There she was, probably no more than a couple of inches tall, posturing towards the back of a pocket size magazine printed solely in black and white.
In 1960, when one is a growing, hormonal, thirteen year old boy, images like this could have quite an effect.
This screenprint is based around a black and white photograph taken in 1959 that was keep in AMA’s father’s wallet before buying a first floor appartment in the building whose address was 63 Quai Laurenti, Menton.
In the Autumn of 1972, Frank Zappa and the ‘Hot Rats’ orchestra gigged in Europe.
AMA developed this screenprint from a photograph of a collage of deteriorating publicity posters, he took a little later in Amsterdam.
This is a straightforward image based on a photograph of the wooden relief Number 5 forming the central character in AMA’s reintroductory work entitled, ‘Number 5 Surrounded by his Associates’.
The screenprinted image is taken from a postcard found in Menton, south of France.
Its charm, even then, was the dated nature of the picture. This is the first time when AMA worked with repeating or very similar images.
A series of 10 x Nine screen prints expressing relationships between individual and group identities. The original set of nine 3D numerals have been transposed onto and into sheets of handmade paper.
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