RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Feuerchen!, 2011
chipboard, paint
various sizes between ca 20 x 29 x 1,8 cm – ca. 35 x 67 x 1,8 cm
series of 30 unique objects
published by Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
sold
Feuerchen! (trans. “Little fire!”) is a sculpture by Ragnar Kjartansson that resembles a prop from a performance. Like much of Kjartansson’s work, this piece blends a cliché image and drama or aesthetics and emblemata. Ragnar Kjartansson’s tragicomic performances take on the boundaries between art and life, fiction and reality. His work is often about the nature of art, addressing our romantic mythology of the artist as mysterious, elevated or bohemian.
History of prices:
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany € 500,- June 2012
Galleri i8, Reykjavík, Iceland US$ 3,500.- Januari 2018
PHILIPPE DECRAUZAT, Trois films photographiés – A Change of Speed, a Change of Style, a Change of Scene – After Birds – Screen O Scope, 2011
18 x 25 cm, offset
288 pages, 143 b/w images, 1 colour image
numbered, edition 400
published by CEC / Centre dʼÉdition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
not available
Each copy is stamp numbered and composed of 18 quires, bound together following a random repartition order. Therefore each book is unique.
History of prices:
CEC / Centre dʼÉdition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland € 58 / CHF 70.- December 2012
SARAH MORRIS, Marcel Gem [Clip], 2011
23.6 x 23.6 inches
screenprint
edition 60
produced by White Cube, London, UK
This print is based on a painting from the artist’s Clips series in which she has used the motifs of standard office stationary, in particular the paper clip, to make abstract and complex images using a bold palette of colours.
History of price:
White Cube, London GBP 1,200.- December 2012
ROMAN OPALKA, 5607249, 2012
Last number Roman Opalka (August 27, 1931 – August 6, 2011) wrote down on his last canvas. Not really a multiple, although an idea about repetition by counting up figures for a whole life time until time ends.
Opałka began painting numbers from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist called a ‘detail’, took up counting where the last left off. Each ‘detail’ is the same size 196 x 135 cm, the dimension of his studio door in Warsaw.
FRED TOMASELLI, Bloom, 2011
35,6 x 30,5 cm / 14 x 12 inches
screen print on archival inkjet print
signed, numbered
edition 200
mint condition
€ 780,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered mail
published by I.C. Editions, New York, USA
Fred Tomaselli makes psychodelic works through decorative bright colours. The negative photographic base on which a colorful pattern is laid creates a radiating oval black and white halo. The result is eye catching and hypnotic.
History of prices:
Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, USA US$ 1,100.- (make offer) August 2021
Vallot Auctioneers, New York, USA US$ 600.- (hammer price) 6 August 2019
I.C. Editions, New York, USA US$ 350.- November 2012
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Gestreken en gevouwen, 2011
59,4 x 84,1 cm; folded to 29,7 x 21 cm
offset print, 120 g/m2
signed and numbered on certificate, edition 100 + 7 A.P.
published by More Publishers, Brussels, Belgium
Repetition is one of the favorite strategies Marijke van Warmerdam applies in her films, photo works and objects. Here a work depicts an ironed and folded handkerchief on poster, which in turn is folded as a poster.
BRIDGET RILEY, Rose, Rose, 2011
76 x 60 cm
12 colour screen print on 300 gsm Somerset White Satin paper
edition of 250
signed, numbered, dated
published by Counter Editions, London, UK
sold out
Bridget Riley is celebrated for her optically vibrant paintings. By manipulating relationships between black and white, colours and shapes, she creates illusions of movement and light. For the Olympic Games 2011 in London she made ‘Rose, Rose’. Riley has arranged colours in horizontal stripes, indicating the direction of athletic tracks or swimming lanes, it is said, but where originates the title of this print?
History of prices:
Counter Editions, London, UK € 3.750,- / GBP 3,000.- October 2012
Counter Editions, London, UK € 4.150,- / GBP 3,700.- September 2016
LOUISE LAWLER, Adjusted to fit, 2011
each 0,9 x 5,6 x 3,6 cm
set of 9 matchboxes
edition unknown
mint
published by Metro Pictures, New York, Sprueth Magers, London and Yvon Lambert, Paris
rare
complete set: € 350,- plus € 16,- Track & Trace registered mail
In Louise Lawler’s photographs the context is her field of interest in which works of art are displayed, viewed, sold, and also stored in museums, private collections and auction houses. She is questioning the art practice in general, but at the same time she knows she is unavoidably part of this when she exhibits herself works of her own art. That demands self-criticism or at least a display consciousness. Most probably this brought her to have her huge photo prints matching exhibition walls, i.e. vinyl murals that are stretched and adjusted to fit the gallery walls. No wonder she called these exhibitions “Adjusted to fit”.
