BEN VAUTIER, Écrire entre les lignes, ca 2012
plastic display for shop counter, 50 pens with 4 different sentences in print
Parker Guitars Vector
published by Parker Pen Company, Newhaven, East Sussex, UK extremely rare
pristine
€ 4.800,- + € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.BVau 000-pr
A word, a thought or a slogan like ‘To write between the lines’ is in the art of Ben Vautier a trade mark for many years now. He is known for his performances, installations, his Fluxus shop in Nice and texts on paintings and objects. Writing his texts in white-on-black is his favorite activity. He calls his art Total Art.
Private entrepreneurs gladly make use of his tongue-in-cheek words. Here Parker Pen Company managed to make a deal with the artist concerning Ben Big Box products. This is definitely a sculpture and not so much a counter display for selling Parker pens.
CLAUDE CLOSKY, Dada DIY, 2012
chain 71 cm / letters 2 cm, box
mixed media
edition 100
published by Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
Claude Closky is known for making Appropriation art using advertising, fashion and commodity items. Making a fashionable bracelet and at the same time referring to a protest movement like Dada is a kind of double Appropriation art, i.e. a kind of contamination of Prada and Dada Do It Yourself. See also Jonathan Monk’s ‘Dada Necklace’ (2012) apparently has responded to this multiple.
History of prices:
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France € 80,- October 2012
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France € 100,- January 2013
Artspace, New York, USA € 312,- / US$ 400.- April 2013
JONATHAN MONK, Dada Necklace, 2012
MDF, brass plated steel chain, silver spray paint on cardboard
73 x 37 cm / 9,4 x 10,3 cm, chaîne: 90 cm
edition 100
produced by Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
With this piece it seems that Jonathan Monk responded to the Dada bracelet of his French collegue Claude Closky who is known for making Appropriation art using advertising, fashion and commodity items. Closky made a fashionable bracelet ‘Dada DIY’ referring to the protest movement Dada, as well as to a fashion brand like Prada, making his bracelet into a kind of double Appropriation art. Jonathan Monk is known for recycling ideas of established artists and probably in turn decided to make his own necklace out of the four letters with chain, as a triple appropriated art work.
History of prices:
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France € 150,- October 2012
JONATHAN MEESE, Ausgewählte Schriften zur Diktatur der Kunst, 2012
40 x 30 cm
canvas, plaster, book, paint
edition 20 + 5 A.P.
numbered, signed
published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany
not available
JONATHAN MONK, Untitled, 2012
tote bag: print on canvas, incl. catalogue ‘We Showed’ 2012
signed by Jonathan Monk & Axel Haubrok
edition 100
published by Haubrok Edition, Berlin, Germany
DAMIEN HIRST, untitled, 2012
print on tea towel
published by Other Criteria, London, UK
Damien Hirst is entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists, who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. No matter how many spot paintings there are on whatever, there will always be more words spilled over them. Always structured on the grid the works on canvas look as if they were generated by machine. Here, indeed, dots are printed on a tea towel.
Other Criteria was founded as a publishing company in 2005 by Damien Hirst, Hugh Allan and Frank Dunphy, with creative directorship from Jason Beard and based in Marylebone, London, UK.
History of prices:
Artspace, New York, USA October 2023 € 287,-
eBay-positive_star_japan, October 2023 US$ 174.-
Other Criteria, London, England September 2012 € 18,-
JASPER JOHNS, Red Yellow Blue, 2012
178 x 153 cm / 60 x 70 inches
beach towel
published by Art Production Fund: Works On Whatever, New York, USA
Jasper Johns’s sense of the distinction between saying and showing produced a memorable declaration: ‘When you begin to work with the idea of suggesting, say, a particular psychological state of affairs, you have eliminated so much from the process of painting that you make an artificial statement which is, I think, not desirable. I think one has to work with everything and accept the kind of statement which results as unavoidable, or as a helpless situation. I think that most art which begins to make a statement fails to make a statement because the methods used are too schematic or too artificial. I think that one wants from painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement.’
History of price:
Art Production Fund: Works On Whatever, New York, USA $ 95.- September 2012 (year of issue)
BARBARA KRUGER, Call me, 2012
178 x 153 cm / 60 x 70 inches
beach towel, original wrapping, tag
pristine condition
published by Art Production Fund: Works On Whatever, New York, USA
p.o.r.
Much of Barbara Kruger’s work engages the merging of found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to. She develops her ideas on a computer, later transferring the results to oftentimes billboard-sized images.
History of prices:
Wright Auction, Chicago, USA 12 August 2021 € 596,- (hammer price)
Wright Auction, Chicago, USA 18 November 2020 € 1.203,-
Arthema Auction, Lille, France 26 September 2015 € 290,- (hammer price)
Art Production Fund: Works On Whatever, New York, USA September 2012 (year of issue) USA US$ 95.-
YOKO ONO, Imagine Peace, 2012
178 x 153 cm / 60 x 70 inches
beach towel
published by Art Production Fund: Works On Whatever, New York, USA
Imagine Piece is Yoko Ono’s worldwide initiative of anti-violence. This ongoing project uses internet projects, posters, thoughts, badges and a multitude of other medias to communicate its message of peace to the global community. Here she used a beach towel. The record ‘Imagine’ conveyed John Lennon’s wish for world peace and harmony in simple terms, both musically and lyrically. It fact it was inspired by ‘Cloud Piece’, an instructional poem dated Spring 1963 that appeared in Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit: Imagine the clouds dripping.
Dig a hole in your garden to
put them in.
History of price:
Art Production Fund: Works On Whatever, New York, USA € 75,- / US$ 95.- September 2012
ELVIRE BONDUELLE, Pour faire joli, 2011
pin, 3 parts, en laiton plaqué or ou argent massif, edition unknown
Elvire Bonduelle, Paris, France € 95,- September 2012
