ALOÏS GODINAT, Lacération et Chevauchement, 2012
edition 150
published by Wallpapers by Artists, Lyon, France € 150,- December 2012
Aloïs Godinat’s artistic practice draws on art historical elements, effecting minimal changes to evoke new meanings and contexts. Godinat is obviously interested in the detail – both in his choice of colours, structures, textures, and in his treatment of the fragment, the image or typography at hand. Here a wallpaper edition titled ‘Tear out and overlap’ (trans. ‘Lacération et Chevauchement’) refers to what is factual to be seen and literally to be done when one hangs wallpaper.
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Feuerchen!, 2011
chipboard, paint
various sizes between ca 20 x 29 x 1,8 cm – ca. 35 x 67 x 1,8 cm
series of 30 unique objects
published by Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
sold
Feuerchen! (trans. “Little fire!”) is a sculpture by Ragnar Kjartansson that resembles a prop from a performance. Like much of Kjartansson’s work, this piece blends a cliché image and drama or aesthetics and emblemata. Ragnar Kjartansson’s tragicomic performances take on the boundaries between art and life, fiction and reality. His work is often about the nature of art, addressing our romantic mythology of the artist as mysterious, elevated or bohemian.
History of prices:
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany € 500,- June 2012
Galleri i8, Reykjavík, Iceland US$ 3,500.- Januari 2018
ROMAN OPALKA, 5607249, 2012
Last number Roman Opalka (August 27, 1931 – August 6, 2011) wrote down on his last canvas. Not really a multiple, although an idea about repetition by counting up figures for a whole life time until time ends.
Opałka began painting numbers from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist called a ‘detail’, took up counting where the last left off. Each ‘detail’ is the same size 196 x 135 cm, the dimension of his studio door in Warsaw.
LOUISE LAWLER, Adjusted to fit, 2011
each 0,9 x 5,6 x 3,6 cm
set of 9 matchboxes
edition unknown
mint
published by Metro Pictures, New York, Sprueth Magers, London and Yvon Lambert, Paris
rare
complete set: € 350,- plus € 16,- Track & Trace registered mail
In Louise Lawler’s photographs the context is her field of interest in which works of art are displayed, viewed, sold, and also stored in museums, private collections and auction houses. She is questioning the art practice in general, but at the same time she knows she is unavoidably part of this when she exhibits herself works of her own art. That demands self-criticism or at least a display consciousness. Most probably this brought her to have her huge photo prints matching exhibition walls, i.e. vinyl murals that are stretched and adjusted to fit the gallery walls. No wonder she called these exhibitions “Adjusted to fit”.
HENK PEETERS, Echt = Henk Peeters, 2011
23 x 18 cm
hand written text on sewn facsimile catalogue “Henk Peeters”
signed, dated
edition 25
€ 420,- 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
LAWRENCE WEINER, XX XY blocks, 2011 print on paper, wood, 9 parts, printed cardboard box,
edition 1000
published by Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris / Artware Editions, New York
p.o.r.
A representative of the Conceptual art movement. Lawrence Weiner’s primary medium is language, often in combination with red, yellow, blue or black and white signs. He is a New York and Amsterdam-based sculptor, in an effort to make art that is accessible, open-ended, mutable and transferable. Ref. http://yvon-lambert.com/2012/
LAWRENCE WEINER, Bicycle Edition, 2011
hand engraved signed and numbered, edition of 10 + 3 AP
hand painted designs and custom decals, fabricated by Atomic Signs
published by the New Museum, New York, USA
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Drawing in Round Frame, 2011
plexiglass, solid graphite diameter 20 cm / 7.8 inches
edition 20
In Drawing in Round Frame, Kristján Gudmundsson uses solid graphite framed in an unusual manner. For him another way of making a drawing on a wall and here also in a circular frame. As a minimalist he questions the viewer’s senses, as well as the functions and possibilities of making a fundamental drawing.
Kristján Gudmundsson is a pioneer of Icelandic conceptual art, creating intellectually challenging and sometimes humorous artworks that address issues of science, art, and philosophy. A process artist who drills the mediums of drawing and painting down to their bare essentials.
History of prices:
Galleri i8, Reykjavik, Iceland € 1.200,- / US$ 1.300.- February 2014
Galleri i8, Reykjavik, Iceland € 1.000,- / US$ 1.300.- February 2012
JEFF KOONS, Garage Tattoo, 2011 [Lobster]
15 x 10 cm
offset transfer print
edition unknown
part of a set of 5 transfer tattoos by John Baldessari, Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Raymond Pettibon
published by Garage Magazine, Moscow, Russia – New York, USA
