Space 251 Nord – Investigations, 1985 [Place Saint Lambert, Liège, Belgium]
40,4 x 28 cm
oversized catalogue, ca 50 black & white ill.,
good condition with slightly discoloring on cover, book block separated from spine due to aged Lümbeck binding
€ 165,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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This catalogue is featuring 38 artists participating in Investigations at Space 251 Nord in Liège: Jacques Charlier, Leo Copers, Michel François, Anne Veronica Janssens, Bernd Lohaus, Luigi Ontani, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Guillaume Bijl, Klaus Jung, Michel Moffarts, Panamarenko, Dan Van Severen, a.o.
Also poster available.
VIKTOR & ROLF, “Monsieur”, 2004
42 x 29,5 cm
tabloid newspaper, offset, 8pp.
half-year publication: Spring/Summer announcing flower prints on fabrics by Lily van der Stokker very rare
condition: used
published by Viktor & Rolf, Amsterdam
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MARIANNE VIERØ, Oh John, 2016
ca 30 x 21,3 cm
SC, stapled, hand numbered, semi-translucent envelope
edition 100, number 47/100, here also signed
published by Officin, Copenhagen, Denmark
Coll. K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
In order to escape the usual logics Marianne Vierø experiments with abstract images and language that create a picture in the head. In this way a discharge takes place and the abstract images are suddenly differently understood. A process that is always fun to see where it may lead to. It is no wonder that Marianne Vierø at an early stage participated in OAOA / The Oceans Academy of Arts, a magazine for playing with ideas of experimental systems of looking and reading. The pseudo institution presents itself as real and plays with its own illusive image as a stage for the artists reflections. The magazine aims to de-condition and un-learn in relation to the critique of reason and common logics. No-sense, fragmentation, de-funtion and a-chronology is what is looked for.
MARK DION, About Space – Souvenirs, 2014
22,5 x 31 x 3,7 cm
45 loose A4 cards in folder, black cardboard box, folded poster (42 x 59,4 cm), signed in plate by David Attenborough, black and white photo (10 x 15,2 cm) edition 80 + XX AP, here IX/XX
small tear in edge box
published with the support of Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
This box contains a series of artist drawings/statements of David Lamelas, Willem Oorebeek, Zin Taylor, Matt Mullican, Adrian Paci, a.o.
ROB SCHOLTE, De Angst!, 2004
22,3 x 22,3 cm (18,3 x 18,3)
jigsaw puzzle, glued on cardboard as issued
signed, dated
edition unknown
condition: splendid very rare
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It is not clear whether the image is a cartoon, as almost all medieval etchings show the Dutch-Belgian lion looking to the right. The lion on Rob Scholte’s puzzle looks to the left with the shield mirrored, engraved with “Erich Wichman”. The names of the towns and rivers on the map stayed readable. Is the lion’s gaze pointing back towards an opposite direction?
Erich Wichmann joined the Amsterdam city council in 1921 as co-founder with his Rapaille Party ‘Had-je-me-maar’. The puzzle is above all a tribute to contrariness in general and not so much to Wichmann’s sympathies for fascism at the end of his life. He was a Dutch artist, eccentric, anti-parliamentary troublemaker and anti-bourgeois writer. His paintings (on display in, among others, the Centraal Museum, Utrecht) are not without merit as such.
“Begin jaren 90 heeft Scholte De Angst! als jigsaw-puzzle doen uitgeven, waarvan dit een exemplaar is. De oplage is onbekend, maar de uitgave is uiterst zeldzaam. Door Scholte achterop getiteld, gedateerd (2004) en gesigneerd. Ref. De Angst ! text in Dutch; Rob Scholte Museum, Den Helder, Netherlands
GERHARD RICHTER, November, 2013
31,5 x 21,8 cm
offset
edition 800
signed, numbered
published by Heni Publishing, London, England
pristine
sold out
Richter produced NOVEMBER, a series of 54 works in ink. These works were created using a variety of ways to manipulate the consistency of ink and its flow on highly absorbent paper. The ink permeated through the sheets creating two related images, one on the front and one on the back of each of the 27 sheets used. In some cases Richter also applied lacquer or pencil.
Richter had a complete set of facsimiles made, so both sides of the 27 sheets could be viewed at the same time. However, the sequence of mirrored pairs of images is disrupted, as some of the images have been rotated by 180 degrees. The book displays the images of the pairs, one on the front and one on the back of each page and ends with an overview of all 54 works.
In the artist’s book November Richter not only made use of sheets with a mirror image of the motif on the reverse; in some cases the ink that had soaked through layers of sheets created what looked like visual echoes. His manipulation of the given sequence was distinctly restrained: for instance, November 2nd (recto) is placed upside down, disturbing the regularity of the mirror-image idea. In addition to this, the obscuring over-painting of this same sheet and of November 3rd draws attention to the differences between the two, rather than to any repetition. In the case of the pairs of sheets dated November 4th and 5th, the verso images are again rotated by 180º; it also appears that the sequence of front and back has been reversed in the case of the latter. The given reflections are thus just the point of departure for an interlocking web of playfulness, which in turn creates simultaneity from a temporal and material sequence. In the same way that original and facsimile per sheet and page are barely distinguishable, any distinctive qualities in the different ink markings are all but impossible to discern – with the initial disposition on one side and copy, duplicate and replica on the other. It has become a work in itself.
History of prices:
Antiquariat an der Uni Muenchen, Munich, Germany € 1.500,- January 2021
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam € 950,- December 2020
Tate Museum, London, England € 470,- / GBP 400.- April 2013
New Art Editions € 800,- March 2017
ED RUSCHA, Make New History, 2009
6,5 x 19,5 x 13 cm
linen bound note book, text in stamp printing on book block, 624 blank pages signed in print on endpaper of book
original cardboard box, incl.loose paper with colophon and statement of the artist, dated: ‘Ed Ruscha November 10, 2009’
edition 1000
published by MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
mint extremely rare in this mint condition
€ 3.450,- plus € 38,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles this edition of 1000 copies was produced for distribution to members and attendees of its anniversary gala and not sold to the public. The pages of the book are blank, Edward Ruscha’s intention being for the owner to write his or her own history on the pages.
Due to its weight and thickness this artist’s book may also be considered as a real object or conceptual sculpture.
History of prices:
EHC Fine Art, USA US$ 4,500.- April 2023
1st Dibs, New York, USA € 4.736,- 24 September 2022
Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Australia US$ 1.513 – € 1.561,- &#nb; 24 September 2022
Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Australia AU$ 2.250 – € 1.468,- &#nb; 25 February 2021
LA Modern Auctions, Los Angeles, USA US$ 2,000.- &#nb; 18 October 2020
EHC Auctions + Artsy, Lot 5, highest bid US$ 1,900.- estimate US$ 2.500-US$ 3.000 &#nb; 31 March 2020
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam € 1.950,- &#nb; 28 March 2020
Rago Arts & Auction Center, Lambertville, NJ, USA & nbsp; – Lot 733, $ 1,063 &#nb; 16 November 2013
RAÚL MARROQUIN, announcement “Telephone Piece”, 1983
42,2 x 30,2 cm
offset print,
TBA / Time Based Arts, November bulletin: Sound Works
twice folded as mailed
published by Vereniging van Videokunstenaars, Amsterdam
excellent condition, although very slightly aged paper
€ 190,- + € 15,- registered mail
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This poster announces presentations by Relly Tarlo / Jacoba Bedaux, Raúl Marroquin and Daniel Brun.
MIKE PARR, Performance – action, 1983
42,2 x 30,2 cm
offset print, September bulletin
published by Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
excellent condition
rare
€ 180,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered mail
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This poster announces video and film presentations about videos/films from Australia. Other presentations by Mike Parr (performance-action), Paul Müller, Arthur and Corine Cantrill, Juan Davila & Martin Munz, Dale Frank, Randall & Bendinelli and Philip Brophy & Maria Kozic
JCJ VANDERHEYDEN, Atelier Concreet, 1992
50,7 x 40,5 cm
with painted wooden object mounted on black and white photograph
artist’s box frame
edition 5
published by the artist mint
very rare
€ 4.500,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail – private collection
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On behalf of his solo exhibition “Simultaneous” in Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam JCJ Vanderheyden made this special photo-with-painting edition. On top of a studio photo Vanderheyden mounted a tiny painting on wood re-staging the realistic situation in his studio in the right proportion, although factually on a much smaller scale. A copy of this very small edition is also in the collection of Centraal Museum in Utrecht.
