GERT VERHOEVEN, ‘OVAL OFFICE, Ouah-Ouah-Cik-Cik-Mja-Mja / A slice of panoramic wallpaper’, n.d. [2014]
– insert in De Witte Raaf
ca 41 x 57 cm
screen print on spread of offset newspaper
signed, numbered
edition 68
– cover of De Witte Raaf
ca 20,5 x 28,5 cm
screen print on newspaper, ink stamps, blind stamp, resealable celluloid foil envelope
signed, numbered
edition 68
Published by Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.
For the 169 issue of De Witte Raaf about Flemish nationalism and culture/the arts (in collaboration with Koen Brams), artist Gert Verhoeven made an artist’s contribution about the recent history and future of Belgium. During his residency at Frans Masereel Centrum he used copies of De Witte Raaf to turn his proof of ‘contemporary history art’ into an edition.
The returns of this multiple, produced at and with the support of Frans Masereel Centrum, will go to De Witte Raaf.
Price 68 Euro.
CUT magazine about art, issue #14, 2014
29,7 x 21 cm, 12 pp.
digital printed magazine
edition 50
for the first Special Cut Subscribers: multiple by Éric Giraudet de Boudemange
signed, numbered, dated
edition of 15
‘CUT magazine about art appears irregularly however often’ and is published by Galerie van Gelder. This time the magazine is printed in full colour, although leafing through the pages one gets a mainly black and white impression.
Issue #14 opens with an photographic image ‘On the Stairs’ of Steel Stillman followed by pages of short sentences describing one of the many snap shots he made with a Kodak Instamatic camera decades ago. The other half of the magazine shows pages contributed by Éric Giraudet de Boudemange who is interested in ‘ethnographic experiences’ documented by film and combined with paraphrases he staged during the filming of deer hunters in the woods.
JONATHAN MONK, Finger Food, 2014
diameter 11 inches
series of 9 different colours
edition 10 (each colour)
signed, numbered on certificate
published by Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
€ 1.050,- plus € 24,- registered mail
Jonathan Monk says about choices: ‘Once something has been done, it can be done again in a different colour.’ This certainly is again executed in his ‘Finger Food’ edition of dinner plates. A series of off-white ceramic dinner plates, each with two glazed thumb prints on the top and the remaining eight finger prints on the bottom side is produced in nine colours and are sold individually in red, rose, pink, black, grey, blue, dark blue, violet and light green.
DAVID SHRIGLEY, Anti-Psychotic Blend, 2014
height 11,3 cm, diameter 9 cm
hand numbered
edition 480
published by Art Sampler Tea Editions, Manchester, England
mint condition
€ 170,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
YANN SÉRANDOUR, One Week, 2014
21, 6 x 17,7 cm / 22 x 18,5 x 0,5 cm
text on A4, folio folded out 37,2 x 44,7 cm
edition 50
published by Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
In 1969, Seth Siegelaub organized a group show “One Month” and selected 31 artists he invited to produce a work on their assigned day in March of that same year. As a kind of exhibition catalogue he produced a calendar of 31 pages entitled “March on 1969”, which included six blank pages corresponding to seven artists who turned down Siegelaub’s invitation (Carl Andre, Michael Asher, Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt, Bruce Nauman and Ed Rusha and xxxx).
RAYMOND PETTIBON, They hung there, possible answers to any question that came up, 2014
127 x 127 cm
seafoam scarf of 10% cashmere, 90% modal
edition 200
JEFF KOONS, Balloon Dog, 2014
18 x 25,5 x 7,5 cm/ 7 x 10 x 3 inches
transfer print on leather handbag, limited edition protection pocket, original tags
signed, dated
published by H&M, New York/Los Angeles/Chicago and Dallas, USA
condition: gold felt pen ink has discoloured on all leather bags due to oxidation; nevertheless the dark signature is easy to detect.
€ 320,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registred mail
This limited edition Balloon-Dog-on-leather-bag was only carried in select stores across the United States and not in Europe or Asia, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas. The 15th of July 2014 was the opening day of H&M’s newest Fifth Avenue flagship store in Manhattan, New York. The regular edition was put online at the company’s site hm.com two days later on July 17th, 2014 and was sold out in minutes.
At the opening most probably a few hundred handbags have been signed and dated by Koons. Nikki Lohr, reporter of The Observer/Gallerist wrote on her blog: “Mr. Biesenbach was also on board: “I love Jeff Koons working with Lady Gaga and working with H&M,” said Mr. Biesenbach. “In a certain way, it is what his work deals with naturally. It makes complete sense.” Always a man of the people, Mr. Koons signed almost every purse and scrap of paper pushed at him throughout the night. A woman in a black silky baseball cap and short black pigtails held out a Sharpie and her white iPhone to Mr. Koons. “Will you sign it?” she squealed. He traced a ‘J’ before he looked up at the woman and said apologetically, “I’m sorry, it’s just not working.”
Original status in 2014 when the handbag was provided with a signature:
JEFF KOONS, Balloon Dog, 2014
18 x 25,5 x 7,5 cm/ 7 x 10 x 3 inches
transfer print on leather bag
limited edition
published by H&M, New York/Los Angeles/Chicago and Dallas, USA
€ 200,- plus € 32,- track & Trace registered mail
Jeff Koons is a Neo-Pop artist who turns ‘the child in us’ (reminiscent of ideas in the Cobra movement) into art and art business, willingly absorbed by the art world. And beyond…
The limited edition Balloon-Dog-on-leather-bag was carried in select stores across the United States, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas. The 15th of July 2014 was the opening day of H&M’s newest Fifth Avenue flagship store in Manhattan, New York. This edition was put online at the company’s site hm.com two days later on July 17th, 2014. The Jeff Koons item was sold out in minutes.
At the opening several bags have been signed and dated by Koons.
RUCHAMA NOORDA, Gaper – magnet, 2014
20,2 x 15,1 x 0,2 cm
photo on magnet base
edition 5 + 1 AP
signed, numbered, dated
handmade by the artist and published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam in 2014
€ 250,-
introduction price until 1st of October 2014
The word “Gaper” means literally “Yawner”. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaper.
AI WEIWEI, Namelist 2008-2011, 2014
size print 78,5 x 28 cm
offset on paper, here unframed
edition 100
numbered, hand signed by the artist
published by Art Edition, Cologne, Germany
mint rare
inv.AWei 000-pr
Verso the print reads: ‘Names of the 2008 student-earthquake-victims researched by Ai Weiwei Studio, Courtesy of the artist’. At the lower part of the print a sequence of numbers is printed.
Ai Weiwei is well known for criticizing governmental behaviour of the People’s Republic of China, although he has no problems with giving the White House the finger. Having spent his younger years in New York in the 1980s, when conceptual and performance art were dominant and while Warhol was active, he has learnt how to combine his own life and art into a daring and often politically charged performance that helps to define how we should see China of today. Ai Weiwei has been harassed and jailed for his continually calls to account of the Chinese governmental attitude.
The print ‘Namelist’ (2008-2011) includes names of the more than 5,000 schoolchildren who died during the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 due to a disproportionate number of collapses of shoddy schoolhouse constructions. Chinese authorities systematically neglected the deaths and its causes. The disaster was twisted. Therefore Ai Weiwei began to straighten out the record. Bad construction had contributed to the disaster and officials were very keen to suppress evidence of corruption. The factual number of victims was difficult to find out, until Weiwei and his helpers made the count, name by name. The students are memorialized at various exhibition venues and moments like here in the edition “Namelist”.
During the time Ai Weiwei was being withheld by the Chinese government, a period in which he was unable to travel and his passport having been taken in, he placed a fresh bouquet in the basket of a bicycle outside his studio each morning. His #aiflowers Instagram up loads invited people everywhere to make flowers to remember the very young students lost in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Ai Weiwei: “Once we find the names and numbers, I think a scientific study should be done to study how the schools collapsed and how the students died,” says Ai. “If anybody tries to hide it, it is a crime to the people and the nation. This time I don’t think anybody can let it go.”
History of prices:
Karl & Faber, Munich, Germany 6 June 2019 € 4.625,- (incl. premium)
eBay 8 June 2014 € 1.577,- (hammer price)
