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VOEBE DE GRUYTER, Dokalucht, 1996

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VOEBE DE GRUYTER, Dokalucht, 1996
29,7 x 15,2 cm
book with text in Dutch, each with original hand made charcoal drawing, tracing paper dustcover, SC, 24 pp.
edition 120
signed, numbered
published by The Bifrons Publisher / Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 150,-

 

original sketch for the cover of the charcoal drawings of “Dokalucht”:

Dikwijls worden de werken van Voebe de Gruyter begeleid met een tekst. Hier reproduceert zij een dialoog:
“Je moet nog een titel vinden voor het boekje!”
“Ja, maar het moet niet te literair zijn door het bijvoorbeeld naar een van de stukjes te noemen.”
Ik vond het vreselijk moeilijk. Drie dagen later kreeg ik plots een idee. Ik kwam op een vroege avond buiten en rook een sterke, zurige lucht om me heen. Waarschijnlijk een mengsel van uitlaatgassen van auto’s en vrachtwagens en andere stadsapparaten. Vrijwel onmiddellijk wist ik de titel: beelden uit een stad die aan het ontwikkelen zijn, waarvan sommigen al beeld zijn geworden en vorm hebben gekregen in stukjes.

TONY OURSLER, Untitled (Talking Photograph), 1996

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TONY OURSLER, Untitled (Talking Photograph), 1996
photo, plastic frame, audio recording
15 cm x 18 cm x 1,3 cm / 6 x 7 x 0.5 inches (size photo)
signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Artists Space, New York, USA
out of stock

History of prices
Artists Space, New York, USA June 2013 € 750,- / US$ 1,000.-  

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, ’92-’96, 1996

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MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, ’92-’96, 1996
110 x 80 cm
offset on paper, aluminum
signed, dated
edition 50
published by Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria / Marijke van Warmerdam
p.o.r.

 

“After the artist had made the final selection of works for her exhibition in the Wiener Secession, she noticed that her choice contained a work from every year between 1992 and 1995. Based on this fact she made a poster, but because the poster itself was also a work, the year 1996 was added as a new fact. The image of white dates on a black background created the suggestion of five consecutive frames of a film.” From text by Kees van Gelder in catalogue ‘Close by in the distance’ (2011), p. 74.

GERHARD RICHTER, Hood, 1996

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GERHARD RICHTER, Hood, 1996
44 x 43,7 cm / 17.3 х 17.2 inches
offset, cardboard
edition 110 + 20 AP, i.e. 50 numbered, signed and dated and 60 numbered, signed and marked exclusively for Dokumenta X in 1997
signed, numbered, dated

not available

 

This print is based on a photograph taken from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The newspaper image was painted over, photographed and then printed in offset.

History of prices:
Christie’s, New York, US$ 2,125.- 7-8 February 2008
Christie’s, London, US$ 2,983.- 18 September 2013

MARTIN CREED, Work 88, 1995 [crumpling]

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MARTIN CREED, Work No. 88, 1995
diameter ca 5 cm crumpled sheet of A4 paper, paper shavings, cardboard box
numbered, signed on certificate
unlimited edition
published by Hauser & Wirth Edition, Zurich, Switzerland
not available

This work is made out of a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball. It is an unlimited edition, but this doesn’t mean that such a work is available for ever: www.hauserwirth.com/editions/30/work-no-88-br-a-sheet-of-a4-paper-crumpled-into-a-ball/view/ 

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Klok, 1995 [electric doorbell]

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MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Klok, 1995
height ca 40 cm, different heights
bronze, ceiling clamp, electric device
series of 12 unique doorbells, cast in different pitches
Collection Kees van Gelder

 

‘Marijke van Warmerdam could be the very founder of Reaction Art, i.e. context triggers her imagination. The idea of making a school bell in the form of a carillon with two melodies struck Van Warmerdam as a good alternative to the piercing sound of the bell that normally rings out across the schoolyard. She invited composer Jeff Hamburg to make one melody for the start of lessons and another for when school ends. From there in the context of her first commercial gallery show in Amsterdam in 1995 she decided to turn the gallery’s doorbell into a doorbell bell creating a very deep sound in the building when visitors rang it.’ september 2012 KvG

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Vuilnisbak, 1995

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MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, ‘Vuilnisbak’, 1995
65 x Ø 35 cm
zinc dustbin, gold leaf, varnish
signed, dated, numbered
edition 20
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam        

‘We use a dustbin every day and half our lives end up in it.’ Based on this idea, the artist felt it was time to place the dustbins on a pedestal by providing them with a layer of gold leaf.