FRED TOMASELLI, Guilty, 2005
13 x 13 inches
inkjet print, perforated archival paper
edition 100, signed, numbered
published by James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA December 2012
For his works on paper Fred Tomaselli saves New York Times articles and defaces them with paint because some articles have made him angry. Other works on paper utilize the grid form with brightly painted sections and were taken from LSD tabs which usually come in quarter inch perforated squares.
Fred Tomaselli: “In my collages, I use all these images that are made by others. They come through my hands and they end up being something else. You could call me the conductor of these images. There’s something similar about how newspapers operate, with their editors, fact-checkers, photographers, and writers all coming together to spotlight certain things and omit others. They try to present themselves as objective entities, but they are anything but that. I love the idea that in my work I’m just another subjective voice in this subjective world of the news. I become another editor, imposing my editorial acumen.”
Photo: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
MARLENE DUMAS
Lucy, 2005
lithograph,
edition 25
signed, dated + catalogue signed by both artists
+
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM
Luciaaaa!, 2005
lithograph, gold leaf
edition 25
signed, dated + catalogue signed by both artists
published by Walther Koenig Buchhandlung, Cologne, Germany
rare, pristine
sold
Photo: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
linen covered cardboard triptych box
edition number 1/25
Caravaggio’s painting Sepulture of Santa Lucia, which hangs in the Regional Museum of Palazzo Bellomo in Syracuse, prompted Marlene Dumas and Marijke van Warmerdam to make works on the legend of martyr Santa Lucia. Both ‘Lucia’ of Dumas and ‘Luciaaaa!’ of Van Warmerdam is a reproduction in high quality print of one of the works they made for their duo exhibition ‘Con vista al celestiale’ in Syracuse.
Marijke van Warmerdam thought that Lucia’s calling to God and God’s calling to Lucia could best be expressed with the aid of a Jacob’s ladder. She says: ‘A Jacob’s ladder descends from heaven and God calls: “Luciaaaa!” I placed her name in gold letters upside-down on the print, actually as seen through the eyes of God.’
Photo: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
History of prices:
Sotheby’s, Amsterdam € 5.040,- / $ 6,795.- (incl. premium) 23 May 2007
Phillips, New York $ 3,750.- 1 December 2007
inv.TKJ-Margin
CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI, Überhappy, 2005
DVD, 2’28” min.
composition “Überhappy (1)” by Chiel Meijering
2nd film by counterpart advertising company DDB, Berlin and Chief Creative Officer Amir Kassaei
booklet, 12 pp., English text by Paul Groot
one time limited edition 800
published by the Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam
menu for both loop and single play
€ 180,-
Basically Christian Jankowski is collaborative in nature and his works are based on interactions with non-artworld counterparts, including bankers, weight-lifting champions, cleaning companies, porn studios, horror film producers and in this case director/founder Thora Johansen of the Bifrons Foundation in Amsterdam. Often incorporating chance, accident, and spur of the moment decisions lead to the finished artwork, Jankowski never fulfils a brief as expected, identifying contemporary phenomena that interest him and inverting their meaning.
In the case of Überhappy Christian Jankowski asked both director and harpsichordist Thora Johansen to let herself musically involved and to dance in her studio which she co-operatively did. Question is whether this is painful for her or the artist. Or both…..
FRANZ WEST, Gesammelte Gespräche und Interviews, 2005
4to., 180 pp.
book, transparent envelope with 240 images of portraits
signed, numbered
special edition 50 + 5 AP
published by Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany
not available anymore
All persons mentioned in this artist’s book are represented with their portraits taken from internet. Empty pages give the owner the possibility to glue the portraits within given frames inside the book without asking the persons involved for permission to be “published” in the book.
“Dieses Buch hat auch die Note des Interaktiven, das bei mir ja das tragende Element war. Der Inhaber kann die markierten Stellen mit den entsprechenden Photos – diese können zum Beispiel aus dem Internet oder aus Zeitungen sein – vervollständigen.” Franz West
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Passing, 2005
100 x 74 cm
screen print on plastic mirror, di-bond
edition 5
Private collection, Amsterdam
