's Curse
New York: Alexander and Bonin, 2008.
Brass pressure capsule with hinged etched glass window, housing a DVD of Undine’s Curse, a 20 minute color film, with 3 original soundtracks. The film, shot on location in northern Italy and the Hudson River, is an intrinsic part of the installation Hyperbaric–Hypobaric. Inside the brass chamber is 16-panel accordion-fold card containing information about the film, with 7 color images and 2 line drawings. A small sponge is attached to a post in the central cavity.
8 x 8 x 71⁄2 in.; 20 x 20 x 19 cm
Edition: 6 and 1 Artist's Proof. Signed and numbered.
The Purification of Fagus sylvatica var pendula
A monograph of the project by the same name with 24 b/w images of the distillation performance with explicatory commentary.
Clonmel, Ireland: Coracle, 2005
New York: Granary Books, 2005
Edition: 600 Numbered.
Special edition: 60 Signed and numbered with a color laser-print image of the guaiacol crystal containing the historic beechnut.
- 103⁄8 x 9 in.; 26.5 x 23 cm.
- 42pp.
- 56 b/w images, 2 line drawings.
- Casebound in dark blue cloth with embossed cover and spine, printed end papers.
The Metropolis of Metaphorical Intimations
Catalogue for an exhibition of the same title at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Texts in English and German by Eugen Blume, Claudia Banz, and Katy Siegel, descriptive texts of two works by the artist.
Edition: 3 Signed and numbered.
Cologne: Walther König, 2003
- 10 x 71⁄2 in.; 25.5 x 19 cm.
- 82 pp.
- 35 color images, 76 b/w images, 26 line drawings.
Special Edition: 1 Containing a recording of Berliner Luft, an original transcription for two accordions in four movements, scored and performed by Walter Kuhr. This music is central to the milking of Die Berliner Zuckerbärin
New York: Paul Etienne Lincoln, 2003.
- 8 x 10 1⁄2 in.; 20 x 26.5 cm.
- 82 pp.
- 35 color images, 76 b/w images, 26 line drawings
- Casebound in dark blue cloth with embossed cover and spine, printed end papers.
Die Berliner Zuckerbärin (Catalogue)
Catalogue for an exhibition at\ Museum Folkwang at RWE Tower, Essen. Texts in English and German by Jan Zilius and Claudia Banz, descriptive text of the work by the artist.
Essen: Folkwang Museum, 2003
- 105⁄8 x 9 in.; 27 x 23 cm.
- 22 pp.
- 24 color images, 16 b/w images, 5 line drawings
- 2 color foldouts
Equestrian Opulators at the House of Approximate Odds
Publication on the Equestrian Opulator exhibition at Catterick
Racecourse and the Equestrian Opulator Fillies’ Handicap Stakes.
Edition: 1000
Special Edition: 10 Housed in a polyethylene slipcase cast from the skin of a Navel orange
Catterick, England: St. Paulinus Projects, 2001
- 71⁄4 x 43⁄4 in.; 18.5 x 12 cm
- 24 pp.
- 28 b/w images, 78 line images
A Violet Somnambulist Spiriting the Fugacious Bloom
A monograph on the installation Ignisfatuus, originally conceived
for the Victorian conservatory in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore. The publication fully describes the history, performance, and technical operation of the work, with a biography of its catalyst, the Baltimorean opera singer, Rosa Ponselle..
Edition: 1000 Numbered
Special Edition: 29 Signed and numbered, clothbound in slipcase with an engraved phonograph needle from the original performance of Ignisfatuus.
New York: Christine Burgin, 2000
- 101⁄4 x 8 in.; 26 x 20 cm.
- 64 pp.
- 54 b/w images, 3 duotone, 18 line images
A Transcript to Unrequited Euphoria
Exhibition catalogue. This publication addresses three works, The Enigma of Marie Taglioni, 1982, In Tribute to Madame de Pompadour and the Court of Louis XV, 1984, and Raniculus and Remus, 1985, all concerned with memory..
Edition: 333 Numbered. The first 33 copies are casebound in lemon-yellow cloth with an affixed title label in prussian blue, and a chemical formula in the artist’s hand.
Edition: 30 and 3 AP. Signed and numbered.
Vienna: Galerie Hubert Winter, 1992
- 91⁄4 x 6 in.; 23.5 x l5.5 cm.
- 32 pp.
- 15 tipped-in b/w images, 1 foldout
- English text, some German text in translation
Ginsmaid© Manual
A description of the workings and maintenance procedures for operators of the Ginsmaid©
Edition: 30 and 3 AP Signed and numbered, numbers 1–10
reserved for Ginsmaids©.
New York: Great Jones Press, 1990
- 41⁄4 x 11 in.; 11 x 28 cm.
- 12 pp.
- 54 b/w images, 3 duotone, 18 line images
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