BARBARA KRUGER, Your gaze hits the side of my face, 2013
5-5/8 inches, width ca 1-3/4 inches
tortoise/black sunglasses with red temples
fabric drawstring sleeve for glasses, box
edition 100
published by LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
not available
The sentence “Your gaze hits the side of my face” phrase first appeared in an 1981 artwork along with the profile of an anonymous classical bust. A phrasing that suggests that such a gaze is impertinent. When it comes to the lens of a camera Barbara Kruger says: ‘What it menas to put a camera at another person, I think there is a brutality about that.’
Extra information:
Other versions published by LACMA each in an edition of 100:
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Think Piece, 2013 [set of Icelandic and English version]
(Það er fallegt en sorglegt að vera manneskja / It is beautiful but sad to be a human being)
each ca 8 x 8 x 10 cm
ball of glass with text, red ribbon with text, cardboard box
Christmas ball in original silver coloured box with small booklets in English and Icelandic
signed in print on each object
limited edition
set of two balls € 240,-
Ragnar Kjartansson says the following about this work: “It was Christmas night, 1998, and I was sitting in the living room with my father. Everyone else had gone to bed, the candles were burning out, and rain was falling on the Christmas snow outside. My father usually gets a bit drunk at Christmas and feels it’s important to use the festive occasion to instruct his son in the principles of life. This Christmas he was in a particularly good mood. We were smoking cigars and he had a glass of cognac in his hand. Suddenly, his breath heavy, he said: “Ragnar, I need to tell you something, and it is the most important thing that I will ever tell you.” He closed his eyes and there was a long silence. Then he said: “It is beautiful but sad to be a human being.” It had a profound effect on me. Now this truthful contradiction decorates the Globe of Goodwill.”
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Think Piece (Það er fallegt en sorglegt að vera manneskja*), 2013
ca 8 x 8 x 10 cm
ball of glass with printed text, red ribbon with text, cardboard box
Christmas ball in original silver coloured box with small booklets in English and Icelandic
signed in print
limited edition
€ 140,-
* English trans. It is beautiful but sad to be a human being
AI WEIWEI, Maybe being powerful means to be fragile, 2013
skateboard
hand numbered, signed in print on deck
edition 150
mint
published by TheSK8room.com
€ 795,- + € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AWei 000-pr
This is part of a set of hand-numbered and signed skateboard decks by Chinese artist and dissident, Ai Weiwei. These carry recognisable images from his oeuvre, including porcelain crabs and sesame seeds, accompanied by one of Ai’s aphorisms, such as “The World is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility” and “There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship in the world.”
History of prices:
Roseberys, London, UK 9 March, 2021 € 584,- (hammer price)
TheSK8room.com September 2013 € 300,- (year of issue)
AI WEIWEI, There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship in the world, 2013
skateboard
hand numbered, signed in print on deck
edition 150
published by TheSK8room.com
This is part of a set of hand-numbered and signed skateboard decks by Chinese artist and dissident, Ai Weiwei. These carry recognisable images from his oeuvre, including porcelain crabs and sesame seeds, accompanied by one of Ai’s aphorisms, such as “The World is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility” and “There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship in the world.”
AI WEIWEI, Dropping a Han dynasty urn, 2013
50 x 70 cm
linen tea towel, Weiwei-ism quote
published by Third Drawer Down, Indooroopilly, Australia
price in year of issue AU$ 40.- September 2013
AI WEIWEI, Sunflower Seeds, 2010
40 x 40 cm
silk handkerchief, hand rolled edges
sealed wrapping
published by Third Drawer Down, Indooroopilly, Australia
Sunflower Seeds was an installation made up of ten million unique porcelain sunflower seeds. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of sixteen hundred inhabitants with skilled hands. The seeds were displayed at Tate Modern Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds formed a seemingly infinite landscape.
Sunflower Seeds; interview with Ai WeiWei about the production of ceramic seeds for Tate Modern Turbine Hall in London.
