MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Uitnodiging!, 1993 [handkerchief]

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Uitnodiging!, 1993
19,5 x 16 cm
linen handkerchief, woven, embroidery, plastic bag
edition 26 + 1 AP
unique embroidered numbering
mint
published by Associated Publishers, Amsterdam

Marijke van Warmerdam made her first multiple in collaboration with curator Moritz Küng and graphic designers Mevis & Van Deursen when she exhibited for the first time in Galerie van Gelder & AP / Associated Publishers. Moritz Küng designed a wooden wall embracing a gallery wall, Mevis & Van Deursen came with an announcement poster ‘Uitnodiging!’ showing a crying black girl that could be understood as one that is either crying or laughing, or both perhaps. For the exhibition itself another poster was designed depicting a girl wearing sun glasses. Marijke van Warmerdam showed a moving (with computer sensor steered) mannequin and dressed in a robe showing an Arcadia landscape. The latter is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.


MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Untitled, 1993

 


MEVIS & VAN DEURSEN, poster ‘Uitnodiging! 1993, used for announcement outdoors


MORITZ KÜNG, Untitled [wall], 1993

EDWARD RUSCHA, invite New Paintings, 1973 [exhibition card]

EDWARD RUSCHA, invite New Paintings, 1973
10,1 x 15,8 cm
postal stamp
published by Nigel Greenwood, Inc Ltd, London, UK
condition: very good
€ 240,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.ERus 410-pr
 
This invitation card depicts a business card of Edward Ruscha, with his name written in a phonetic pronunciation and the designation “Young Artist.” This card was posted in April 1973 and is addressed to Joe Tilson (1928 – 2023), a printmaker and sculptor in the British Pop art.

GERHARD RICHTER, Line Color Rainbow Mini Skirt, 2023 [skirt]

GERHARD RICHTER, Line Color Rainbow Mini Skirt, 2023
size M
fabric, 88% polyester, 12% elastane
Order-on-demand production through RedBubble, Melbourne, Australia
‘Designed and sold by Tabatha Anderson’, Manchester, USA
inv.GRich 000

Here the publisher is both dress designer and seller with the help of RedBubble Inc., a company that specializes in Order-on-demand. The print on the fabric is taken from the couver of a catalogue.
One may wonder whether this production – with the artist’s name ostentatious reproduced on the fabric – is made with the consent of Gerhard Richter. Yet, The Archive is Limited brings also unsigned works together, that have been produced during the artist’s lifetime. As such this skirt edition is archived as an authentic work. We consider it as being indirectly approved by or made with the consent of the artist, since apparently no legal forces prevented to have the offered item for sale. One may also look at it as an abuse of Gerhard Richter’s work and name or as a piracy’s action to reproduce the couver of a catalogue showing the name of its publisher Hatje Cantz.
In any case, this is clearly a matter of Product art, no doubt about that. KvG

Note.
On 19th of December 2023 this item was not for sale anymore. Between the 11th and 19th of December suddenly this skirt disappeared from the website of RedBubble, for unknown reasons.

GERHARD RICHTER, Abstract Cover Mini Skirt, 2023 [skirt ]

GERHARD RICHTER, Abstract Cover Mini Skirt, 2023
fabric, 88% polyester, 12% elastane
size M
mint
Order-on-Demand production through RedBubble, Melbourne, Australia
‘Designed and sold by BlankaBlank’, Wiesbaden, Germany
inv.GRich 000

Here the publisher is both dress designer and seller with the help of RedBubble Inc. that specializes in Order-on-Demand.
One may wonder whether this production – with the artist’s name ostentatious reproduced on the fabric – is made with the consent of Gerhard Richter. Yet, The Archive is Limited brings also unsigned works together, that have been produced during the artist’s lifetime. As such this skirt edition has been archived as an authentic work. We consider it as being indirectly approved by or made with the consent of the artist, since apparently no legal forces prevented to have the offered items for sale. In any case, this is clearly a matter of Product art, no doubt about that. KvG

GERHARD RICHTER, Gerhard Richter, 2023 [signed book, slipcase]

GERHARD RICHTER, Gerhard Richter, 2023
30 x 24 x 3 cm
HC, 192 pp., slipcase
signed as issued; limited edition
mint
published by David Zwirner Books, New York, USA
€ 475,- + € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.GRich 000-000

The catalogue shows colour plates and installation views. It concerns a selection of the artist’s final works on canvas—made just before he announced his retirement from oil painting in 2017. Also an expansive suite of new drawings made with ink, graphite, and colored pencil on paper, is depicted in the book with a glossy dust couver.

LAWRENCE WEINER, Some Things Brought To Hand, 1995 [XL poster]

LAWRENCE WEINER, Some Things Brought To Hand, 1995
100 x 70 cm
offset poster,4x folded as issued (25 x 35 cm)
condition: good, no tears
published by Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
€ 175,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.LW 547-pr

This publication contains a complete list of editions and multiples anno 1995, assembled and curated by Caroline Nathusius and Vivian Bobka.

History of prices:
Antiquariat Querido, Düsseldorf, Germany December 2023 € 150,-
Derringer Books, Avon CT, USA November 2023 US$ 300.-
Grace Rush Books, Vancouver, Canada November 2023 US$ 250.-

LAWRENCE WEINER, Relative to Hanging, 1975 [artist’s book]

LAWRENCE WEINER, Relative to Hanging, 1975
16,9 x 11,8 cm
SC, 24 pp.
edition 500
published by Edition After Hand, Ringkøping, Denmark
splendid condition
€ 185,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.LW 000-pr

This artist’s book defines five ways of handling the national flag of Denmark:
1. having stood for (as)
2. having stood in (as)
3. having stood up (as)
4. having stood over (as)
5. having stood down (as)
and hence creating various images of how one may use a flag e.g., in a patriotic sense, a colonial way, a representing manner, and so on.