DAVID ROBILLIARD, Old Flames are Dead Matches, 1987
4 x 5,6 x 0,6 cm
matchbox, matches with coloured heads
signed and dated in print
edition unknown
published by Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
mint condition
rare
each € 195,- plus € 15,- registered mail Trace & Track
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David Robilliard (1952-1988) was a self-taught painter and poet. He shared a studio with Andrew Heard and met Gilbert & George in 1979 who called him their favourite poet. Later on he became one of their models and appeared as the angry young man in the film “The World of Gilbert & George” made in 1981. His poetical one-liners were super fluently present in his paintings and his poetry was performed frequently by the group The Robilliards, Stephen Chamberlain, and Mental Mary who put Robilliard’ s texts into songs.
‘Cercle et Carré’, 1987
196 x 30 x 39 cm lamp, metal grid, (original) wooden base
edition 18
signed, numbered, dated, certificate
published by Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
€ 7.500,-
John M Armleder once said (in the eighties) that the work he makes is similar to making B-movies. Here one could conclude that ‘Circle et Carré’ looks very much like the work of a designer. Indeed the lamp is truely a design, but the image with metal grid on the wall is not and just a remarkable addition of the artist.
Century ’87, 1987 each 16,2 x 82,4 cm
6 streamers, screenprint, limited edition:
‘Daan van Golden in de Hortus’
‘Nam June Paik in het Postkantoor’
‘Scholte en Dokoupil op de Wallen’
‘Pieter Laurens Mol op Solder’
‘Clemente in de Kelder’
‘Titus Nolte in de Oude Manhuispoort’
* In 1987 Sjarel Ex initiated Century ’87 together with Els Hoek and Nicolette Gast on behalf of Amsterdam Cultural Capital. It was an exhibition in the Amsterdam city centre featuring installations from 30 contemporary Dutch and foreign artists including Nam June Paik, Barry Flanagan, James Lee Byars, Boltanski, Sarkis, Daan van Golden, Rene Daniels and Marlene Dumas. The graphic design group Wild Plakken distributed the black and white streamers all over town in order to draw attention to the project. Very fine copies. Rare.
LAWRENCE WEINER, Ab ovo usque ad mala, 1987
diameter dinner plate: 26,5 cm
porcelain dinnerware, 4 parts
hand signed on certificate, numbered and also signature baked in porcelain
edition 250 + 10 AP + 5 HC
pristine
published by Fodor Museum, Amsterdam
€ 680,-plus € 32 Track & Trace registered EU mail
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‘Ab ovo’ (Latin: “from the origin, the egg”) is a reference to one of the twin eggs from which Helen of Troy was born. The eggs were laid by Leda after mating with Zeus disguised as a swan. As a metaphor the words refer to the beginning of something ominous; had Leda not lain the egg, Helen would not have been born, so Paris could not have eloped with her, so there would have been no Trojan War. This expression is distinct from the longer phrase ‘ab ovo usque ad mala’ (Latin: “from the egg to the apples”) which appears in Horace’s Satire 1.3. It refers to the course of a Roman meal, which often began with eggs and ended with fruit. Here obviously Lawrence Weiner understood the Latin phrase as the similar American English phrase ‘from soup to nuts’.
CESARE DA SESTO, Leda and the Swan, ca 1506-1510
In ‘Leda and the Swan’ Helen’s birth is depicted, painted after a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Helen and Clytemnestra are shown emerging from one egg, Castor and Pollux from another.
JAN J. SCHOONHOVEN, Untitled, 1987
50 x 32,5 cm
screen print
signed, dated, numbered
edition 100 + 28 (A-Z)
JAN J. SCHOONHOVEN, Vorm III, 1987
50 x 32 cm
screen print
signed, dated, numbered
edition 50
JAN J. SCHOONHOVEN, Vorm IV, 1987
50 x 32 cm
screen print
signed, dated, numbered
edition 50
