SALIM BAYRI, Sad Ali, 2017 [small version]

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SALIM BAYRI, Sad Ali, 2017 [small version]
16,2 x 4,9 cm
print, lasered sky leather
signed, numbered, dated
edition 4
€ 250,-

 

Salim Bayri surrounds himself with an alter ego that he calls Sad Ali, a shortening of “sad alien”. This figure has no organs, undertakes no actions and opposite to a cartoon personality he doesn’t talk. As a kind of ambulant search machine he runs around checking out situations and things.
Salim Bayri: ‘I mostly use computer generated images, sound, footage and short actions because of their speed and fluidity.’

Salim Bayri is nominated for the Nationale Nederlanden Group Award 2018. The other nominees:
Pauline Curnier Jardin
Sam Samiee
Rafaël Rozendaal

AI WEIWEI, Study of Perspective – Tiananmen, n.d. [scarf, 2014]

AI WEIWEI, Study of Perspective (Tiananmen), n.d. [2014]
110 x 110 cm / 43 x 43 inches
silk scarf with hand-rolled edges, sleeve with punched hole
edition unknown
mint
published by Third Drawer Down, Fitzroy, Australia
€ 285,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AWei 549-pr

 

On the back of the cover the work is described as “Study of Perspective – Tiananmen, 1995-2003”. This Product art item was sold out quickly and since 2013 not available anymore on Third Drawer Down’s website.

AI WEIWEI, Sunflower Seeds [silk scarf, 2010]

AI WEIWEI, Sunflower Seeds, 2010
21,7 x 21,7 cm / unfolded 110 x 110 cm
silk scarf, original cover with punched hole
edition unknown
mint
published by Third Drawer Down, Fitzroy, Australia
€ 365,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AWei 549-pr

On the back of the envelope this work is described as “Sunflower Seeds (detail), 2010”. ‘Sunflower Seeds’ was an installation shown in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, London in 2010. It seemed to be a huge flood of sunflower seed husks, in reality it was a flat scenery of over 100 million individually porcelain replicas of the seed. Handmade in China.
This edition was not for sale on the website of Third Drawer Down or Tate Modern’s webshop before January 2013.

SOL LEWITT, Untitled, n.d. [pin, ca 1990]

SOL LEWITT, Untitled, n.d. [ca 1990]
5,4 x 5,4 cm
glossy print, badge/lapel pin
limited edition
published by Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
rare, splendid condition
inv.SLew 21
p.o.r.

This pin has the sparkling emanation of a broche and was produced for promotional reasons. It was sent to clients of the Rosa Esman Gallery in New York with the aim to draw attention to the solo exhibition of Sol Lewitt, at that time written as Sol Le Witt. The names of “Sol Le Witt” and “Rosa Esman Gallery” are printed on the reverse.
Sol LeWitt made this Wall Drawing #821 in 1982. It bears the title A Square Divided Horizontally and Vertically into Four Equal Parts, Each with a Different Direction of Alternating Parallel Bands of Lines. and became a signature motif with the pictorial power of a traffic sign.

For date reference see also: El Lissitzky, lapel pin, verso dated 1990 in print.

HESTER OERLEMANS / GEERT DE ROOIJ, Star, n.d. [1991]

HESTER OERLEMANS / GEERT DE ROOIJ, Star, n.d. [ca 1990]
ca 93 x 67 cm
various techniques on silk, paper slip with Dutch text: “Dit is de laatste zeefdruk…”
folded as issued
edition 100, here nr 55
signed, numbered
published by Oceaan, Arnhem
DIV.1-HOer 546

 

Oceaan
Het Arnhemse kunstenaarsinitiatief Oceaan startte in de zomer van 1991 de ‘Tentoonstelling per Post’. Onder het motto “Oceaan komt naar U toe!’, had Hester Oerlemans van Oceaan zeefdrukken gemaakt met vier kunstenaars: Rob Birza, Kees Goudzwaard, Annemie van Kerckhoven en Geert de Rooij. Wie deze vier kunstwerken wilde bekijken, hoefde niet naar Arnhem te gaan. Na overmaking van honderd gulden kreeg je ze thuis gestuurd, en daar kon je je eigen tentoonstelling inrichten. “Ik wilde er iets spannends van maken,” vertelde Hester Oerlemans. “Normaal ga je naar een galerie met allerlei verwachtingen, op basis van de uitnodiging, of een affiche. Wij willen die gang van zaken met dit project doorbreken, en de tentoonstelling zo verrassend mogelijk houden. Dus pas als je thuis per post de zeefdrukken hebt gekregen, weet je hoe de tentoonstelling er uit ziet.”

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Arm Nederland, 2004 [kleine versie]

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Arm Nederland, 2004
26 x 38,5 x 1,5 cm
enamel plate
signed, numbered
edition 20

De Irakoorlog was een door de Verenigde Staten en het Verenigd Koninkrijk in maart 2003 ingezette oorlog tegen en in Irak, waarbij ook andere landen binnen het Navo-bondgenootschap troepen leverden.

In 2003 The Netherlands was one of the Western countries that joined the Allied Forces called the “Coalition of the Willing” to fight against the regime of Saddam Hussein. This urged Sigurdur Gudmundsson to make a series of enamel plaques commenting the countries involved and who caused the killing of the dictator and fall of the regime.

GERHARD RICHTER, Goslar Kerze, 1988 [signed poster, text]

GERHARD RICHTER, Goslar Kerze, 1988
94 x 99 cm (89,5 x 95)
text on poster:
offset on thin paper, handmade varnished frame
signed
edition unknown (possibly ca 100 signed with text)
published by Mönchehaus-Museum für moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
pristine condition, skillfully wooden frame with multi-layered varnish
extremely rare in this condition
provenance Artax, Düsseldorf, Germany
€ 8.500,- plus courier costs