KENDELL GEERS, Point Blank, 2004 [artist’s book]

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KENDELL GEERS, Point Blank, 2004
21 x 15 x 0,8 cm
artist’s book. offset, bullet holes, gun powder sooth; comes in cellophane bag
edition 30
signed, numbered
published by Imschoot, Uitgevers, Ghent, Belgium
€ 1.400,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.KGee 000-pr

Seven bullet holes are randomly shot into the blank pages of this artist book. The cover has residue of gun powder. The publisher suggests that Kendell Geers’ exile from his homeland of South Africa and its violence during Apartheid inspired him to make this multiple with gun shots. The sooth of gunpowder is spread over the front of the cover and the cellophane bag has created several hardly visible hair thin scratches in the layer of sooth.

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History of prices:
Saint Martin Bookshop, Brussels, Belgium November 2023 € 500,- unsigned
Saint Martin Bookshop, Brussels, Belgium November 2023 € 350,- unsigned

YANN SÉRANDOUR, BHKW, 2003 [badge]

Yann Sérandour, BHKW, 2003
diameter 32 mm
badge
photograph Seth Siegelaub 1969
1st edition 100
2nd edition 200, produced in 2005
published by Alice Travel Cie, Paris, France

not available

Yann Sérandour made a badge from a photograph taken by Seth Siegelaub on the occasion of an exhibition in January 31 May, 1969. The image on the badge shows American conceptual artists Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner as the members of a rock band.

LILY VAN DER STOKKER, Good, 2003 [cap]

LILY VAN DER STOKKER, Good – Viktor & Rolf cap, 2003
11 x 27 x 17 cm
fabric, print on cap, Viktor & Rolf seal, Viktor & Rolf label, original code tag
ca 6 produced for retail presentation
p.o.r.

“Viktor & Rolf liked my work for years and asked me to design something sweet for men. In the end they came to my studio and took a design for a T-shirt from 1992 – an all-over flower pattern which had in it the word “good” with rays around it” said Lily van der Stokker in an interview with John Waters in 2010.

In 2003 Viktor & Rolf produced for preorders and image reasons a shirt, sweater, bumber jacket, trousers, hand bag, tie, cap with a design of Lily van der Stokker. After the introduction for retailers extremely small orders were taken and later on the line was never taken into production; hence very few items of these products can be found on the market.

Nowadays during a live streaming customers can click on any garment they want to order as soon as production is completed. Those orders (with payment) contain valuable ‘consumer feedback’ for fashion houses. Manufacturers know exactly how popular a particular garment may become. Moreover, a preorder with advance says much more than a “like” on Facebook, that not necessarily means a purchase intent.

JONATHAN MONK, My Height in Blue Ballpoint Pen, 2003

JONATHAN MONK, My Height in Blue Ballpoint Pen, 2003
10 x 15 cm
yellow marker, postcard
series of unique cards, edition 200, signed, dated
published by Lisson Gallery, London, England

Jonathan Monk’s both ‘My Height in Blue Ballpoint Pen’ (2003) melds the portable character of a postcard with the practice of marking one’s changing height on an unmovable wall. The postcard should be installed on any wall with the line six feet above the floor.

 

History of prices:
Lisson Gallery, London, England, price in year of issue GBP 35.-

FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER, Works 1958 – 1970, 2003

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FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER, Works 1958 – 1970, 2003
17 x 24 x 5 cm
5 clothes, 20 reproductions, 9 artist’s texts in box; comes with original wrapping with sticker
edition 100
signed, numbered
published by Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan
pristine
€ 980,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.FEWal 502
 

The edition “Works 1958 – 1970” is based on early performance works of Franz Erhard Walther.

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GARY HUME, Love Letter in Your Pyjamas, 2002 [paper shopping bag]

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GARY HUME, Love Letter in Your Pyjamas, 2002
40 x 30 x 12 cm
offset print, paper shopping bag
signed in print, machine numbered
limited edition 4810, here nr 203/4810
produced by Mont Blanc, Paris, France
pristine condition
€ 265,- + costs of registered mail

In 2005 Mont Blanc Ltd carefully produced shopping bags in a remarkable high quality paper made by various well-known artists. See Mont Blanc paper bag editions at TAIL.