GLENN LIGON and others, part of Circle Jerk, Toronto, 2009
each 33 x 48 cm / 48 x 33 cm
16 posters, full colour offset, in cardboard folder
signed & numbered
edition of 50
€ 4.800,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered mail
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. Originally, the posters were clandestinely distributed on the streets. The posters found audiences by chance, provoking questions or reactions, with no didactic component to the street campaign.
LIMITED EDITION
CIRCLE JERK: 16 artists, 16 posters
As the name implies Circle Jerk is an ad hoc group of queer artists lending each other a hand. What began in 2007 with an original group of 13 artists has grown to 16 participants. Each artist has contributed a work from their current production. There is no specific curatorial premise; nonetheless the works connect with a shared attitude.Participating artists include Andy Fabo, Brendan Fernandes, Bruce LaBruce,
John Greyson, Daryl Vocat, Glenn Ligon, Stephen Andrews, Luis Jacob,
David Altmejd, Chris Curreri, John McLachlin, Micah Lexier, Peter Kingstone,
Will Munro, Ed Pien, and David Grenier.The posters were clandestinely distributed on the streets to coincide with
Art Toronto 2009 in late October. There is no didactic component to the street campaign. The posters found an audience by chance, provoking questions or reactions. A signed, limited edition was a fundraiser for Art Metropole. The set is packaged in a custom-made portfolio carrying case printed with artists’ names and the title “Circle Jerk 2009” displayed in pink text. The edition has been produced in a very limited quantity of 50 sets of all 16 posters, full colour offset printed, signed and numbered.
SONG DONG, Waste Not, 2012
height: ca 5 cm
metal, 2 parts, edition 100
Barbican Gallery, London € 120,- / GBP 95.- August 2012
For his first solo exhibition in UK at Barbican Gallery, Song Dong a monumental work, Waste Not, was shown in The Curve. Comprising over 10,000 items collected by Song Dong’s mother over five decades, ranging from a section of the house to metal pots and plastic bowls to blankets, bottle caps, toothpaste tubes and toys. The installation is a tribute to his mother, as well as a meditation on family life during the Cultural Revolution.
MATIAS FALDBAKKEN, Untitled (Plastic Bag / B.F.) 1-5
60 x 55 cm
Marker pen on printed plastic bag, series of 5 unique works, framed
publishers by ICA, London, UK
“Untitled (Plastic Bag / B.F.)1-5 are a continuation of the artists’ ‘container’ works previously involving wardrobe lockers, VHS cassettes, liquor bottles, newspaper vending machines and empty Marshall cabinets. With these works Faldbakken tries, in various ways, to collapse the difference between sculpture and mould, container and content. These ‘plastic bag drawings’ are an ongoing series which the artist has presented in various forms and configurations, sometimes framed uniformly and precisely, often simply taped to the wall with packing tape. The bags are printed with cropped newspaper images which the artist then further works on with an abbreviated text drawn sketchily with marker pen. In this case the ‘writing’ says B.F.”
History of price:
ICA, London, UK € 2.000,- July 2012 (year of launch)
42,4 x 29 cm / 16.72″ x 11.44″
colour print
edition 20
numbered
certificate of authenticity
not available
Breuning possesses a vivid imagination with little, if any, reserve. Breuning takes us considerably further into the contradictions of his own position within the Western contemporary art world: problems of human existence are seemingly addressed, but, one often wonders, on the basis of what lived experience? With an undeniably self-ironic undertone Breuning confronts us with the consequences of a media-modelled, Pop-culture society. For this work, Olaf Breuning employs his signature technique of juxtaposing photographic imagery to create a fantastical composition of human and animal hybrids arranged around the planet Earth.
History of prices
Benefit Edition, Los Angeles, USA $350.- August 2012
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam € 580,- January 2019
MATIAS FALDBAKKEN, Untitled (Plastic Bag), 2010
42,4 x 29 cm / 16.7″ x 11.44″
archival ink-jet print, numbered, certificate of authenticity
edition 20
Benefit Edition, Los Angeles, USA € 280,- / $ 350.- July 2012
Intervention #21 – Matias Faldbakken
September 1 2012 – January 27 2013
“A small selection of the work of Matias Faldbakken (Denmark, 1973) will be showing in the museum’s Klaverblad spaces. Faldbakken is known for his radical, provocative attacks on existing traditional structures and value systems. You could call him a conceptual saboteur, who expresses his ideas through literature and visual art forms, such as sculpture, installations, photography and film. With works like Untitled (Locker Sculpture #2) and Untitled (Garbage Bag #21) his presentation combines a convincing aesthetic with provocation and vandalism.” Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
JOSEPH BEUYS, Kunst=Kapital, 1980
screen print on slate, framed 32 x 44 x 0,9 cm
signed, numbered, her nr. 12/50
Edizioni Factotum-Art, Verona, Italy
Ref. Schellmann 367
not available
JOSEPH BEUYS, Kunst = Kapital 1980
screenprint (Art = Capital) on blackboard, wood. Courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
signed in pencil on wooden frame
not available
History of prices:
Estimate by Auction House Lempertz, Cologne, € 20.000,- 5 December 2009 hammer price
Estimate by Lempertz, Cologne € 8000 – 10000,- 12 March 2012
MARTIN CREED, Work No. 117
audio cassette, offset, cassette
edition of 500
not available
All the sounds on a drum machine, recorded on a cassette tape. Martin Creed’s Work no. 117 and Two Minute Rest (1995) is a sound piece that rattles through every percussion sound on Creed’s synthesizer.
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland February 2012 € 82,-
