SYLVIE FLEURY, no title, 1993 [signed and numbered wrapping paper]

SYLVIE FLEURY
no title, 1993
100,5 x 70,5 cm
edition 200 of which 100 are signed, numbered and dated  
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
mint
€ 300,- plus € 18,- registered mail

Galerie van Gelder Editions invites artists to come up with an idea for wrapping paper to be used in the gallery for wrapping sold art works.

History of prices:
Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden, Ahlden, Germany € 500,- 28 November 2020 (hammer price)
Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands € 95,- / Dfl. 200,-  September 1993 (year of issue)

SYLVIE FLEURY, Slim-Fast / vanille, 1993

SYLVIE FLEURY, Slim-Fast / vanille, 1993
15 x 18 x 10 cm
screen print on wooden block
signed, numbered
edition 250
condition: very good
published by Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
€ 650,- plus € 28,- Track & Trace registered EU mail

A recurrent contamination of the masculine world and the feminine, of fashion and art or advertising is seen in the works of Sylvie Fleury. In the early nineties she showed in her first exhibition with John M Armleder and Olivier Mosset a pile of empty Coco Chanel boxes intuitively collected by her for years, because of its attractiveness as she once said. Her installations with shopping bags triggered people to call her the ‘Bag Lady’ at a certain point. Nowadays her work is described as political, but definitively her oeuvre does not lack a post-conceptual attitude at all. With the multiple ‘Slim-Fast’ she shows that the idea is very close to how the artist originally was attracted by the Coco Chanel mascara and perfume boxes, only now more rationally made with a tongue-in-cheek to Pop-art.

History of prices:
Piasa, Paris, France 27 September 2023 € 350 (hammer price)
Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria 10 October 2022 € 576,-
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland August 1993 SFr 500,-

SYLVIE FLEURY, The Art of Survival, 1993 [artist’s magazine / catalogue]

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SYLVIE FLEURY, The Art of Survival, 1993
27 x 21 cm, 72 pp.
artist’s magazine & catalogue, Lumbeck binding
edition unknown
published by Verlag Walther König, Cologne, Germany / Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
very good condition
extremely rare
€ 420,- plus € 18,- registered mail

This is the first catalogue of Sylvie Fleury designed as if it is a fashion magazine. Due to its Lümbeck binding and aging of the glue almost all copies collapsed into a bunch of loose pages when used. Hence extremely rare.




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History of prices:
Booklooker, € 140,- November 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 688.- October 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 822.- 28 May 2021
Amazon-UK, GBP 590.12 21 April 2020
Amazon-USA, US$ 794.- 19 December 2017

JOHN M ARMLEDER, AP [door sign], 1993-1994

AP, 1993-1994
enamel door sign (name plate)
22,7 x 16,2 cm, edition 6 + 2 AP
signed, numbered, dated
published by GALERIE VAN GELDER EDITIONS, Amsterdam    
€ 3.400,-

* John M Armleder made this logo composed of two letters inside a tumbled zero for AP Magazine published by Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam. Each copy was supposed to have a glued sticker with this logo on the cover. The first and only issue has contributions of John Tremblay, Claude Closky, Sylvie Fleury and Marijke van Warmerdam. A small edition was produced as an enamel door plate. Ever since a proof of this plate is mounted next to the entrance of Galerie van Gelder. For the Basel Art Fair 1992 he initiated a co-operation called ‘AP / Associated Publishers Ecart Editions’ with the following galleries:

Gallery Daniel Newburg, New York

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

Gallery John Gibson, New York

Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam

Ecart, Geneva

 

 

JOHN M ARMLEDER, La Ligne d’ Arrivée, 1993

La Ligne d’Arrivée, 1993
21 x 9,7 cm
‘Plat du Jour’ voucher of 200 FFrs
edition of 100
signed, numbered, dated
rare
€ 185,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace registered EU mail

‘La Ligne d’Arrivée’ was a restaurant opposite Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie in Paris. The voucher – here unused – could be validated by dining at the restaurant. Only ca 30 have been signed by the artist and very few have been issued, because soon the restaurant closed its doors.

History of prices:
€ 125,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam December 2011
€ 150,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam June 2016

SYLVIE FLEURY, Vital Perfection, 1993 [shoe box]

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SYLVIE FLEURY, Vital Perfection, 1993
9,3 x 27,8 x 17 cm
faux fur-lined cardboard shoe box, printed in gold on lid
Dimensions overall: 3 3/4 x 10 15/16 x 6 5/8″ (9.5 x 27.8 x 16.8 cm)
signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Hervé Mikaeloff, Paris, France
pristine condition
extremely rare in this condition, i.e. no discolouring
€ 2.450,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail, Margin Scheme

Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU Sylvie Fleury
Collection MOMA, New York, USA Sylvie Fleury

STEVEN PARRINO, Black Flag, 1993

STEVEN PARRINO, Black Flag, 2003
42 x 30 cm
portfolio of 4 sheets
edition 15
signed, numbered, name stamped
published by Galerie de Multiple, Paris, France
not available

STEVEN PARRINO was among other things known for wiping out texts with his black marker in order to draw attention to the language of the images in photographed printed matter. Here a few pages of a book about the history of the band Black Flag has been reproduced. Less important parts in the text have been eliminated by the artist in order to come to essentials like: “The tortuous music was meant to signify the band member’s intense engagement – most tattooed the Black Flag bars on their bodies – and the frustration of tooling around in the face of poverty and indifference. Black Flag’ work ethic – the constant touring, the fully committed performances, the relentless rehearsals – was a way of working through the pain, drowning it out in wave after wave of noise and adrenaline. As the old joke goes, Black Flag was suffering for their art, and now the audience had to suffer for it, too. Gina even had a name for the approach ‘the blasting concept’, or a sonic assault on the audience. Joe Carducci recalls one show when the band played for over two hours. “By the end,” he says, “people were just straggling away, like from a battlefield.”
The band had become as alienated from its own audience as it was from society in general. “We were trying to play through the audience rather than to the audience.” Stevenson said “We would put our heads down, play as hard as we could, and didn’t acknowledge their existence.”….

 

History of prices:
Galerie de Multiple, Paris, France   € 900,- February 2013

MARTIN KIPPENBERGER, Schlecht belegte Studentenpizza gepollockt, 1993

MARTIN KIPPENBERGER, Schlecht belegte Studentenpizza gepollockt [quarter], 1993
22 x 30 x 2,5 cm
wood, paint
edition 28 + 8 AP
signed, numbered, certificate
published by Printed Matter, New York, USA

not available anymore

MARTIN KIPPENBERGER, Schlecht belegte Studentenpizza gepollockt / Poorly topped student pizza, pollocked, 1993
diameter 45,1 cm / 17 3/4 inches
carved and painted wood, signed, numbered
edition 10 + 5 AP

 

This multiple was issued in 3 variations: full pizza, half and quarter slices. Ref. “Kippenberger: Multiples,” Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2003, 120-121 pp.

 

History of prices:
The Archive is Limited € 1.500,- December 2012