"This is the catalogue for an antifascist art show that never actually happened. In 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, a group of Catalan artists banded together to stage an exhibition in Mexico City to call attention to crimes against the Spanish people by the Nationalist militias. After the catalogue was printed, an advance coalition of painters and poets arrived in Mexico to prepare for the show. A Dutch transport vessel had been enlisted to deliver the artworks shortly thereafter. But at the Straits of Gibraltar, Fascist naval warships overtook the boat. The crew was arrested and its cargo was seized and returned to Spain. When word of these events reached the Catalan artists in Mexico they staged a demonstration, but without the art, there could be no exhibition. All we have left is this printed document, which includes images of paintings, sculptures, and stills from films of the military efforts to repel the Fascists in Madrid.

The Antiquarian rooms on the first floor at the NY Art Book Fair are always lively. Rare books are usually displayed in hushed environments, but at PS1 in late September, we get to show some of our rarest and most unusual materials to thousands of visitors from all over the world."