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MARK WALLINGER, “Study for self reflection”, 2018 [invite]

MARK WALLINGER, “Study for self reflection”, 2018
26 x 20 cm
invitation card, silver foil cardboard
published by Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA

Usually the invitation cards of Hauser & Wirth depict reproductions of art works or reproduced photos of the artists involved in a coming exhibition. Here the printed matter is a piece of silver foil cardboard, apparently to use as a mirroring surface. Therefore first of all this card may be considered as a multiple.

YANN SÉRANDOUR, Folded to Fit, 2018

YANN SÉRANDOUR, Folded to Fit, 2018
84 x 59,4 cm (folded to 54 x 42 cm)
silkscreen print, wooden stick (80 x 1 cm)
signed, numbered
edition 15 + 10 AP
published by More Publishers, Bussels, Belgium

This edition is made after a found herbarium-page, for which a plant was folded to fit the book format. The work consists of an enlarged print of the page, then folded, following the irregular leafs and branches of the plant. The folded print is to be installed over a wooden stick of 80 centimeters long, nailed to the wall.

BEN VAUTIER, Écoutez la mer, 2001 [multiple]

BEN VAUTIER, Écoutez la mer, 2001
10 x 12 x 1,5 cm
metal balls, glue sealed plastic box with printed matter
comes with bulletin Praktikabel-podium per post, Nr 23, original envelope with Ben Vautier sticker
edition 300
signed, numbered
splendid condition, although the bulletin is folded due to being added to the box in a mailed envelope
published by Stichting Keunstwurk, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
inv.BVau 000-pr

 

-put it against your ear
-close your eyes
-listen to the Waddenzee

MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, Le Ultime Parole Famose, 1967

MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, Le Ultime Parole Famose, 1967
7,6 x 12,6 cm
artist’s book, letterpress, stapled
text in Italian and English
edition 60
published by the artist
naturally discoloured due to its wood-containing paper, light bump top right
good, uncommon in this condition
€ 395,- plus € 18,- registered mail
inv.MPis 155

 

This booklet is the first artist’s book by Michelangelo Pistoletto in a limited edition of 60 copies as is stated by him in a publication of Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon in France: “Michelangelo Pistoletto Continenti del Tempo”, 2001.
The text is both in Italian and English, the latter being very uncommon at the time! The first line in the book may be considered as the kernel of the whole manifesto and states what it means to be an artist:

“When a man realizes that he has two lives – an abstract one for his mind and a concrete one which is also for his mind – he ends up either like a mad-man, who, out of fear, hides one of his lives and plays the other as a role, or like the artist, who has no fear and who is willing to risk both of them.”

History of prices:
Bruno Tonini/Tonini Editore, Rome, Italy December 2025 € 350,- (poor condition with rusted staples)
Bruno Tonini/Tonini Editore, Rome, Italy February 2025 € 1.000,- (rusted staples)
Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, UK GBP 650.- April 2023 (discoloured)
eBay-vetiver62, Firenze, Italy US$ 1,800.- April 2023 (poor and discoloured)
Ellis Bierbar, Milano, Italy € 700,- April 2022 (condition unknown)
Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, UK GBP 650.- October 2021 (discoloured)
eBay-vetiver62, Firenze, Italy US$ 1,800.- October 2021 (poor and discoloured)
eBay-many-giochi, Rome US$ 550.- October 2008 (tear and discoloured)
Barneby’s US$ 850.- January 2018 (discoloured)

GLENN LIGON, Untitled (Barber shop), 2009 [illegal street poster, signed]

GLENN LIGON, Untitled (Barber shop), 2009
48 x 33 cm
offset, printed on MC paper
splendid condition
€ 950,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.GLig 97

Originally this poster was clandestinely distributed on the streets in Toronto.

Glenn Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s with conceptually based work that investigates the social, linguistic, and political constructions of race, gender, and sexuality.

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