CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, Klak, Klak, Klak, 2012
37 x 28,1 cm / 14 9/16 x 11 1/16 inches
photogravure
edition 25
published by Graphic Studio, Tampa, USA
temporarely not available
Continuing his exploration of collage and the visualization of sound this print utilize imagery from Manga comics (originally published in Japan and translated for the US market) and onomatopoeic words. Since the late 1990s, Marclay has created “graphic” scores, non-traditional forms of notation, for improvisational interpretation by musicians and vocal performers.
History of prices:
Graphic Studio, Tampa, USA € 2.900,- / $ 4,000.- July 2013
GARY HUME, Misery, 2012
49,8 x 32 cm
silver paper, acrylic paint, collage on hand made paper
series of 25 unique collages
numbered, signed
published by Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Berlin
not available
Gary Hume once said: ‘The surface is all you get of me’, and one can see in this collage what he means given that his applied material is not only smooth and polished, but above all very present. He is known for paintings between figuration and abstraction on aluminum panels, which often feature colour combinations made with industrial paints.
Gary Hume was one of the very first of the Young British Artists to be embraced by the art establishment – the first to win the Jerwood Prize in 1997, the first to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1999, the first to be elected to the Royal Academy in 2001.
History of price:
Monopol/Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Berlin € 3.900,- December 2012
JONATHAN MONK, A controlled chance encounter, 2012
74 x 36 x 2 cm
spray paint, cardboard mailing wrap
signed, numbered
edition 14 + 4 AP
published by Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Berlin, Germany
not available
Jonathan Monk has chosen to use the inner side of a cardboard mailing envelope after he walked in his studio over such a mailing wrap protecting the floor for paint stains. In this envelope a recent Monopol Magazine is send to the addressee. The 14 copies + 4 AP’s of the edition differ slightly from each other. The work is finished when the magazine and envelope is mailed and after receipt is opened, the magazine may be taken out and is either pinned on a wall, framed or merely put on the table. Jonathan Monk comments: ‘Eventuelle Dellen oder Kratzer auf dem Postweg machen das Werk nur schöner!’
History of price:
Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Berlin € 900,- December 2012 (year of issue)
JOHN BALDESSARI, Beach towel, 2012
70 x 60 inches
100% cotton beach towel original wrapping, tag
published by WOW / Works on Whatever, New York, USA
mint
€ 495,- plus € 20,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
John Baldessari is known for integrating photomontage, painting, and text. His visual juxtapositions connect words with images to illuminate, mystify, and contest meaning and expectations. In an interview he once said that he unavoidably will be remembered as the artist with the circles.
History of prices:
eBay-dynas-46, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA US$ 450.- September 2023
Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Van Nuys, CA, USA US$ 754.- 15 December 2022
eBay-thearteryfineart, USA € 430,46 September 2021
Wright Auction, Chicago, USA € 315,- 18 November 2020
Works on Whatever, New York € 72,- / US$ 95.- December 2012 (year of issue)
FRED TOMASELLI, July 5, 2012 (Study), 2012
13 x 17 inches
screenprint on newsprint paper
edition 108, nrs 1 – 20 are part of a complete portfolio
published by Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, USA
not available
This work is part of a Vera List Anniversary Print Portfolio, which includes prints by Dan Graham, Paul RamÃrez Jonas, Sarah Morris, Matt Mullican, Fred Tomaselli, and Fred Wilson.
Fred Tomaselli has often caused controversy with his use of pattern or mosaic like collages of consciousness-altering plants and pills. “I want people to get lost in the work,” says the artist. “In that way the work is pre-Modernist. I throw all of my obsessions and loves into the work, and I try not to be too embarrassed about any of it.”
History of price:
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, December 2012 US$ 750.-
OLAFUR ELIASSON, Little Sun, 2012
ca 8 x 8 x 2 cm
torch with verso 6 x 6 cm mono-crystalline solar module
published by Tate Modern, London, England € 21,- / GBP 17.- December 2012
On 31st of December 2018 more than 838.000 solar torches had been distributed worldwide.
Olafur Eliasson: ‘Light is for everyone – it determines what we do and how we do it. This is why Frederik Ottesen and I have developed the solar-powered lamp Little Sun. Little Sun is a small work of art with a large reach. One part of the artwork is the lamp and the activities it enables. The other is the successful distribution of Little Sun in off-grid communities, its journey from production to usage.’
According to Tate Modern (2012): ‘By purchasing a Little Sun solar-powered lamp here, you help make it available for a lower price to people who do not have consistent access to electricity’.
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, In de verte, 2012
18,7 x 25 cm
colour photo on dibond; recto and verso, wooden ledge
signed, numbered, dated, edition 40
published by Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands € 600,- October 2011
In this double sided film still Marijke van Warmerdam’s hands are shown sliding across the slats of Venetian blinds. At the other side of the photo another moment is depicted taken from her film ‘Light’ from 2010. Here two moments in one are literally put on display, but cannot be seen simultaneously. The latter being both a strategy of fetching reality and a trademark of the artist.
DAN GRAHAM, Fish Pond / Swimming Pool, 2012
22″ x 40″
digital print
signed, numbered, edition 108, of which 30 in portfolio with six prints
part of Vera List Anniversary Print Portfolio
published by Lincoln Center, MIT and Vera List Center
not available
Dan Graham’s Fish Pond/Swimming Pool reveals his fascination with reflection and perception. His plans for a partitioned fish pond-cum-swimming pool illustrate a bi-species participatory art experience, as both fish and humans move within the same environment. Guided by an interest in perspective, Dan Graham creates works that explore the activities of voyeurism and spectatorship through the artistic medium of architecture.
History of price:
Lincoln Center, MIT and Vera List Center US$ 750.- December 2012 (year of issue)
SOPHIE NYS, Catalogue Version VI, 2012
21 x 14,9 cm
offset book, 392 pp.
signed, numbered
edition 20
published by Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
€ 385,- + € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mailregistered mail
inv.SNys 247-pr
Here Sophie Nys is interested in art history, history of philosophy and in figures of historical importance. This eclecticism in a more broad sense is found in her work in the form of thematic declinations and variations. Her approach is based on research and free associations as soon as she bumps up to a subject of her interest. There is no steady theme and in that sense she could be characterised as an artist that, I would say, makes ‘Stumble-over art’, i.e. art based on something that struck the artist’s eye and is elaborated into an artistic form. Most of the time putting the emphasis on the idea, avoiding too much colour or other esthetic seduction. An attitude that is comparable to works of Jonathan Monk, David Horvitz, Yann Sérandour and others. KvG
The volume ‘Catalogue Version VI’ is the complete version of a work in VI parts initiated in August 2001 and depicts hundreds of pages of photographed art works in museums and galleries, together with their name plates and descriptions.
JOHN BOCK, Ohne Titel, 2012
ca 235 × 43 x 65 cm
various bike parts assembled
unique series of 4
signed, numbered
published by NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
History of price:
NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany – December 2012 € 6.200,-
