Dieter Roth - Edition MAT. Multiplication d'Oeuvres d'Art - 1959

16 pages with black cover, stapled on one side; illustrated. Founded in 1959 by the artist Daniel Spoerri, the goal of Editions MAT was to produce original objects in a series as cheaply as possible. All works were proposed in an edition of 100 and all were priced the same at 20,000 French francs (about $400 today). Contributing artists were Yaacov Agam, Pol Bury, Marcel Duchamp, Bruno Munari, Dieter Roth, Jésus Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely, and Victor Vasarely. The idea was not to make reproductions in the usual sense, but to make multiple originals, mainly kinetic objects, often encouraging the viewer’s intervention. This is the catalogue from first exhibition of Edition MAT, which took place November 27–December 19, 1959 at the Galerie Edouard Loeb in the Rue de Rennes in Paris.