YANN SÉRANDOUR, Cahier Clairefontaine, 2006
22 x 17 cm
stapled, 32 pp.
signed, numbered, here nr 9/32 insert of original ink drawing on firm tracing paper
edition 32
mint
published by Édition Cneai, Chatou, France
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The couver of this edition was published in six colours: red, orange, yellow, blue, light blue and green.
The printed grids on the notebook pages of ‘Cahier Clairefontaine’ have been originally hand drawn by pupils of the Jules Verne Primary School in Croissy-sur-Seine in France and were reproduced in print. Industrially made notebooks are used for learning to write straight by making use of pre-printed horizontal blue and vertical red lines on each page.
The edition is 1500 of which 32 are numbered and signed.
RICHARD SERRA, Notebooks, Vol. 1-5, 2011
ca 28.5 x 38.5 cm and smaller sizes, 5 parts
edition 1050, here nr 823
signed, numbered
published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany
For purchase see: Notebooks Vol. 1-5, Richard Serra Steidl Verlag
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History of prices:
Gessato Design Store, Yorkville NY, USA July 2024 US$ 749.-
Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany July 2024 € 685,-
gerlach en koop, Een sculptuur van zes meter lang, 2008
21 x 15,1 cm
SC, sewn, 48 pp., insert: colour photograph
text by Hans Theys, English / Dutch
edition 300
self-published through gebr. genk, uitgevers, The Hague, Netherlands
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“A six metre long sculpture” is a hybride artist’s book, due to the addition of an essay by Hans Theys on the last 12 pages. For an artist’s book, that is a considerable part contributed by a third party.
The first part of the booklet starting on the couver depicts empty pages with a continuous red and blue scribbling at the bottom of each page. The total length is six meters, hence the sudden cut-off by means of a vertical line at the back of the booklet.
GERHARD RICHTER, 100 Abstract paintings, 2023
24 x 17 x 2,3 cm
HC, 208 pp., artist’s book
mint
published by David Zwirner Books, New York, USA
US$ 50.- for sale at David Zwirner Gallery Gerhard Richter books
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“The 100 Abstract Pictures shown here originated about five years ago, when I poured enamel paints on a fifty-by-fifty centimeter glass plates. The paints then flowed into one another without completely mixing. Thus they produced countless ephemeral abstract pictures, which I captured in photographs….” Gerhard Richter
The book includes ad randomly chosen letter combinations that were generated at random and put together into a kind of abstract concrete poetry.
History of price:
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA US$ 50.- July 2023 (year of issue)
HANS KOETSIER, Advertisements 1969-1981, 1984
60 x 46,4 x 2,5 cm
HC, offset, 93 plates (186 pp.), linen bound with bolts, ca 11 kgs. signed rare in this condition
published by Staatsuitgeverij, Den Haag, Netherlands added: 16 full page Vrij Nederland newspaper advertisements, vintage extremely rare
€ 1.250,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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Hans Koetsier initially worked in advertising and started painting in 1962. He painted figures and fragments of these and incorporated them into serigraphs. At the end of the sixties, he made his first blobby balloon-like sculptures and gradually the idea became more and more important. He developed into a conceptual artist with always a soft spot for typography and ideas written down as ideas. Director of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Wim Beeren suggested to him to advertise and in 1969 he placed his first series of advertisements with texts in national newspapers Het Parool, NRC Handelsblad, Art Forum (USA), Kunst (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) Studio International (UK) and on the front page of Dutch weekly magazine Vrij Nederland under the title ‘Random Art / Probability Art’.
Hans Koetsier has never shared his ideas within the Fluxus or Provo movement. Yet the fact cannot be denied that he had comparable autonomous thinking and acting. In the Netherlands Koetsier became known for unusual high-profile plans. For example, he once suggested establishing a national holiday, the ‘Day of Inspiration’, starting on Whit Monday 1980. The Dutch Prime Minister Van Agt was against the idea, because it would suggest that in the Netherlands there was a “fairly general lethargy”, which he said was not the case.
In Friesland, which according to Koetsier would be the last oasis left in the middle of industrialization, Koetsier wanted to build a watchtower in a place where the view around would still be intact.
Hans Koetsier became best known for placing advertisements in weekly magazine Vrij Nederland, which, in addition to short-sighted texts, often had an algebraic or enigmatic appearance.
KvG June 2023
OLIVIER MOSSET, Biennale di Venezia, 1990
40 x 30 cm
catalogue Swiss Pavilion, SC, 24 pp., 6 full colour spreads, sewn
text L’ objet qui n’en est pas un by Jean Beaudrillard in French, Italian, German and English
published by Schweizerisches Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern and Verlag Lars Müller, Baden, Switzerland
condition of dust couver: used
€ 110,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered mail
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Olivier Mosset is known for making huge paintings as shown among other venues in Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam and at the Venice Biennale, both in 1990.
page 8 – 9:
page 10 – 11:
page 16 – 17:
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Added information
exhibition view Venice Biennale 1990, source Henry Magazine:
History of price:
Alternate Projects, London, UK August 2023 US$ 330.-
20th Century art Books, Lugano, Switzerland August 2023 € 268,-
JONATHAN MONK, The making of ten posters, 2011
7 x 11,6 cm
SC, artist’s book + polaroid photograph
edition 50 signed, dated, numbered, here nr 16/50
mint
published by Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
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ENDRE TÓT, Very Special Drawings, 1981
15,1 x 10 cm
SC, offset, printed in black and white, 7 pages in red
edition 600
signed
condition excellent
published by Reiner Verlag, Berlin, Germany
€ 165,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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The strikethrough of the artist’s portrait at the beginning of the book is part of the page in print. Although, a special edition of 20 copies was published with a handmade drawing, apart from the regular edition.
THOMAS SCHMIT, Erster Entwurf, 1989
20.5 x 15 cm
SC, 118 pp., artist’s book, offset, German language
edition 1600
here verso: signed in initials with hand written additions and small ink drawing
published by the artist (Selbstverlag)
€ 65,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registred EU mail
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‘Erster Entwurf’ of Thomas Schmit’s is an artist’s book about phenomenology in which perception and physics playfully alternate, here and there in a literal manner. Thoughts and ideas on construction are never far away. The last page of the book reads:
“ich nehme wahr
ich nehme dies wahr
ich nehme wahr dass ich dies wahrnehme
ich nehm wahr dass ich wahrnehme”
(Trans. i perceive
i perceive this
i perceive that I perceive this
i perceive that I perceive)
