ELVIRE BONDUELLE, You are a Tombola winner!, 2012 [mail print]

ELVIRE BONDUELLE, You are a Tombola winner!
print of mail 26 April, 2012
29,7 x 21 cm
print
inv.EB 234-pr

This is a print of a mail about a lot won at a tombola at One Star Press, Paris, France. On the evening of 25th of April Elvire Bonduelle created 26 drawings in a row by means of a ruler, template and colour pencils. The ones who bought lottery tickets could win one of these during her performance. I was one of the winners! KvG

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled, 1991 [artist’s book]

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled, 1991
25,4 x 21,5 cm
SC, 48 pp. + 4 pp.
artist’s book, text by Steven Evens
published by Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
mint condition
not available anymore

The pages of this book are printed with a light blue rectangle against a blue paper background. The work is based on one of the artist’s stack works, recreated on pages. Apart from the two middle pages of the book having an essay by Steven Evans on white paper this work is a crystal clear conceptual allusion of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s stack sculptures of printed matter.

JOHN BROWN, The Vikings, 1980 [artist’s book]

JOHN BROWN, The Vikings, 1980
21,2 x 17,7 cm
SC, stapled, offset
signed, numbered
edition 100, here 93/100
published by 1W1 Communications, Toronto, Canada
condition: toned paper
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
p.o.r
inv.JBro 26-pr

Interpretations of found images is the core of this publication. It is not known whether John Brown (1953) is still active or where he is located.
This book was bought in Ulises Carrión’s bookshop ‘Other Books and So’ in Amsterdam in the early eighties.

 

Added information
This artist’s book is also in the collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.

SALIM BAYRI, Slaap Lekker, 2022 [T-shirt]

SALIM BAYRI, Slaap Lekker, 2022
T-shirt, size L, print on cotton
edition unknown
published by the artist
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam

For years artists lived and worked in an old school building in Van Schendelstraat, Groningen, Netherlands. It has been sold to make place for apartments. The artists involved in the Slaap Lekker Studio came together for the last time on 19th of March 2022 having a Good Bye party. Salim Bayri produced a stack of T-shirts printed with pictures from previous parties.