SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Ofrím, 2014

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SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Ofrím, 2014
15,5 x 12 cm
offset, 20 pp., HC,
edition 150,
signed, numbered
published by Silver Press, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

The first edition of the book ‘Ofrím’ (English translation: ‘Over-rhyme’) was issued with a subtitle ‘ljód eftir Sigurd Gudmundsson’. This was skipped in te second edition. Here the cover is missing.

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SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, ‘Ofrím – ljód eftir Sigurd Gudmundsson’, 1972 
16 x 14,9 cm
offset, book block without cover, 10 pp.
edition 300
numbered (not here)
published by Silver Press, Reykjavik / Amsterdam

BEN VAUTIER, introspection truth art & sex, 2013

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BEN VAUTIER, introspection truth art & sex, 2013
issued in linen bound cardboard box (7,4 x 18,5 x 24,9 cm)
content: 4 parts, screen print on mirror (21,2 x 15,2 cm), two books with embossed texts (0,8 x 21,6 x 15,3 cm / 2,8 x 21,6 x 15,3 cm), larger book hand signed in red felt pen ink with embossed number #20
all items in black linen bound display box
edition 100 + 10 AP, of which 50 numbered 1-50 and 50 HC Roman numbered from I – L
Published by Global Art Affairs Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands

 

 

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TRACY EMIN, My Photo Album, 2013

TRACY EMIN, My Photo Album, 2013
22 x 18 cm
offset, including art paper print (10 x 8 inches)
signed, dated, edition 100
published by Fuel Publishing, London, England
not available

My Photo Album, which is largely about her childhood and teenage years and not so much about being a confrontational artist she is known for today. It is a personal stash of circa 10,000 photos.

not available

 

 

History of prices:
Fuel Publishing, London, England   GBP 150.- May 2013

KATE LEVANT, Untitled, 2013 [artist’s book]


KATE LEVANT, Untitled, 2013
19 x 14 cm
hand made artist’s book (nr 4/15), 16 pp., plasticized cover, hand written texts in pencil
(here including text of Leon Trotsky from 1924 and text of Kate Levant on ‘The malignant narcissist’)
edition 15
published by the artist, Amsterdam

 

 


 

 

KATE LEVANT, Untitled, 2013
19 x 14 cm
hand made artist’s book (nr 5/15), 12 pp. (sic), plasticized cover, hand written texts in pencil
(here including cover image and excluding 4 pages of texts by Leon Trotsky from 1924 and text of Kate Levant on ‘The malignant narcissist’)
edition 15
published by the artist, Amsterdam

SOPHIE NYS, Catalogue Version VI, 2012

SOPHIE NYS, Catalogue Version VI, 2012
21 x 14,9 cm
offset book, 392 pp.
signed, numbered
edition 20
published by Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
€ 385,- + € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mailregistered mail
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Here Sophie Nys is interested in art history, history of philosophy and in figures of historical importance. This eclecticism in a more broad sense is found in her work in the form of thematic declinations and variations. Her approach is based on research and free associations as soon as she bumps up to a subject of her interest. There is no steady theme and in that sense she could be characterised as an artist that, I would say, makes ‘Stumble-over art’, i.e. art based on something that struck the artist’s eye and is elaborated into an artistic form. Most of the time putting the emphasis on the idea, avoiding too much colour or other esthetic seduction. An attitude that is comparable to works of Jonathan Monk, David Horvitz, Yann Sérandour and others. KvG

The volume ‘Catalogue Version VI’ is the complete version of a work in VI parts initiated in August 2001 and depicts hundreds of pages of photographed art works in museums and galleries, together with their name plates and descriptions.

ROBERT BARRY, Art Lovers, 2006

ROBERT BARRY, Art Lovers, 2006                                                                                                                         27,6 cm x 27,6 cm
papers, 72 pages, in laminated box
numbered
edition 270 + 30 AP
published by Michèle Didier, Brussels, Belgium
not available

Art Lovers is an unbound book with plates superimposing two layers: a photographic portrait and a word outline cut into a black surface. Each portrait is covered by this black plane, turning the opening made by the word into letter shaped keyholes. The viewer can barely see the portraits and has to infer their subjects from a few sparse and vague elements. The 31 “Art Lovers” in question were photographed by the artist.