FRANZ WEST, Gesammelte Gespräche und Interviews, 2005
4to., 180 pp.
book, transparent envelope with 240 images of portraits
signed, numbered
special edition 50 + 5 AP
published by Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany
not available anymore
All persons mentioned in this artist’s book are represented with their portraits taken from internet. Empty pages give the owner the possibility to glue the portraits within given frames inside the book without asking the persons involved for permission to be “published” in the book.
“Dieses Buch hat auch die Note des Interaktiven, das bei mir ja das tragende Element war. Der Inhaber kann die markierten Stellen mit den entsprechenden Photos – diese können zum Beispiel aus dem Internet oder aus Zeitungen sein – vervollständigen.” Franz West
YANN SÉRANDOUR, [Supplement] – A Needle In A Haystack, 2004
24 x 17 cm / 23,9 x 16,8 cm
diptych card / printed inlay, offset
edition 50, neither numbered, nor signed as issued
This work comes with a catalogue raisonné “Specific & General Works” (1993) of Lawrence Weiner, of which Sérandour’s supplement is a derived version.
The price shown on the back of the book of Lawrence Weiner was 369 French francs, equal to 54,88 euros. Yann Sérandour seems to have said about the selling price of his supplement: ‘Les comptes ronds faisant les bons amis’ (i.e. “Precision in money affairs keeps friendship’), explaining the very precise price of 45,12 euros printed on the back of the diptych.
JOHN BOCK, Meech elasticity, 2004
21 x 15 cm
artist’s book with pop up in center, 92 pp.
edition unknown, 30 copies signed, numbered
published by CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan
Collection Kees van Gelder, Amsterdam
History of prices, and offered by:
Buchhandlung Wien/Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany € 75,-
A collage of a pictorial diary with reproduced handwritten statements in Germanish English with collages of personal as well as found photos and printed matter. The cover “Bänsch – Kauferverhalten – 4. Auflage” is such an example of found printed matter. Colophon in English and Japanese.
KENDELL GEERS, Point Blank, 2004
21 x 15 x 0,8 cm
artist’s book. offset, bullet holes, gun powder sooth; comes in cellophane bag
edition 30 signed, numbered
published by Imschoot, Uitgevers, Ghent, Belgium
€ 1.400,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.KGee 000-pr
Seven bullet holes are randomly shot into the blank pages of this artist book. The cover has residue of gun powder. The publisher suggests that Kendell Geers’ exile from his homeland of South Africa and its violence during Apartheid inspired him to make this multiple with gun shots. The sooth of gunpowder is spread over the front of the cover and the cellophane bag has created several hardly visible hair thin scratches in the layer of sooth.
History of prices:
Saint Martin Bookshop, Brussels, Belgium November 2023 € 500,- unsigned
Saint Martin Bookshop, Brussels, Belgium November 2023 € 350,- unsigned
GERHARD RICHTER, War Cut, 2004
25 x 21 cm
hard cover, 340 pp.
edition 2000; nrs 1-200 signed with felt-tip pen on penultimate page, numbered
2,000 copies, numbered with stamp on the penultimate page, of these a few copies are also signed, dated and marked h.c. in felt-tip pen on the penultimate page,
150 copies, signed, dated and numbered in blue ballpoint on penultimate page
published by Walther Koenig, Cologne, 2004 here unsigned
inv.GR 000-pr
In May 2002, Gerhard Richter photographed 216 details of his “Abstraktes Bild Nr 648-2”, 1987. Working over a period of several weeks, Richter combined these 10 x 15 cm details with 165 texts on the Iraq war, published in the German FAZ newspaper on March 20 and 21. ‘War Cut’ follows an ever denser rhythm in which texts and gaps take up the same amount of space as the pictures, creating a strictly composed work of open and closed layouts and their mirror images. A conceptual artist’s book about the war in Iraq and one may say war in general communicated through newspapers.
Extra information:
In 2012 a second edition in English was published with a different book cover:
History of prices – signed version edition 200
Bengtsson Fine Arts, Landskrona, Sweden $ 2700.- November 2010
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Seamsea, 2003
14,8 x 21,2 x 0,4 cm; 6 parts
stiff 3 hand stitched, cards, letterpress on cardboard cover
hand numbered in pencil
edition 250
published in six languages by Silver Press Reykjavík, Iceland
Kristján Gudmundsson makes conceptual art not only related to ideas on the potentials of materials, lines, space and time, but also quite often related to nature. He makes sculptures of e.g. paper rolls combined with solid graphite and calls these drawings. Among other works he makes books with e.g. pages full of lines until he has catched the distance “Once around the sun”. In “Seamsea” the artist has made drawings of emblematic (Icelandic?) sea waves on thick cardboard pages. It comes in a set of six books with the title in six different languages: English, Icelandic, Dutch, French, Norwegian and Chinese, i.e. Seamsea, Saumasjór, Zoomzee, Mercouture, Sømsjø and [Chinese characters]. Each book contains three drawings that are made of blue yarn; machine sewn on each page. Due to the hard labour to make these hand made books no more than 100 sets have been produced until now. Very good copies.
JILL MAGID, Particular Old Dutch Houses and some other Royal Things, 2003
6,9 x 10,4 cm, full size unfolded: 60,4 x 20,8 cm
publication with tipped in leporello
edition 55
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam
JOHN BOCK, Gribbohm, 2001
30 x 24 x 1,2 cm / 11.8 x 9.6 x 0.5 inches
offset book with two double fold out pages, 116 pp.
German text, with English translation
edition unknown
History of prices, offered by
Barbar Wien/Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany € 80,- January 2013
John Bock’s stage-like walk-in sculptures constructed from fabrics and junk form the backdrop for his lavish semi-theatrical and semi-improvised performances. Referencing everything from rural life to various half-baked philosophies to the Vienna Actionists, a key influence on Bock, Bock’s performances blend topic fragments from the sciences, arts and the everyday into a volatile and enthralling mixture. The focus here is on the complex relationships between art and the social and between the social and the individual. Laid out in striking collage fashion. John Bock as Gribbohm traces 12 of Bock’s “lectures”, as he terms his performances, with copious illustrations and text by this artist who attempts to make sense of this world by creating one of his own devising. Mint condition.
ELIZABETH PEYTON Prince Eagle, 2001
24,8 x 18,7 cm
SC, artist’s book in plastic cover, full page color plates, 144 pages
published by Powerhouse Books, New York, USA
edition of 3000
mint
inv.EPey 000-pr
ELIZABETH PEYTON Tony sleeping, 2000
15,9 x 12,2 cm
SC, small artist’s book with photos and drawings in print on Tony sleeping.
condition: wears on cover
