DAVID HORVITZ, Studio Rent Edition – November, 2017
print on tracing paper, 5 parts, incl. envelope
signed, dated, numbered
edition 10, here 5/10
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Each month David Horvitz makes 10 editioned pieces, each of which costs 1/10th of his studio rent. Subscriber receive the edition through mail.
‘In 2010, I was living in Brooklyn. I had just received my MFA from Bard College and I was trying to figure out a studio situation. I don’t necessarily need a studio to make my work, but I’ve always felt it is important to have a designated place outside my home to go to. A silent place where I could sit and think. A place to drink green tea and daydream, to develop thoughts and leave those thoughts there for the next day.
Since I didn’t have a full time job, I couldn’t see myself paying rent for a New York studio over a long period of time. And so I came up with an idea. I would make an edition-of-ten artwork each month. Maybe it was a photograph turned into a postcard, or some photocopies, or a text-work, or a LaserJet print, a watercolor of a flower I stole while walking down the street, or an envelope of sand from a California beach.’ David Horvitz, April 2016
DAVID HORVITZ, Public Access, 2011
23,1 x 19,3 cm
artist’s book, SC
mint
published by Publication Studio
€ 60,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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This edition was printed in 2011. A later edition from 2012 was published with a different book couver.
‘Publication Studio (founded in 2009 in Portland, Oregon) prints and binds books one at a time on-demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire. We use any means possible to help writers and artists reach a public: physical books, an online library, eBooks and unique social events with our writers and artists in many cities.’ From website Publication Studio.
DAVID HORVITZ, Everything that can happen in a day, n.d. [2008]
57,8 x 41,8 cm
offset on newsprint, twice folded as published
published by the artist
condition: yellowed
€ 120,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registred EU mail
inv.DHor 910
DAVID HORVITZ, Untitled (la Grande Salinette), 2023
10,5 x 15,8 cm
postcard, sand, mat glue
signed, dated, numbered
edition 30
mint
published by More Publishers, Quenast, Belgium
For purchase contact www.morepublishers.be
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Plage la Grande Salinette is a popular seaside resort with a view on the bay of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer in France. The owners of publishing house More Publishers invited David Horvitz to make a postcard for a next edition. He came up with the idea to glue beach sand of that resort on a card. Hence the above postcard “Untitled (la Grande Salinette)” that was produced on the spot.
The back of the card mentions ‘From a distance…” that refers to a series of postcards that the publishers Tim Ryckaert and Amélie Laplanche have started to issue in 2023. Every time when they stay in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer (France) they may launch a new edition produced on the spot. Hence the name of this series that alludes with the fact that a plan is proposed by an artist and carried out from a distance…, while the publishing house is located in Belgium.
DAVID HORVITZ, Write a letter to the moon, 2019
11,4 x 16,2 cm
2 postcards, FR stamp / US stamp, 2 orange envelopes
published by Jean Boîte Éditions, Paris, France
mint
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The works of David Horvitz relate often to notions of nature such as the ocean, the sea, beach, rain or sky. Not seldom his text works call to action suggesting that mankind is loosing contact with nature. A touch of nostalgia is never far away.
History of prices:
Jean Boîte Éditions, Paris, France, February 2023 € 15,-
Jean Boîte Éditions, Paris, France, July 2022 € 10,-
DAVID HORVITZ, Studio Rent Editions, 2015
29,7 x 21 cm
mail in print
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Hi,
After a year of itinerant studios in free residences, I’ve re-started my studio rent edition series. If you don’t know this, they are a series of monthly editions that subsidizes my monthly studio rent. They are all an edition of 10 and sold for 1/10th of my studio rent. I’ve done this for years. Most of previous ones are sold out (some are available at my gallery in Berlin). Each month I send out an email describing the new piece, and you can purchase one, and it is then mailed to ou. Maybe this series could also be seen a a monthly mail art project as well. I’ve stopped posting info online, just sending their descriptions through emails like this, to keep things more ephemeral.
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DAVID HORVITZ, Mood disorder, 2015
35 x 25 cm
SC, 72 pp., stapled
edition 2000
condition: very good
published by Chert, Berlin/Motto Books, Berlin-Lausanne/New Documents, Los Angeles-Vancouver
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David Horvitz’s self-portrait with his head in his hands, ocean waves crashing in the background, was initially uploaded by him to the Wikimedia Commons, and placed on various Wikipedia pages. Mood Disorder documents the appropriation of David Horvitz’s photograph across the internet. The image began to circulate more intensely, appearing on over a hundred websites as a “stock” photo to illustrate articles on a wide range of mental health and wellness issues.
This artist’s book is still available at various selling venues.
DAVID HORVITZ, Everything that can happen in a day, n.d. [2008]
57,8 x 41,8 cm
offset on newsprint, twice folded as published
published by the artist
condition: splendid
inv.DHor 907
DAVID HORVITZ, Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film, 2009
13 x 13 cm
DVD, plastic sleeve, photo copied cover hand written title by the artist on disc, as issued
edition 30
published by Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
mint condition extremely rare
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‘In 2006 the clip Newly Found Bas Jan Ader Film appeared on YouTube. The six second clip features a man bicycling into the sea. It is announced as a work by Bas Jan Ader found at UC Irvine, where Ader was teaching in the 1970s. The story is not unlikely. Bas Jan Ader, who was lost at sea in 1975 while undertaking an Atlantic crossing that was to be the second work in a series he entitled In Search of the Miraculous, left a small body of highly noticeable works, mostly short films and photographs. One of these works, Fall II, Amsterdam from 1970, is a short sequence showing Ader biking along and then into a canal. The newly found work could be a related iteration. As many of Bas Jan Ader’s works show, he was interested in inserting his own body into a relationship with gravity, investigating phases of transition, the time and space between two locatable states, from standing up to falling down, from hanging from a tree to hitting the surface of the pond below.
It was revealed that Horvitz was in fact the author of this newly found work. Assumingly on request from the gallery Patrick Painter who represents Bas Jan Ader’s estate, Youtube removed the clip for ‘copyright infringement,’ only for it to reappear soon again posted on an account carrying the name of PatrickPainterGaller – most likely Horvitz’s work. Currently you can find the clip as the first video appearing when googling ‘Bas Jan Ader,’ and also on the official Bas Jan Ader website under the section Homages. However tricksterish Horvitz’s effort may appear, it does also expose a great admiration of Ader’s work and kinship to the ideas he brought forth. Newly Found Bas Jan Ader Film was not produced to be shown in a gallery space. It was rather a device that, circulating on the internet, triggered certain mechanisms and revealed how a number of parties reacted to the potential existence of a never before seen Bas Jan Ader work. Horvitz reveals how it is possible to insert new information into already existing narratives and shift their immediate appearance. A work by David Horvitz is today a very visible part of a Google search for ‘Bas Jan Ader’. It is fair to say that he faked his way into this hierarchy of information, but the fact that he succeeded so well is worth our attention. It points to our unfounded reliance on whatever a Google search brings us, and comments on the potentialities of the fake as well as questions our relationship to the real.’ From “But Mr. Horvitz, Where Is The Work?”.
Helga Christoffersen, 2010
Additional information
In 2009 the 2nd Cannons Gallery published a flip book called “Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film” which comprises stills from the film. The book is accompanied with a free 2-sided newsprint David Horvitz produced for his exhibition at the gallery.
