ROB PRUITT, Panda Bear, 2010
178 x 153 cm / 60 x 70 inches
beach towel
Art Production Fund: Works On Whatever, New York, USA
out of stock
Jimmy Choo is teaming up with cool American contemporary artist Rob Pruitt for the Cruise 2013 collection. The collection will include shoes, handbags, and small leather goods using Pruitt’s iconic artwork. Pruitt’s work is rooted in pop culture and his art pieces have been exhibited at museums including, MoMA, P.S. 1 and Tate Modern.
History of prices:
Art Production Fund: Works On Whatever, New York: US$ 95.- November 2010
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, Carpe Diem, 2010
25 x 3 x 0.8 cm
sterling silver, steel ball bearings, leather
edition of 40
published by White Cube, London, England
not available
Christian Marclay’s practice is often related to sounds, music and sound carriers. ‘Carpe Diem’ is a watch ticking in time and place, although different from a regular one. A clock face lacks, instead this artwork has a flat silver reflective face, with ball bearings within, creating a jangling and defunct tik-tok sound.
History of prices:
White Cube, London, England GBP 1.150.- January 2013
ISA GENZKEN, Mona Isa, 2010
51,5 x 39,5 cm (print size 42 x 30 cm)
C-print
edition 120 + 20 AP
signed, numbered
published by Texte zur Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Isa Genzken is in her work definitively challenged by the notion of sculpture and its practice. Here Genzken engages herself with the artist’s self-representation in a tension between a found internet image and her identity showing herself horizontally hidden behind the head of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa“. Genzken says about ready mades: ‘I have always said that with any sculpture you have to be able to say, although this is not a ready-made, it could be one. That’s what a sculpture has to look like. It must have a certain relation to reality’.
RAYMOND PETTIBON, Off! – First Four EPs, 2010
18 x 18 x 2 cm
cardboard box, 4 vinyl 7 inch EP’s
mint
€ 220,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
A legendary punk band ‘Black Flag’ was founded by Pettibon’s brother Greg Ginn (Pettibon is a pseudonym) in Hermosa Beach (California) in the late 70s.
The four EPs comprise a total of 16 songs. This first release, succinctly titled 1st EP, is produced in a limited edition 7-inch with exclusive poster courtesy of Raymond Pettibon, the Black Flag’s overall visual aesthetic Punker with a black pen featuring its own Pettibon sleeve art.
GERHARD RICHTER, Sindbad, 2010
32 x 26,4 x 1,8 cm
artist’s book, 116 pp.: silkscreen, lacquered pages, incl. banderole 1,4 kilograms
limited edition 800
published by Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany mint condition, cellophane seal as issued
€ 1.985,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.GR 000-pr
Originally “Sindbad” is the title of a series of 98 pictures, painted on the back of panes of glass in 30 x 24 cm format, from 2008. In their first exhibition, Richter paired them as diptychs, like 49 double pages.
The concept of this book was already clear at the time of their painting. Richter decided to reproduce all of the pictures in original format, cut over three pages, leaving a bar of two centimetres blank at the binding. This gives the book its form. The seven texts about ‘Sinbad the Sailor’, each set in three columns over double pages, give structure to the extensive, “fairytale” series. The banderole around the book contains an introduction to the journey. Every detail – paper, typography, layout and flow of the book – was decided by the artist. “Sinbad” (in German “Sindbad”) is without doubt a further highlight in Gerhard Richter’s series of artist’s books.
Sindbad is the title of a series of 98 lacquer pictures made in 2008, painted on the back of 12 x 10-inch panes of glass. For their first public exhibition, Richter paired them as 49 diptychs, which resembled 49 book-page spreads, pointing towards the possible ideal incarnation of these works as a large-format artist’s book. Using silkscreen printing, this volume reproduces all 98 of the pictures at their original dimensions. Seven texts, on the theme of Sinbad the Sailor (in German only), are interleaved with these magnificent images, and a bellyband around the book offers a concise introduction to the work.
History of prices:
Café Lehmitz, Cologne, Germany € 1.780,- January 2023
Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, Cologne € 1.800,- December 2022
Antiquariat Heinzelmännchen, Stuttgart, Germany US$ 1,512.- December 2022
eBay-ashbinx74, Bruton, UK € 1.695,- July 2021
Catawiki, Assen, Netherlands € 440,- 14 December 2020 (hammer price)
Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, Cologne € 1.800,- March 2020
eBay-ashbinx74, Bruton, UK € 1.588,- July 2020
Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, Cologne € 1.800,- October 2019
Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, Cologne € 680,- March 2017
Antiquariat Heuberger, Cologne € 650,- January 2017
Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, Cologne € 680,- November 2014
RICHARD WRIGHT, Untitled, 2010
35 x 35 cm
screen print, edition 30
published by Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
not available
Richard Wright paints frescoes that transform interior spaces. Using mathematically calculated techniques that go back to Italian Renaissance architects, he maps out abstract patterns that create vertiginous spatial illusions.
The Rijksmuseum has chosen to celebrate its 21st-century renewal by commissioning the artist a permanent work with 47.000 stars.
MARLENE DUMAS, Frau ind Hund, 2010
51 x 72 cm
piezografie
signed, dated, numbered
edition 40 + 10 AP
published by Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
out of stock
Marlene Dumas uses often aqueous techniques with paint on paper to express intangable notions like Love, Birth, Suffering and Death. In ‘Frau und Hund’ the notion loyalty seems to be the main theme, since this reproduced aquarelle in print alludes with a story about Hitler who after his defeat of Stalingrad would have said that only two friends still stayed with him: Eva Braun and his dog Blondi.
History of prices:
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany € 4.000,- September 2013
MAARTEN SLEEUWITS, I asked the Japanese artist Leï Saito what would be the best…, 2010
1,1 x 11,8 x 4,4 cm
handmade flip book, 52 pp.
signed, numbered, dated in print
edition 7
artist’s publication
ALOÍS GODINAT, Bâtonnet, Bâtonnet, 2010
stick 40 x 1,5 x 1,5 cm / shelf 2 x 13,5 x 52 cm
wood, stained, with shelf
signed, numbered on certificate
edition 10
published by Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany € 450,- August 2012
Aloïs Godinat’s artistic practice draws on art historical elements, effecting minimal changes to evoke new meanings and contexts. Godinat is obviously interested in the detail – both in his choice of colours, structures, textures, and in his treatment of the fragment, the image or typography at hand.
