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VOEBE DE GRUYTER, Temperatures, 1996 [invitation card, inlay]

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VOEBE DE GRUYTER, Temperatures, 1996
9,8 x 14,6 cm, invitation card with inlay (29,9 x 21,1 cm)
2 parts, screen prints, folded as issued
published by De Kunstbank VzW, Louvain, Belgium
mint
€ 35,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.VdG 892-pr

‘From an encounter between Voebe de Gruyter and Herman Labro [founder of Galerie Eve’n and Yet] arises a collaboration which, in 1996, results in De Gruyter’s second solo exhibition, Winterbeelden, this time in Louvain. Winterbeelden ultimately turns out not to be a true solo: curator Labro has one more ace up his sleeve, the Swiss photographer Peter Blatt and Lizz Kampe are also invited. However, there is no trace of De Gruyter’s co-exhibitors before or during the exhibition.

The 2020 encounter does not lead to a new joint project: De Gruyter declines. This happens against the backdrop of a relationship that becomes strained when, in 2015, De Gruyter discovers that the MOEV collective consists of no one other than Labro himself.’ Ref. “How It Functions – an introduction”, Rudi Salomon, May 2025

VOEBE DE GRUYTER, zonder titel, 1999 [photograph with street text]

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VOEBE DE GRUYTER, zonder titel, 1999
70 x 50 cm
photo print
numbered, signed
edition 10
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions 1999
€ 700,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.VdG 000

This print shows a (illegally) painted text on a parking space in front of Galerie van Gelder being part of Voebe de Gruyter’s first solo exhibition in 1999. The text reads:
‘An elderly man with dangerously high blood pressure is sitting in a dirty old Mercedes diesel, the engine running, eating an orange. The engine is running very irregularly.’

VOEBE DE GRUYTER, The Cable Theory, 2004 [artist’s book – text by 3rd person]

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VOEBE DE GRUYTER, The Cable Theory, 2004
29,7 x 21 cm
SC, 24 pp., sewn, English text by Kees van Gelder
edition 700
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 20,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.VdG 000

This publication is about offices seen via the snare theory above tables (through image receivers like computers) and below office tables via ultra sub-atomic energy exchange via cables lying on floors. It was issued on behalf of Voebe de Gruyter’s installation “The Cable Theory” in group exhibition “Play Pen” at The Drawing Center in New York in June and July 2004.

KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Horizontal-Diagonal-Vertical, 1993 [graphite drawing]

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KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Horizontal-Diagonal-Vertical, 1993
32,7 x 38,7 cm
lead pencil fillings, 0.7 mm (H)
edition 40, here nr. 3/40
signed, numbered, dated
verso machine typed text
published by the artist
inv.KG 000

In 1987 Kristjan Gudmundsson started to make use of graphite on paper without using graphite as a traditional technique to draw with. In stead he merely combined graphite and paper as an assemblage, i.e. a solid block of graphite together with a paper roll. In ‘Horizontal-Diagonal-Vertical’, its use has been applied as a collage showing three formal compositions. KvG

KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, 200 pages on Barnett Newman, 2001 [artist’s book, signed]

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KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, 200 pages on Barnett Newman, 2001
24,5 x 27,2 x 3 cm
SC, 200 pp., MC paper
signed, numbered
edition 100
mint
very rare
published by Silverpress, Reykjavik, Iceland
inv.KG 893-pr
€ 920,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail

This book has sculptural characteristics, due to its concept and heavy weight. The 200 pages of the book correspond to the total surface of Barnett Newman’s painting ‘Who is Afraid of Yellow, Red and Blue I’ (1966), oil paint on canvas measuring 190 x 122 cm. It includes the exact ratio of the three colors of the painting. When you hold this book in your hands, you have the entire surface of the canvas in your hands.
A copy is in the collection of Stedelijk mseum, Amsterdam.

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