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OLIVIER MOSSET, Untitled [unique photo prints], 1990

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OLIVIER MOSSET, Untitled [Flux dots], 1990
30 x 30 cm / 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
unique colour photo, framed
series of 30 different prints
numbered, signed, dated
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
p.o.r.

 

In 1990 Olivier Mosset was invited to make a proposal for Galerie van Gelder Editions. For this he made use of a George Maciunas edition from the sixties: Flux Dots by Olivier Mosset Total Art Nice, a little plastic box filled with home discs referring to the circle paintings of Mosset, as Maciunas once explained to Olivier Mosset. Mosset liked the idea of shuffling up the red confetti every time before a colour photo would be taken. Hence a series of unique works was eventually realised based on Maciunas’ box.

Olivier Mosset in discussion with Kees van Gelder about how to produce his photo edition “Untitled 1990”, in Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 1990.

Added information:
On 7th of June in 2023 a particular lot was auctioned at Auction house Metayer Merdoz in Paris. In some way four prints out of this series were put together into a square and offered, apparently as a work in itself.

RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Bookends, 1990

RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Bookends, 1990
17 x 16.5 x 10 cm
formica on wood, metal, 2 parts
edition 50, signed, numbered
published by Brooke Alexander Editions for Printed Matter, Inc., New York, USA
not available

The two bookends may be put on their side as a stack that turns them into a sculpture. Or as Richard Artschwager stated in an interview: “You want sculpture, you got sculpture”.

BARBARA KRUGER, I shop therefore I am, 1990 [paper shopping bag]

BARBARA KRUGER, I shop therefore I am, 1990
43,9 x 27,3 x 10,7 cm / 16 1/2 x 11 inches
edition 9000
offset in black and red, paper shopping bag
published by Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 1990
excellent and close to mint condition
€ 1.450,- plus € 24,- registered mail Track & Trace
inv.BKru 000-pr

 

History of prices:
Artsy-MLTPL, Hamburg, Germany February 2024 € 2.200 (Make an offer)
Leslie Hindman Inc., Chicago, USA 19 July 2021 € 2.103,- (hammer price)
Caviar20, Toronto, Canada 18 April 2021 € 1.794,-
Caviar20, Toronto, Canada 2 July 2020 CAD$ 1,950.- (€ 1.275,-)
Artcurial, Paris 16 May 2018 € 3.250,-
D. & E. Lake Ltd., Toronto, Canada 22 December 2017 US$ 770.-
Galerie & Antiquariat Gerhard Zähringer, Zürich, Switzerland 12 September 2017 US$ 415,-
Artnet.com / Deborah Ripley estimate: 28 August 2012 US$ 700-800.-
Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery 15 October 2011 US$ 500.-

A.R. PENCK, I am ar. penck, 1989 [English version]

A.R. PENCK, I am ar. penck, 1989 – English version
30 cm x 38 cm
leporello, screenprint
size unfolded 30 x 453,5 cm
edition 100 + 20 AP
signed, numbered
published by Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam
condition: mint
€ 1.250,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.APen 157-pr

 

History of prices:
Bromer Booksellers, Boston, USA – (English version) US$ 1,045.- August 2022
René Schmitt Druckgrafik, Berlin, Germany US$ 8,500.- April 2020
Ketterer Rare Books, Hamburg, Germany € 240,- 22 November 2016
Versandantiquariat Elke Rehder, Barsbüttel, Germany – (German version) € 480,-  October 2012
Versandantiquariat Elke Rehder, Barsbüttel, Germany – (English version) € 450,-  October 2012

 

Extra information:
Artist’s book “I am ar. penck” was also issued in a German version.


A.R. PENCK, I am ar. penck, 1989 – German version
30 cm x 38 cm
screenprint
size unfolded 30 x 453,5 cm
edition 100 + 20 AP
signed, numbered
published by Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam

CARSTEN HÖLLER, Zukunft ist wichtiger als Freizeit., 1989


Photo K. van Gelder

CARSTEN HÖLLER, Zukunft ist wichtiger als Freizeit., 1989
5,4 x 4,9 x 0,6 cm
2 match books, vintage colour photo (8,8 x 13,1 cm)
edition 5000
hand out, published by the artist
mint condition
each € 130,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.CHoe 249

Carsten Höller was flabbergasted by Helmut Kohl’s speech at the Deutschen Ingenieurtag on 26th of May 1987 given in Munich, Germany: “…Wer über die Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft mitentscheiden will, tut gut daran, dies nicht nur in der unbeständigen Aufgeregtheit des Zeitgeistes zu tun, sondern mit Nachdenklichkeit und Besonnenheit.”

“…Einer Gesellschaft, in der für viele die Freizeit immer mehr zum wichtigsten Wert wird, ist schwer verständlich zu machen, dass Zukunft wichtiger ist als Freizeit und dass Zukunft ohne Anstrengungen nicht gesichert werden kann.”

The idea that a future with efforts or even hard labour, i.e. ‘Anstrengungen’, is more important than leasure time made the artist decide to appropriate the slogan of German politician Helmut Kohl.