ROBERT BARRY, Art Lovers, 2006 27,6 cm x 27,6 cm
papers, 72 pages, in laminated box
numbered
edition 270 + 30 AP
published by Michèle Didier, Brussels, Belgium
not available
Art Lovers is an unbound book with plates superimposing two layers: a photographic portrait and a word outline cut into a black surface. Each portrait is covered by this black plane, turning the opening made by the word into letter shaped keyholes. The viewer can barely see the portraits and has to infer their subjects from a few sparse and vague elements. The 31 “Art Lovers” in question were photographed by the artist.
History of price:
Michèle Didier, Brussels, Belgium September 2012 € 175,-
JOHN BALDESSARI, Brain/Cloud: with Seascape and Palm Tree, 2009
74 x 58 cm edition of 145
inkjet print
signed on certificate, numbered, dated
not available anymore
John Baldessari: “I like banal images and I can’t think of anything more banal than a palm tree and an ocean.”
History of prices:
Counter Editions GBP 1,200.- September 2012
MARTIN CREED, Work No. 1273, 2011
76 x 60 cm
lithograph on 300 gsm paper
edition of 250
signed, numbered, dated
pubished by Counter Editions, London, UK
Martin Creed imposes simple rules on his creativity. He might create a painting using only paintbrushes bought in a multi-pack, or make only one mark a day with the same felt-tip pen until the whole paper surface is covered. Repetition, stacks, and intervals are familiar motifs in his work, along with ascending and descending structures. For Work No.1273, Creed has made five single brush marks using a palette derived from the Olympic colours. The marks are arranged in an ascending form that seems to represent an extended podium.
History of prices:
Counter Editions, London, UK £ 640.- September 2012
TAKAKO SAITO, Buch der Brust, 1984
14,5 x 3 x 12,5 cm
gouache pen, pencil, crayon drawings, copper and thread hinge, handmade cardboard box, cellophane, 10 pp.
edition 8
published by Noodle Edition, Dusseldorf, Germany
sold
Takako Saito shaked up notions of perception and aesthetic experience. Games of chess, playing cards, making art together, games in general were turned into a non-visual experience and activity, such as making use of smell, tactility, and aurality, with a result of breaking existing rules. She has made various kinds of books including Rhine water, sound of thrown paper cubes, and the like. In ‘Buch der Brust’ the artist challenged the traditional notion of a book by turning the pages into the shape of a women’s breast.
SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Fragment, 1969-2010
32,3 x 23,9 cm (image 9,9 cm x 10,7 cm) / 12.7 x 9.4 inches (image size is 3.9″ x 4.2″)
black and white photograph
signed, numbered
edition 70
Depicting circumstances with absurdist tweaks, his Situations as he calls them read as visual poems that explore the idiosyncrasies of human existence and tend toward the comical while retaining philosophical gravity. Gudmundsson uses himself as the subject of the Situations, but does not consider the works to be self-portraits but, rather, open-ended reflections on a more universal level.
JOHN CAGE, Where is the war?, 1985
49 x 69 cm, torn black cardboard, edition 30 + 20 AP, signed and numbered
edition A: 30 copies, numbered 1/30 – 30/30 and
edition B: 20 copies, numbered I/XX – XX/XX, as AP
published by Edition René Block, Berlin
CANDICE BREITZ, Double, 2009
Double Pizza Girl, 2009 / Double Oun, 2009 / Double Sachika, 2009 / Double Shaun, 2009 / Double Star, 2009
C-print, each 45 x 45 cm
edition 30 + 5 AP
each numbered and signed Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria
not available
In allusion to Andy Warhol’s “Double Elvis,” Candice Breitz has created photographs of the five pairs of twins who participated in her performance “New York, New York.”
Candice Breitz: “I am interested in deploying the art work as a catalyst, one which momentarily freeze-frames problematic ways of making meaning, and renders them strange. My interest lies not in censoring the desires inspired by the commodity (be that commodity a hipper-than-thou consumer trademark or a cheaply printed centrefold), but in recasting them so as to expose their logic, and, in certain cases, to push their boundaries.”
History of prices:
€ 1.200,- each
€ 4.000,- set of all 5 prints August 2012
SONG DONG, Waste Not, 2012
height: ca 5 cm
metal, 2 parts, edition 100
Barbican Gallery, London € 120,- / GBP 95.- August 2012
For his first solo exhibition in UK at Barbican Gallery, Song Dong a monumental work, Waste Not, was shown in The Curve. Comprising over 10,000 items collected by Song Dong’s mother over five decades, ranging from a section of the house to metal pots and plastic bowls to blankets, bottle caps, toothpaste tubes and toys. The installation is a tribute to his mother, as well as a meditation on family life during the Cultural Revolution.
