AI WEIWEI, The World is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility, 2013
skateboard
hand numbered, signed in print on deck
edition 150
published by TheSK8room.com
This is part of a set of three, hand-numbered and signed in print skateboard decks by Ai Weiwei. In the works of Ai Weiwei, the story and political context is important, if not more relevant than the objects themselves. In the case of the depicted crabs on his skate board design he refers to a story about a dinner party Ai arranged in 2010 as a protest against a sudden bureaucratic decision to demolish his brand-new studio. In 2008 when the mayor of Jiading (a northern district of Shanghai) invited Ai to build a studio space that would provide a cultural center for the city. The government promised to provide all the proper permits and to support the studio’s construction. Soon after the building was completed in 2010, the same government pledged to demolish Ai’s newly built studio. In response, Ai invited friends and supporters via Twitter to gather in his studio’s courtyard for a feast of 10,000 river crabs standing for the false “harmony” and invitation the government offered. Ai was placed under house arrest and couldn’t attend the feast with the crabs, but it went on without him. In the beginning of 2011 the studio was razed.
Based on stories like the one above porcelain crabs and sesame seeds have become part of his oeuvre, accompanied by one of his aphorisms, such as “The World is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility” or “There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship in the world.”
TAUBA AUERBACH, untitled, 2013 [clock]
diameter 26, cm
clock, battery, original wrapping
edition unknown
published by The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco, CA, USA
Tauba Auerbach plays in a phenomenological way with readability and abstraction, permeability and solidity – phenomena that she unifies within surfaces and volumes. Here in her clockwork multiple she has compressed the traditional clock plate with Roman figures from I-XII into figures from I – XXIII plus a nil position representing figure XXIV.
DAVID HORVITZ, Untitled (sand mailed by the artist’s mother from California), 2013
11 x 14,5 cm / 10,7 x 16,6 cm
stamped address on envelope / plastic bag with sand
unlimited edition
published by the artist
inv.DHor 000-pr
Untitled (sand mailed by the artist’s mother from California) is a work that consists of a posted envelope of sand from the Californian beach by the artist’s former home, where his mother still resides. Originally the artist’s mother sends this sand by post to the buyer. This same beach and sand is a repetitive motif for Horvitz and has been used for several projects including: Rarely seen Bas Jan Ader, Disappear, Public Access, The Distance of a Day and his Studio Rent Editions.
BEN VAUTIER, introspection truth art & sex, 2013
issued in linen bound cardboard box (7,4 x 18,5 x 24,9 cm)
content: 4 parts, screen print on mirror (21,2 x 15,2 cm), two books with embossed texts (0,8 x 21,6 x 15,3 cm / 2,8 x 21,6 x 15,3 cm), larger book hand signed in red felt pen ink with embossed number #20
all items in black linen bound display box
edition 100 + 10 AP, of which 50 numbered 1-50 and 50 HC Roman numbered from I – L mint
Published by Global Art Affairs Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands
€ 495,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.BVau 000-pr
History of prices:
Singulart.com, Parijs, France September 2026 € 1.190,-
eBay-kunstwest, Cologne, Germany October 2024 € 1.450,- (Make an offer)
Germann Auktionshaus, Zurich, Switzerland 26 June 2024 € 271,- (hammer price)
Jeschke Jádi Auctions, Berlin, Germany 23 June 2023 € 370,- (hammer price)
DAMIEN HIRST, Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purpose of Understanding (Left), 1991 – shopping bag 2013
ca 35 x 40 x 20 cm
firm plastic PVC bag, lenticular print, canvas handles, tag, printed text on bottom
edition unknown mint extremely rare
published by Tate Modern, London, UK
€ 1.850,- plus € 32 Track & Trace registred EU mail
inv.DHir 000-pr
GARY HUME, 1000 Windows, 2013
37 x 31,5 cm
black hand painted surface, paper, yellow frame, cardboard box
series of 1000
signed
published by Tate Modern, London, England
mint
€ 800,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
In 2002 Gary Hume painted Yellow Window. In 2013 he multiplied one window a thousand times, hence the title 1000 Windows. This edition comes in original wrapping.
History of prices:
eBay-thearteryfineart, Boston, MA, USA US$ 1,200.- September 2022
Additional information:
GARY HUME Yellow Window , 2002 (unique painting
135 x 98 cm / 53 1/8 x 38 5/8 inches
gloss paint on aluminum, signed, dated
Sold at Christie’s estimate GBP 8,000 – 12,000 and sold for GBP 25,000.- / € 29.000,- February 2012
LIZ MAGIC LASER, We’re Looking For You, 2013
ca 61 x 25 x 12 cm (bag size: 34 x 25 x 12 cm)
screen print on tote bag
limited edition
mint
published by The Armory Show, New York, USA
€ 170,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.Tassen 818-pr
In August of 2012, The Armory Show invited Laser to serve as its commissioned artist. She accepted in October, agreeing to produce limited-edition artworks and to shape the visual identity of the fair through VIP cards, invitations, signage, Jack Spade tote bags, and employee T-shirts. Laser enlisted the help of market research analyst Ben Allen of Labrador Agency to conduct a series of focus groups with art consumers. She had The Armory Show invite members of the arts community—a range of collectors, curators, museum professionals, art advisors and critics—to participate in group discussions that would ultimately determine how she would lend her identity to The Armory Show. Laser conducted a series of six focus groups, each consisting of ten participants and lasting two hours. The first sessions in early November 2012 were devoted to “exploratory” market research in which participants were asked to characterize The Armory Show’s current status and the critical value of Laser’s work. They were then prompted to suggest how she might apply her artistic strategies most effectively to the fair. Based on feedback from the first sessions, Laser developed prototypes of art editions and visual motifs, which were “taste- tested” by later groups that convened in late November for what the artist deemed the “validation and refinement phase.” Laser’s video, The Armory Show Focus Group (2013), assembles the most useful viewpoints, culled from over twelve hours of focus group discussion footage
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Think Piece, 2013
ca 8 x 8 x 10 cm
English version: It is beautiful but sad to be a human being
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
limited edition
€ 180,-
TRACY EMIN, My Photo Album, 2013
22 x 18 cm
offset, including art paper print (10 x 8 inches)
signed, dated, edition 100
published by Fuel Publishing, London, England
not available
My Photo Album, which is largely about her childhood and teenage years and not so much about being a confrontational artist she is known for today. It is a personal stash of circa 10,000 photos.
not available
History of prices:
Fuel Publishing, London, England GBP 150.- May 2013
JOHN BOCK, Odor – Heimer, 2013
16,5 x 17,1 x 4 cm
286 grams
cardboard box, four test tubes with different liquids/fragrances, magnetic lid, rolled up drawing in print, text in German and English
regular edition 400
mint
published by Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany
History of prices
Stefan Schuelke Fine Books, Cologne, Germany January 2025 € 35,-
Antiquariat Querido-Frank Hermann, Düsseldorf, Germany May € 30,-
Buchhandlung W. Koenig, Cologne, Germany May 2013 € 38,-
Additional information.
Apart from the regular edition of 400 on behalf of a solo exhibition at Kunstverein Hamburg six signed copies with unique drawings were for sale. Each cardboard box came with a felt pen drawing by John Bock made for the occasion.
JOHN BOCK, Odor – Heimer, 2013
unique series of 6 signed boxes
drawing on cardboard box, four test glasses with differents fragrances, magnetic lid, rolled up drawing in print, text in German and English
initiated by Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany, May 2013
not available
