AKI-Fluxfest, 1981
49.4 x 33.5 cm
screen print on paper, poster folded as mailed (17 x 24.8 cm)
condition: reasonable, tear lower left, missing chip of paper
rare
inv.Fluxus 687
Peter van Beveren and Harry Ruhé invited Fluxus artists to participate in a Fluxus Festival at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede in The Netherlands. Participating artists were Eric Andersen, Giuseppe Chiari, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Bob Lens, Wim T. Schippers, Takako Saito, Ludwig Gosewitz, Milan Knizak and Mischa Mengelberg. The director Sipke Huismans of the AKI gave carte blanche to the two curators. Van Beveren and Ruhé managed nine artists to come over for five days to this Fluxus event, namely Eric Andersen, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Bob Lens, Wim T. Schippers, Takako Saito, Ludwig Gosewitz, Milan Knizak and Mischa Mengelberg. Every artist got a fee of Dfl. 3.000,- (“It is about time that artists should be properly paid…’). In the end the AKI almost went bankrupt caused by the high bills of hotel, dinner and free booze, trip and traveling costs.
TAKAKO SAITO, Blaues-Regenbogen-Wein-Schachspiel / Eß-Schachspiel, 1982-1999
21.5 x 15 x 0.5 cm
3 parts, offset, two folded play fields in folio
signed, dated in print also hand signed and dated on cover “29.05.1999 Takako Düsseldorf”
edition 500
published by Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany
condition: splendid
inv.TSait 685-pr
TAKAKO SAITO, Blaues-Regenbogen-Wein-Schachspiel, 1982
21.5 x 15 x 0.5 cm
3 parts, offset, two folded play fields in folio
signed and dated in print
edition 500
published by Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany
condition folio: aged, insight parts: very good
inv.TSait 686-pr
TAKAKO SAITO, A part of Fluxus, 1992
2 x 2.3 x 2.3 cm
plastic box, human hair, glue, paper collet with ink stamped text
edition unknown
signed, dated
pristine condition
inv.TSait 681
LILY VAN DER STOKKER, Poor museum has no money, 2018
14 x 14 cm
sticker, comes with Cut magazine issue #19
edition 80
published by CUT magazine about art / Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.LvdS 000
In 2018, Lily van der Stokker was invited to create a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In such a case it is not unusual to agree that the museum will purchase a work, as an expression of gratitude or support towards the artist. It soon turned out that there was no budget to purchase a work of art by this Dutch artist.
Lily was allowed to come up with proposals for the teaser campaign. She suggested making a sticker with the text ‘Poor museum has no money’. That plan was rejected because there could be a public fuss about money spent by the museum. Van der Stokker then suggested having wrapping paper printed with the text ‘Blockbuster or avantgarde?’. That was also seen as overly critical commentary on the museum.
This sticker comes together with a piece of wrapping paper called “Blockbuster or Avant garde?” as an insert in Cut magazine about art issue #19 – November 2018. Published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, Netherlands. These items accompany an open letter to Dutch journalist Lucette Terborg by Lily that starts as follows: ‘I’m writing to you in response to your review that was published on 13/14 November in the NRC about my retrospective exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum. It was the second time I’d done something like it (the first being in ‘97)….’
GERWALD ROCKENSCHAUB, Paintings 1984-86, 1988
catalogue with 13 colour reproductions + CV
offset print, plastic pin binder
13,4 x 13,5 cm
published by Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
used, even as such extremely rare
sold
This booklet is definitely an artist’s edition. At least, this catalogue has that feel with its series of solely graphical images. An ultra short CV at the end of the booklet is a kind of spoiler. Gallerist Anders Tornberg worked closely together with artists like Gerald Rockenschaub. Hence Rockenschaub made the design for this publication and agreed on having a CV included.
Gerwald Rockenschaub is painter, techno artist and DJ. He is known for his geometrical and constructed oil paintings and sculptures of the early 1980s, being part of the Neo-Geo movement. In 1985 he made a similar painting (30 x 20 cm) with a white on black Neo-Geo lettering of which the first letter of his initials is mirrored.
LILY VAN DER STOKKER, Decent, tidy, 2014
37.2 x 48.4 x 17.2 cm
acrylic paint, wood, closet paper roll
series of 4 unique pieces
signed, dated with number 3
p.o.r.
This edition is a series of unique pieces. The flowers have different colours from piece to piece.
CUT magazine about art, issue #19, November 2018
21 x 29,7 cm
comes with sticker and wrapping paper of Lily van der Stokker
for Special Cut Subscribers signed edition of 35 by Wjm Kok
including inserts by Lily van der Stokker
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
edition 80
inv. CUT 000
GERHARD RICHTER, Abstract Painting 825-II, 69 Details, 1996
19,2 x 12,3 x 1,5 cm (18,4 x 12,3)
artist’s book, English, HC, including slipcase
signed with fountain pen, stamp numbered, here number 771
edition 1000, of which 100 signed copies issued in English as Special Edition
published by Insel Verlag / for this edition Scalo, Zurich-Berlin-New York, USA
mint
€ 780,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.GRich 000-pr
This artist’s book is part of a Special Edition:
850 copies in German; 50 copies in French; 100 copies in English, signed and ink stamp numbered on the last page, subtitled on the fifth page: ‘Für Elise’;
(32 copies, signed in ink, subtitled on the fifth page: ‘Für Elise’, marked in felt-tip pen on the last page: h.c.)
inv.GRich 667
Regular edition: 4,090 copies in German, 5,000 copies in English
Afterword in English by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
History of prices:
Antiquariat/Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany € 680,- 16 April 2020 (‘Für Elise’)
Buchhandlung Klaus Bittner, Cologne, Germany € 498,- 16 April 2020
Antiquariat Udo Schwörer, Pforzheim, Germany € 450,- 16 April 2020
Dashwood Books, New York, USA US$ 400,- 16 April 2020
eBay-zwilling90, Morfelden-Waldorf, Germany € 86,05 February 2007
eBay-marc79, Hannover, Germany € 91,37 August 2005
eBay-marc79, Hannover, Germany US$ 152.51 3 February 2004
FANDANGOS – nrs. 8.9.10.11 superb issue!, 1978
30 x 21 cm
stickers, ink stamps signed by Raúl Marroquin as Superbman
edition 500
published by Raúl Marroquin, Maastricht, Netherlands
excellent condition, very slightly aged
€ 225,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.RMar 969
This 4-in-1 Fandangos magazine has been the last issue of a series of 11 publications.
Numerous contributions by Raúl Marroquin including ‘From Video to T.V where he writes that ‘It is about time that Video Art becomes Television Art’ and Marroquin’s Vampires project, Paul Carter, Julia Hayward, Jana Haimsohn, Darcy Lange, Antonio Caro, Baladi, Angelika Schmid, Jonier Marin, Montadas, C. Garcia, Tobe Carey, Klaus Staek (2 pages), Jan Patric, David Zacki, J. Charlin, Eduard Bal, Sanja Ivekovic, Michel Cardena’s Live Video Performance (7 pages, includes Cardena rubberstamp), Tony Morgan’s live video performance at de appel, Marjo Schumans, Ben D’Armagnac, Elsa Stansfield, Madieon Hooykaas, Jantje Tetelepta, I. Akel, Joshua Jansen, Relly Carlo, Nan Hoover photographs from video by Koos Bay, Tony Pegotti (5 pages), Michael Krzyzanowski (2 pages), Ger van Dijk, John Liggins, Bob Takes/Michiel Romeyn, ‘Languages my friends speak’ by Ulises Carrion, Jorgos Chronis, Michael Gibbs, Marten Hendriks/ Ad Gerritsen, Marianne Heske, Kirsten Bates and Taki Bluesinger ‘Plumbing Repairs simplified’ (4 pages), Jenna Van Eegan, Richard Hefti, Yves de Smet, Nikolaus Urban, Jan Hendrix (3 pages), Reindeer Werk, Martha Hawley, Charlemagne Palestine, Peter Hutchinson, Phillip Pearlman, Anne Tardos, Roger Cutforth, Willoughby Sharp’s collage narratives ‘The Nation, the Region, Ideas and trends.’ (10 pages), R Heyman, Douglas Davis, Jean Depuy, Scott Burton, Larry Miller, Jacki Apple, Laurie Anderson, Jeffrey Deitch, Dalibor Martinis, Marcia Resnick, Anna Banana (3 pages), Rita Yokoi. The photographs by Geurt Van Dijk, A.Rainer and Dieter Rot, Luigi Ontani, Boltanski, Ad Gerritsen, A.Messager, Jurgen Klauke, B.Sleeuwenhoek all include the artists’ names in rubber stamps next to the images. Also ink stamps of various emblemata.
Includes articles on “Superbman”, the ‘nation’s number one citizen’, a character created by Raul Marroquin who, the article describes, was appointed as “Friendship Ambassador to Europe”. The article is uniquely handsigned by Raul Marroquin as Superbman: “With love Fandangos – Superbman” in red marker pen. Includes another article on Superbman’s nemesis a sado-masochistic underworld-type character called ‘Nikos Nukos the Worst’.
Other articles include “A lecture on video in museum” by Drs I.L Szenassy (5 pages in Dutch) and ‘Visual poetry as a form of marginal art’ by Peter Frank. Interviews with Ulises Carrion (in English) Maarten van Regteren Altena (in English), Robert Filliou (in Spanish), ‘Yogo’ the false-name of a Dutch drug trafficker (in English), Costa Gravas (in French), Art Taylor (in English), and Mohammed Ali (In English). Articles and texts vary between in English, Dutch, Spanish and French.
History of prices:
UnOriginals, UK April 2024 GBP 245.-
William Allen Word & Image, London 26 December 2020 GBP 125.-
