JONATHAN MONK, Push or Pull?, 2012
30 x 20 x 0,8 cm
anodized aluminum door sign, transparent perspex
signed and numbered on certificate, edition of 20 + 3 A.P.
More Publishers, Brussels, Belgium
inv.JMon 000
In 2006 Jonathan Monk told David Shrigley in an interview: “I now think the only thing that stayed with me after art school was the idea of context. What and where things are placed in relationship to other things in the world.” The work ‘Push or Pull?’ could be quite well considered as such a thing, the more since the question mark seems to refer to anyone who stands in front of a glass door swiftly deciding either to push or pull. If this sign would be mounted on a glass door in a practical way, the question mark in the title would’t make much sense apart from being very practical for getting a door open in the right way. In order to safe the interrogative part in this work one could easily imagine to mount the transparant persex door sign in a non-practical way on a glass door. Meaning that if one pushes the door it will be blocked and at once the question is raised: ‘Push or Pull?’. KvG May 2013
ROB SCHOLTE, De Angst!, 2004
22,3 x 22,3 cm (18,3 x 18,3)
jigsaw puzzle, glued on cardboard as issued
signed, dated
edition unknown
condition: splendid very rare
inv.RSch 000-pr
It is not clear whether the image is a cartoon, as almost all medieval etchings show the Dutch-Belgian lion looking to the right. The lion on Rob Scholte’s puzzle looks to the left with the shield mirrored, engraved with “Erich Wichman”. The names of the towns and rivers on the map stayed readable. Is the lion’s gaze pointing back towards an opposite direction?
Erich Wichmann joined the Amsterdam city council in 1921 as co-founder with his Rapaille Party ‘Had-je-me-maar’. The puzzle is above all a tribute to contrariness in general and not so much to Wichmann’s sympathies for fascism at the end of his life. He was a Dutch artist, eccentric, anti-parliamentary troublemaker and anti-bourgeois writer. His paintings (on display in, among others, the Centraal Museum, Utrecht) are not without merit as such.
“Begin jaren 90 heeft Scholte De Angst! als jigsaw-puzzle doen uitgeven, waarvan dit een exemplaar is. De oplage is onbekend, maar de uitgave is uiterst zeldzaam. Door Scholte achterop getiteld, gedateerd (2004) en gesigneerd. Ref. De Angst ! text in Dutch; Rob Scholte Museum, Den Helder, Netherlands
JOHN M ARMLEDER, 1984
87,6 cm x 48,3 cm / 34.5 x 19 inch
acrylic paint, pencil on canvas
edition 60 + 5 AP
published by John Gibson Gallery, New York, USA
not available
John M Armleder is known for mixing functional objects with casual abstract geometric artworks leading to estranged juxtapositions and logics.
History of prices:
John Gibson Gallery, New York US$ 3000.- July 1985
Benefit Auction SI, New York, USA estimated $18,000.- November 2012
JCJ VANDERHEYDEN, Atelier Concreet, 1992
50,7 x 40,5 cm
with painted wooden object mounted on black and white photograph
artist’s box frame
edition 5
published by the artist mint
very rare
€ 4.500,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail – private collection
inv.JCJ 000-pr
On behalf of his solo exhibition “Simultaneous” in Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam JCJ Vanderheyden made this special photo-with-painting edition. On top of a studio photo Vanderheyden mounted a tiny painting on wood re-staging the realistic situation in his studio in the right proportion, although factually on a much smaller scale. A copy of this very small edition is also in the collection of Centraal Museum in Utrecht.
STEVEN PARRINO, untitled, 1993 [Iggy Pop]
25 x 16,2 cm
photo copy / collage
uncut invite, verso: duct tape, artist’s name ink stamped
edition 10
GALERIE VAN GELDER EDITION
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 960,- + € 18,- registered EU mail
Steven Parrino was known for having a preference for black, i.e. black cloths, black sunglasses, black paint on canvas, black noise, black duct tape (although he preferred to wrap his crumpled canvasses in silver coloured duct tape). Vintage cars, Harley Davidson motorbikes and Chevrolet motor blocks were also among his favorites to use in his art. The shortening “SS” for Super Sport is a signature performance option package offered by Chevrolet on a limited number of its vehicles. All SS models come with distinctive “SS” markings on their exterior. The SS package was first made available for the 1961 Impala. Here Steven Parrino combined a motor block with a mooning Iggy Pop (?) in black and white on an uncut invitation card. For the occasion of his show an improvised edition was issued.
HENRYK GAJEWSKI, Audio Child, 1983
20,8 x 14,9 cm
8 pages with announcements: 2. September Chris Wainwright, 20.30 “Light Works” and 9. September Henryk Gajewski, 20.30 “Audio Child 1983” + stickers inlay with “Audio Child – non stop” as issued
published by Vereniging van Videokunstenaars / Association of Video Artists, Amsterdam
splendid condition
€ 145,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.HGaje 989-pr
Most of the time this publication misses the strip of stickers. You may listen to the audio at Audio Child
Members of the board of the Association of Video Artists:
Ulises Carrión, David Garcia, Madelon Hooykaas, Grietha Jurriens, Paul Müller, Wies Smals
Staff: Aart van Barneveld, Lucie Vermij
YVONNE DRÖGE WENDEL, Item of the Item Store, 2008 [nr 19]
ca 35 x 35 x 26 cm, two bunches of tags (stored in white envelope “nr 19”)
YVONNE DRÖGE WENDEL
Item of the Item Store (2008)
This object [nr 19] with a pair of glossy tags attached is one of the items that were put on display in her Item Store 2008. They are all made of the same grey-green fabric, although they vary in size and shape, they look similar in their clumsiness. The charts as tags are ad randomly pinned on each object and are meant to guide the observer’s perception. As such these labels reveal a relational identity of the objects through a wide range of manuals, stories, images, histories or color charts printed on these.
Although the labels have been deliberately attached to the specific objects in principle they are exchangeable and the items are open to any kind of interpretation.
“All items are ready to be uploaded with the thoughts of the observer. Play with your perception and see your emotions jump from a label to an object and from an object to a label. Make a choice and imagine a new thing!”
The fascination for things is a consistent factor in her work and life. Yvonne Dröge Wendel is concerned with the relationship between people, objects and context. With a philosophical approach she aims to capture what it is that objects actually do. i.e. do to the owners and to people in general: “Few people realize that in fact objects play an important role in the way they act, the choices they make and how their body is influenced by these.”
In January 1992 for her final exam at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam Yvonne Dröge married a cupboard (Wendel Ltd.) that she owned since she was a child and that carried precious recollections for her.
KvG
TAKAKO SAITO, Würfelstuhl, 1979
3,2 x 7,2 x 5,1 cm
signed, dated, numbered / here nr. 23/75
edition 75
published by E. Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany
€ 1.150,- plus € 16,- registered mail Trace & Track
inv.TSait 695
This edition is also in the collection of the Moma, New York, USA: Takako Saito. The work was a gift from The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection.
TAKAKO SAITO, Würfelstuhl, 1979
3,2 x 7,2 x 5,1 cm
signed, dated, numbered / here nr. 60/75 sold
edition 75
published by E. Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany
KEITH HARING, Pop Shop pin, 1986
diameter 2,4 cm
dated and name tagged in print
edition unknown
mint
published by Pop Shop, Soho, New York, USA
€ 50,- plus € 12,- track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.KHa 000-pr
This pin was bought at Keith Haring’s Pop Shop in Manhattan in 1986
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