TAKAKO SAITO, Buch der Brust, 1984
14,5 x 3 x 12,5 cm
gouache pen, pencil, crayon drawings, copper and thread hinge, handmade cardboard box, cellophane, 10 pp.
edition 8
published by Noodle Edition, Dusseldorf, Germany
sold
Takako Saito shaked up notions of perception and aesthetic experience. Games of chess, playing cards, making art together, games in general were turned into a non-visual experience and activity, such as making use of smell, tactility, and aurality, with a result of breaking existing rules. She has made various kinds of books including Rhine water, sound of thrown paper cubes, and the like. In ‘Buch der Brust’ the artist challenged the traditional notion of a book by turning the pages into the shape of a women’s breast.
DAAN VAN GOLDEN, Apperception, 2012
29,5 x 23,5 cm
catalogue, SC, 224 pp.
+ inserted very thin wrapping paper (20 x 20 cm)
edition 2000 of which 100 catalogues are signed, numbered
mint condition rare
€ 580,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
The insert in this catalogue is a piece of original wrapping paper which the artist produced in 2000 for flower shop / exhibition space Brutto Gusto in Berlin, Germany
GILBERT & GEORGE, Side by Side, 2012
20 x 13 cm
linen bound book, HC, 170 pp.
signed, hand numbered
edition 2000
co-published by Walther König Buchhandlung, Cologne / Enitharmon Editions, London, England
mint
inv.G&G 000-pr
The artist’s book “Side by Side” was first published in 1971 by Koenig Brothers in an edition of 600. This second and larger edition is a reprint. Note on the inside cover at the back of the book: ‘The linens used to bind “Side by Side” were individually hand-marbled by Gilbert & George’. Hence each linen bound cover is unique.
JONATHAN MONK, Bin ich immer noch lustig?, 2012
21 x 14,6 cm
colour stencil print, metal archive staples
36 pages, hand numbered
edition 250
published by Quick Magazine, Berlin, Germany
Jonathan Monk is known for appropriating artworks of others. Here on 36 pages he has translated several Joke Paintings of Richard Prince in an apparently linguistically twisted German translation. The first joke ‘I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name’ on page one of this publication is translated by Monk into: ‘Ich hatte nie einen Pfennig, so dass ich meinen Namen geändert.’
History of prices:
The Land of Nod, Ostend, Belgium July 2023 € 35,-
Motto, Berlin, Germany, July 2018 € 15,-
Quick Magazine, Berlin, Germany, November 2012 € 7,- (year of issue)
PHILIPPE DECRAUZAT, Trois films photographiés – A Change of Speed, a Change of Style, a Change of Scene – After Birds – Screen O Scope, 2011
18 x 25 cm, offset
288 pages, 143 b/w images, 1 colour image
numbered, edition 400
published by CEC / Centre dʼÉdition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
not available
Each copy is stamp numbered and composed of 18 quires, bound together following a random repartition order. Therefore each book is unique.
History of prices:
CEC / Centre dʼÉdition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland € 58 / CHF 70.- December 2012
HENK PEETERS, Echt = Henk Peeters, 2011
23 x 18 cm
hand written text on sewn facsimile catalogue “Henk Peeters”
signed, dated
edition 25
€ 950,- plus registered mail
Henk Peeters added the text ‘ECHT =” on 25 catalogues printed in facsimile and signed them. It is a ZERO / Nul catalogus from 1964 of which the pages have been sewn together on a sewing machine. It has a shape of a half circle following the outline of the depicted zero on the cover. Together with the other half on the back of the booklet showing the same outline te action forms a whole zero.
inv.HP 346
Ref. press release GEM, The Hague, Netherlands
History of prices:
FTN Books Antiquariat, Oegstgeest € 1.350,- maart 2026
FTN Books Antiquariat, Leidschendam € 220,- oktober 2015
JOHN BOCK, Lütte mit Rucola, 2011
32,7 x 26,5 x 5 cm
book, HC, unpaginated, cardboard pages, 66 pp.
with loose hand made knitted object
here with original ink drawing, signed, dated
mint
published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany
€ 560,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
When opening this book a knitted hand made malleable object lies hidden inside the pages. In 2011 the introduction of this object book on the website of Buchhandlung Walther König was accompanied with the above beating heart. Very soon the animation was removed from the site.
The book is based on a film by John Bock. It is the story about an insane man who tries to find existential guidance through the humilation of another man – obviously having a financial debt – by pulling a tooth. By means of crazy diagrams attached to the human body and using the little girl Lütte as medium he believes to be able to find the right corrections and justifications. Drawing by artist on inner part of cover.
30 x 40 cm
HC, 16 pages printed with a die-cut model on each page, numbered, signed
edition 125 + 30 A.P.
published by Three Star Book, Paris, France € 240,- December 2010
In this book, the spectator can complete the work, or not. While the «Toblerone» sculptures are references to the Swiss national repast, and to the military bunkers that dot the Swiss landscape, their very repetion reveals their most interesting facet: context and origine. In a smooth act of near industrializing a sculptural process, Mosset has placed Toblerones in a long line of austere and culturally important places, as well as executing them in various media, from ice to steel. The book version is executed in one grey color picked by Mosset, and constitutes a form no less significant in the artist’s repertoire.
TAUBA AUERBACH, [2,3], 2010
50,8 x 40,6 x 15,2 cm / 20 x 16 x 6 inches
6 pop-up volumes, cloth slipcase, edition 1000 + 100 AP
published by Tauba Auerbach / Printed Matter, New York, USA
not available
FIONA BANNER, ISBN 978-1-907118-99-9, 2010
offset, HC
issued in both silver and white cover
series of 65 unique copies (originally 20 with ISBN number -99-9)
stamped, signed
published by Vanity Press, London, England
Ref. http://www.fionabanner.com/vanitypress/book11/index.htm
Fiona Banner’s practice centres on possibilities of language. From her ‘wordscapes’ to her use of a found and transformed military aircraft, Banner juxtaposes aggressiveness and the sensual, performing elements of intimacy, attraction and alienation. The artist alternates between the pathos of battle in her monumental sculptures, and a sense of humor in her works on paper in relation to how we mythologize our history, based on our willingness to be seduced by myths.
Each book has its own title, i.e. each print in this edition is the same and yet each is unique. Each one has its own ISBN number and is registered under its own individual title. Each one of the edition is therefore an official publication and each is an edition in, and only of, itself. An edition of one… a book reduced to a reference, purely an imagined space.
Originally the edition of this series was 20. At a later stage the edition was extended to 65.
“A vanity press or vanity publisher is a term describing a publishing house in which authors pay to have their books published. In contrast, mainstream publishers, whether major companies or small presses, derive their profit from sales of the book to persons other than the author. Publishers must therefore be cautious and deliberate in choosing to publish works that will sell, particularly as they must recoup their investment in the book (such as an advance payment and royalties to the author, editorial guidance, promotion, marketing or advertising). In order to sell books, commercial publishers may also be selective in order to cultivate a reputation for high-quality work, or to specialize in a particular genre.” Wikipedia 2012
History of prices:
Vanity Press, London GBP 528.75 May 2021
Vanity Press, London € 116,- / US$ 150.- September 2012
