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KAY ROSEN, “O”, (Open, Orb, Orifice, Donut, Globe, Hole, Whole, Halo, Zero), 1999 [multiple, DIY]

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KAY ROSEN, “O”, (Open, Orb, Orifice, Donut, Globe, Hole, Whole, Halo, Zero), 1999
diameter 30,5 cm
vinyl stencil, type face Futura Bold
edition 10 + 2 AP + 2 HC + 2 PP
to be installed with florescent Plaka colour nr. 81 (orange), signed on certificate
inv. KRo 000-pr

Kay Rosen works are text based. She finds words, letters for minimal use. In her paintings, drawings, wall works, collages and editions she has used various visual/typographical strategies revealing the unexpected, partly by challenging the way people see and understand words and letters they read. Here, she proposed herself possible references to notions as Open, Orb, Orifice, Donut, Globe, Hole, Whole, Halo and Zero. The work ‘O’ is applied to chipboard with a white background as base. It was shown in ‘Een goed in de weg staande tafel’ at Galerie van Gelder in 1999, curated by Jack Jaeger.

History of prices:
Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany February 2026 € 1.210,-
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2001 September 2001 Dfl. 1.500,-

JACK JAEGER a.o., 2001 [booklet “A table standing perfectly in the way”]

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JACK JAEGER a.o., 2001
21 x 15,4 cm
SC, stapled, 20 pp.
edition 500
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv. JJa 000

A small part of the edition came with a photo or print insert.

Jack Jaeger was an artist/curator who, very early on, recognized the qualities of artists like Henry Bond, Liam Gillick, Richard Hawkins, Wolfgang Tillmans, and ensured their first exhibitions in the Netherlands at Galerie van Gelder with a group exhibition “Mechanical Reproduction” in AP in 1994. He also curated a group exhibition “A table standing perfectly in the way” at GvG in 2001. Here, work by Phyllis Baldino, Lisa Beck, Ellen Cantor, Tom Friedman, Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Johan Grimonprez, Elke Krystufek, Kay Rosen, Steel Stillman, B. Wurtz, and many others were introduced for the first time in the Netherlands.

HANNES VAN ES, Liberty, Vanes Paint, 1987 [3 paint cans with label]

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HANNES VAN ES, Liberty, Vanes Paint, 1987
00 x 00 x 00 cm
paint, 3 cans, label
limited edition
extremely rare
published by XX, Spain
inv. HvE 000-pr

In the 1980s, Hannes van Es began creating abstract paintings. The paint was applied to the canvas with a smoothing squeegee. This had to be so pasty that the grooves remained in the paint. For this, he had found a manufacturer in Spain who produced a tough paint specifically for him. Van Es designed a wrapper for the paint cans and they were marketed under the name ‘Vanes Paint’.

HANNES VAN ES, “Clear view on several black stains”, 1987
Galerie van Gelder, exhibition view with blobs of “Vanes Paint’ on rolled out paper strips.

YAYOI KUSAMA, Pumpkin, 2019 [bath mat, large]

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YAYOI KUSAMA, Pumpkin, 2019
51,5 x 84 cm
print on bath mat, polyester fabric
mint, here wrapped in cellophane
published by Redbubble, Docklands, Victoria, Australia
€ 395,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv. YKusa 937-pr

In 2019 for a very short period a bath mat (both small and large) with printed pumpkin was offered for sale. The design was striking since only circa 5% of the surface was used for the image. In less than two months it was taken from the website of Redbubble.

Additional information
Redbubble is a global online marketplace for print-on-demand products based on user-submitted artwork. The company was founded in 2006 in Melbourne, Australia, and also maintains offices in San Francisco and Berlin in 2017.

FRANCK BRAGIGAND, Painted Street Collection – cassettes, n.d. [2003]

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FRANCK BRAGIGAND, Painted Street Collection – cassettes, n.d. [2003]
11,8 x 8,5 x 7 cm
5 music cassettes, hand written titles of songs on inner sleeves, lacker paint
out of a series of objects found in the streets of Amsterdam
inv. FB 000-pr

The title of this series “Painted Street Collection” refers to one of Franck Bragigand’s recycling methods. He collects all kinds of objects found in the garbage on the street, which he then cleans, sands and paints. Here he only applied a method of working that he calls ‘Un plan, une couleur’ (trans. “One plane, one colour”), i.e. painting a yellow layer of paint on one side of each cassette.

FRANCK BRAGIGAND, Restauration of Life – Order the next one…, 2003

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FRANCK BRAGIGAND, Restauration of Life – Order the next one…, 2003
various sizes and colours

A gallery sign lying on the seat of a yellow chair explained in short that visitors could go out back into the street searching for a chair left at the street garbage. Once back in the gallery, a buyer could choose a colour that would be painted on by the artist. For each extra colour added to a part of the chair – ‘un plan, une couleur’ – an amount of money was added to the sale price.

On a nearby wall the price setting written by Franck Bragigand was shown: