MARINA ABRAMOVIC & ULAY, China Ring, 1987 [exhibition card]

MARINA ABRAMOVIC & ULAY, China Ring, 1987
16,6 x 11,1 cm
exhibition card
mint
extremely rare
published by Michael Klein, Inc., Amsterdam
€ 300,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MAbr 807-08-pr

This exhibition is neither listed on the Ulay Foundation’s biography website, nor mentioned in the CV’s of Marina Abramovic. For a very short period Michael Klein Inc. represented Abramovic / Ulay in 1987 in which year the artist’s couple had a one time exhibition at Michel Klein Gallery in New York.

KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Bien i Koldum Ofni, 1986 [catalogue Dieter Roth Verlag]

KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Bien i Koldum Ofni, 1986
29,9 x 10,6 cm
SC, stapled, 12 pp. incl. couver
splendid, slightly aged
rare
published by Dieter Roth Verlag, Reykjavik, Iceland
€ 285,- + € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.KG 789-pr

“Bien i Koldum Ofni” (trans. ‘Bone in a Cold Oven’) is a series of oblong shaped catalogues published by Roth Verlag. Catalogues of various (Icelandic) artists have been issued with works by Jón Gunnar Arnason, Rúri, Björn Roth and others.

History of price:
Derringer Books, Avon, USA July 2024 US$ 394.-

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, Samo, 1981 [invitation card]

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, Samo, 1981
10,9 x 16,1 cm
invitation card
mint
extremely rare in this pristine condition
published by Galleria d’Arte Emilio Mazzali, Modena, Italy
inv.JMBa 000
p.o.r.

This card announces Jean-Michael Basquiat’s first exhibition at Galleria d’Arte in Modena. A few months earlier, Italian gallerist Emilio Mazzoli had noticed Basquiat’s work in a collective exhibition “New York / New Wave” curated by Diego Cortez at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Mazzoli managed to find a studio and made materials available to Basquiat to paint, so that he could create new works. Later on at the beginning of the summer of 1982, Basquiat returned to Modena at the invitation of Mazzoli to mount his first European exhibition under his real name.

In the seventies, a graffiti tag coined by Basquiat and his collaborator Al Diaz, SAMO — pronounced ‘same-oh’ — started off as a private joke and went on to become an important symbol in Basquiat’s later work, seen in the streets of New York in the seventies. It stands for ‘Same Old Shit’.

HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, a.o. Galerie Balderich poster, 1971

HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, a.o.
Galerie Balderich poster, 1971
49 x 35 cm
offset, edition unknown
rare
very good condition
published by Galerie Balderich, München-Gladbach, Germany
€ 225,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.HF 000-pr

Hreinn Fridfinnsson showed works in Galerie Balderich together with close friends/colleagues Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Kristjan Gudmundsson, Douwe Jan Bakker, Pieter Holstein and Thordur Ben Sveinsson. This poster is proof of the first group exhibition he had, after he had a solo show in Galerie Fignal in Haarlem, a gallery he founded himself in his home. Later on he moved to Amsterdam, including his home gallery meant for his closest friends to show some art works mainly in a corridor of his living room. KvG

 

Added information:


Exhibition in Gallery Fignal of SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Poems, 1971.