MIEKO SHIOMI, Fluxus Balance, 1993 [signed edition, number XXI/C]

MIEKO SHIOMI, Fluxus Balance, 1993
32,8 x 24 cm
blind stamped portfolio, envelope with 68 cards, envelope with string and weights, sticker, A4 card, colophon with list of participants on A4
signed, Roman numbered, here nr XXI/C
portfolio in splendid condition, content: mint
published by the artist
€ 265,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MShi 25-pr

This multiple is part of a signed and numbered edition of 100.

MARINA ABRAMOVIC / ULAY, Nightsea crossing, 1984 [exhibition card]

MARINA ABRAMOVIC / ULAY, Nightsea crossing, 1984
invitation card
10,5 x 15,5 cm
mint
published by Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
€ 65,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MAbr 813-814-pr

This invitation card was issued on behalf of the exhibition “Gemeenteaankopen 1981/82” at Museum Fodor in Amsterdam. The Municipality of Amsterdam bought the performance Nightsea crossing as a ‘dream’, meaning that the documentation of this piece was part of the purchase. Today this material is part of the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Added:
4 newspaper snippets
3 photo copies newspaper snippets
1 report 13-04-1982 (private archive KvG) on ‘Films van Marina Abramovic/Ulay’
1 form (private archive KvG)
1 letter to committee members of a BKR-projectteam

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.

THICK AIR, 1983 [9 Icelandic artist’s books]

THICK AIR, 1983
cardboard box with 9 artist’s books
22 x 16 x 3 cm
edition 250 of which 100 are signed
each booklet signed, numbered, here Nr. 31/100
mint condition, apart from aged cardboard box
published by Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
€ 220,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.ThAir 02-pr

Participating artists:
Árni Ingolfsson
Da∂i Gubjornsson
Eggert Petursson
Helgi Fri∂jonsson
Ingolfur Árnasson
Ivar Valgardsson
Kristínn Har∂arson
Steingrímur Kristmundsson
Tumi Magnússon

TAKAKO SAITO, Schachspiele, Spiele und Bücher, 1989 [signed catalogue]

TAKAKO SAITO, Schachspiele, Spiele und Bücher, 1989
21 x 21 cm
catalogue, 80 pp., signed in print
also hand signed in black ink
mint
published by Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Germany
inv.TSait 800-pr

This signed catalogue looks aged and with a dent at the right lower corner. In fact, this is part of the reproduced photo on both sides of the couver. The book is in a pristine condition.

History of price:
UnoriginalSins, UK August 2024 GBP 45.- (unsigned)

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.-