CLAUDE CLOSKY, Invisible Books, 2022
set of 5 postcards, cellofan envelope
edition 250
mint
published by Edition Taube, Munich-Zurich
For purchase see: Taube Books – Claude Closky
inv.CCl 000
This set of 5 postcards in transparent envelope shows and describes five kinds of books: Unseeable Books, Imperceptible Books, Invisible Books, Ethereal Books and Undetectable Books. None of these categories is present in the depicted book cases. Claude Closky imagined to have them filled with these five kinds of books as a kind of wish to show the “unmanifested” among the incessant flow of images that surrounds us.
OLIVIER MOSSET, Sans titre, 1995
35 × 35 cm
etching
signed, numbered
edition 150 + 5 HC
published by CEC / Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
inv.OM 000
This circle within a circle was etched on a square copper plate. Its blind imprint is barely noticeable since there are no scratches in the non-engraved parts that is so characteristic for common etchings.
The edition was offered to members of the Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine Association in 1995.
BOB and ROBERTA SMITH, Art Is The New Rock’n’Roll, 2022
ca 70 x 35 cm
screen print on tote bag
limited edition
published by Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
For purchase see: Bob and Roberta Smith, shop Museum Voorlinden.
inv.B&RS 942
This Tote bag comes in two versions, one in red and one in black.
JONATHAN MEESE, Nabob zu Nabob = D.A.F. (Menschheit), 2000
130 x 60 x 8 cm
plastic shopping bag, text on paper and mixed media: collage with colour photo, red paint, one dollar banknote, sock, injection syringes, printed matter
3 parts, folded as issued
2x signed, dated
series of unique works in an edition of 100 + 20 AP
published by Texte zur Kunst, Berlin, Germany
€ 1.200,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
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This object out of the edition is one of the few larger objects consisting of a unique collage and a sheet of paper with a text written in felt pen ink. Each multiple came with a plastic shopping bag, hence three parts.
Jonathan Meese is known for ‘Repeating incantations aloud or holding up cardboard signs with formulas as if to invoke the gods and placate them. Consequently, Meese designed an amulet for texts on art. It is amazing how Meese’s artistic repertoire changes in these amulets entitled “Nabob to Nabob = D.A.F. (Humanity)” condensed. Announcement Texte zur Kunst, 2000.
The cardboard amulets are roughly held together by pieces of cardboard or wood and glue, which is reminiscent of Meese’s quickly built structures made of wooden sticks. The amulet also pushes his cult around the new wave band D.A.F. (German-American Friendship).
Half of the edition was published with collages, each made as a unique object. A part is dated 2001. The other half consisted of hexagonal hangers made of plexiglass with a portrait of one of the members of the Electropunk and cult band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
Verso:
History of prices:
Van Ham Auktionen, Cologne, Germany – Online 6 April 2018 € 774,- (height 42,5 cm)
Van Ham Auktionen, Cologne, Germany 26 November 2014 € 581,- (height 42 cm)
Extra information about the other half of the TzK edition:
OLIVIER MOSSET, Untitled, 2008
30 x 30 x 2 cm
analogue photo print, di-bond
edition 10 + 3 AP
Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam
€ 3.800,- plus € 25,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.OM 000-pr
“De Zwitserse kunstenaar Olivier Mosset is het meest bekend om zijn conceptuele schilderkunst waarbij het niet moest gaan om zaken als originaliteit of auteursrecht die belangrijk zijn voor de kunstmarkt maar puur en alleen om het kunstwerk zelf. Hij maakte en maakt echter ook heel ander werk. Bij Fluxus in New York bijvoorbeeld verscheen in de jaren ‘60 een editie die bestond uit een plastic doosje met rode papiersnippertjes. Kees van Gelder, oprichter van de gelijknamige Galerie van Gelder, heeft ooit zijn stand op Art Rotterdam laten vol storten met soortgelijke stukjes papier, maar dan in de kleur grijs. Prachtig werk, en vast nog wel ergens te koop. Zelf bezit ik een auto van chocolade: Mosset heeft op de doos geschreven dat het een Buick Riviera betreft.”
Harry Ruhé, in GalleryViewer.
JONATHAN MONK, Picture Post Card from Post Box Pictured, 2006
14,8 x 10,5 cm
post card, stamp [delivered on 2-12-2022]
signed
published by Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium
inv.JMon 000
LAWRENCE WEINER, Water & Sand / Sticks & Stones, 1993
13 x 8,5 cm
screen print, cotton, plastic seal bag
edition 2000
published by IMMA Ireland Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
mint
History of price:
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK October 2022 GBP 45.-
JENNY HOLZER, Truisms, in “Stickers Vol.2”, 2019-2022
29,7 x 23 cm
published by Rizzoli International Publications Inc., New York, USA
mint
€ 45,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
For purchase see Stickers Vol.2: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art.
inv.JHol 000-pr
This book was first published in 2019 and reprints were made in 2020, 2021 and 2022. The back of this heavy weight book contains 16 pages of stickers ready to be peeled off. Among these a page with stickers of Jenny Holzer and one of Shepard Fairey.
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Roll over, 2022
10 x 10 x 1 cm
badge, unique
Private collection, Amsterdam
This pin comes from a series of badges that was given by Marijke van Warmerdam during a speech as a present to people who were closely involved in the preparation of her solo exhibition “Then, now, and then” in Landhuis Oud-Amelisweerd / Centraal Museum Utrecht. Each badge out of this series bears the title of one of the 16 film loops in the exhibition.
During a speech on behalf of the opening of her solo exhibition at ZKM in Karlsruhe on 28 October 2022 Marijke van Warmerdam gave several people also a badge bearing the title of one of her film loops.
YANN SÉRANDOUR, Cahiers Clairefontaine, 2006
each 22 x 15 cm
offset, 32 pp., 5 parts out of 6
edition 1500
published by Edition CNEAI, Chatou, France, mint
The printed grids on the notebook pages of ‘Cahiers Clairefontaine’ have been originally hand drawn by pupils of the Jules Verne Primary School in Croissy-sur-Seine in France and were reproduced in print. These notebooks are used for learning to write straight by making use of horizontal blue and vertical red lines.
