PETER VAN DE KLASHORST, This show is not against art, 1987
29,7 x 21 cm
Dutch text on paper, flyer, top corners are punched
published by Galerie Hans Gieles, 1987 (May)
inv.PKlas 294-pr
Peter van de Klashorst the Enfant terrible in the Dutch art scene of the eighties was one of the few artists that shared his thoughts with the public by means of a statement. Here Peter van de Klashorst (a name he later shortened into Peter Klashorst) comments on an exhibition at Galerie Hans Gieles: This show is not against art; rather I am interested in regressing the zone beween art and non-art, the zone in which non-art seems to beg to become art and art seems to slum in non-art. In this zone, art seems eternally young forever at a frish [sic] start. It is really a zone of fantasy – which is exactly what Panofsky thought Dürer’s ornamental decorations fort the Gebetbuch finally amounted to: a fantasy of art as a zone of totally free activity, that is, activity unconditioned by anything but its own impulses.
This text on paper hung in his solo exhibition at Galerie Hans Gieles, hence the pin holes.
JCJ VANDERHEYDEN, T.V.-checkerboard, 1992
17,7 x 24 cm
analogue black and white photo
signed, numbered, dated
edition 3
pristine
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam
€ 1.200,-
GERHARD RICHTER, Wald, 2008 [artist’s book]
24,6 x 17 x 3,4 cm
offset, German language, 396 pp., ill., 1.3 kilograms
HC with dust jacket
edition 2000
published by Walter Koenig Buchhandlung, Cologne, Germany mint
€ 520,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.GRich 714_979
Gerhard Richter’s artist’s book Wald assembles 286 photographs that he has taken since 2005 in a forest Hahnwald close to Cologne. These photographs focus on fallen trees and branches lying on the woodland’s ground, i.e. photos on vertical tree trunks and horizontally piled logs or diagonally broken branches.
Opposite to the typology of the photographs, Gerhard Richter used a text taken from Waldung – Magazin für Wald, Wandern, Wissen, No. 1/2006, a German magazine about forestry. The text is composed of computer generated ad randomness, without syntax or linguistic logic.
Gerhard Richter removed proper nouns and passages. The resulting and abstracted text is still recognizable as a text about forests in terms of vocabulary. He divided the type area into seven horizontal strips, which he arranged according to a strict concept, but subverted it through individual interventions. The 106 differently composed pages continuously filled with text, only to shrink again after the only fully occupied page in the middle.
It is a fading in and out of type images. Richter roughly sorted the photographs into groups:
– delicate branches
– horizontally lying trunks
– diagonally or vertically growing trees.
History of prices:
LLU Buch Service/Lars Lutzer Antiquariat, Wahlstedt, Germany April 2025 € 1.190,-
Antiquariat im Baldreit, Baden-Baden, Germany April € 785,-
Booklooker, Greiz, Germany April 2025 € 340,- (website: ‘slight signs of wear’)
London Lane Company, London UK October 2024 € 787,-
Dividing Line Books, Ridgewood NY, USA October 2024 € 282,-
Amazon, December 2020 US$ 450.-
www.store.bookdummypress.com, May 2019 US$ 300.-
Amazon, May 2019 US$ 450.-
Amazon, July 2016 between US$ 430.- and US$ 605.-
Edizioni Geiger Books & Tam tam, 1977
29,7 x 21 cm
invitation, printed text on paper
published by Other Books and So / Ulises Carríon, Amsterdam
rare
inv.ObandS 000
Jonathan Books, New York, USA February 2026 US$ 250.-
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam July 2016 € 140,-
TARYN SIMON, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2016
34,3 x 26,5 x 2,1 cm
1.8 kilograms
catalogue – artist book
condition: pristine signed, dated for the occasion of her exhibition in Gagosian Gallery, New York
€ 1.200,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.TSim 000-pr
This book is half catalogue (authors write inside the book) and half artist’s book (the artist uses the book form as a means of expression).
At signings of political accords, contracts, treaties, and decrees powerful men flank floral centerpieces curated to convey the importance of the signatories and represented institutions, apparently. Taryn Simon dryly described each event and photographed the flower arrangements from archival images; she studied and collected these flowers. Then dried and pressed these as herbarium specimens. This sumptuous and yet visual book bears witness to an elaborate and intriguing relation between theatrical singings of politicians and the showing off of flower arrangements.
History of price:
AB Books, Ferndale (NY), USA US$ 1,350.58 August 2021 (unsigned)
Photobooknut Books, Jackson Heights (NY), USA US$ 499.95 August 2021 (unsigned)
KRIS VAN DESSEL, Approaches, 2015-2016
5,3 x 8,4 cm
USB stick
numbered, monograph signed
certificate card, size:5,5 x 8,5 cm
edition 30
€ 300,- plus Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.KvDe 000
“Approaches” is an interpretation of 115 art works that are part of the private collection of Kris van Dessel. From each work he took the most dominant colour and turned that into a plain monochrome surface that may be printed by the owner of the USB stick on standardized sheets of paper varying from size A4 to A0. There is no manual for the printing process. The artist gives the owner the freedom to have the prints machine folded into an A4 size, making it possible to store all prints in the cardboard box that comes with the edition.
LILY VAN DER STOKKER, Friends my closest ones (4-12 in total), 2016
44 x 44 cm
digital print, unframed
signed, dated, numbered
edition 3 + 1 AP (56 x 56 cm)
€ 950,- ask for details
OLA VASILJEVA (and Zelda Ivkovic), Counting Steps Edition, 2016
59,4 x 42 cm
silkscreen, pencil drawing, collage on paper
stamped and numbered by the artist
edition 10 + 5 AP (here number 10/10)
inv.OVas 812
In 2008 Ola Vasiljeva founded OAOA / The Oceans Academy of Arts, a magazine and poster format as an experimental platform that plays with ideas of experimental systems of looking and reading. The would-be institution presents itself as real and plays with its own illusive image as a stage for the artist’s reflections. The magazine OAOA aims to de-condition and to un-learn in relation to the critique of reason and common logics. The result is a visual input of no-sense, fragmentation, de-funtion and a-chronology. In this sense Counting Steps Edition may be understood and read.
CUT magazine about art, issue #15, January 2016
29,7 x 21 cm, 12 pp.
digital printed magazine
edition 60, of which 35 with multiple of Takako Saito: hand painted text on hand colored rice paper, text on card, in tipped in cellophane envelope
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam.
‘CUT magazine about art appears irregularly however often’ and is published by Galerie van Gelder. The magazine is printed in full colour.
Issue #15 opens with a report of a performance by Takako Saito written by Evert Schoorl – together with his partner Mieke Schoorl enthusiastic collector and economist and emeritus Director of graduate studies, Groningen University – followed by pages of a wall installation ‘You and me – Sky wall’.
Gerhard Richter Style Tote Bags, 2015
each ca 65 x 25 x 8 cm
print on polyester bags: “Abstract Painting” I, V and IV
produced by RedBubble, San Francisco, USA
mint
inv.GRich 000-pr
RedBubble Pty Ltd (a proprietary limited company abbreviated as ‘Pty Ltd’ is an Australian business structure) advertises in 2015 as follows: ‘Gerhard Richter Style is also available as Throw Pillows, Drawstring Bags, Art Prints, Canvas Prints, and Posters’. Here three tote bags inspired by abstract paintings of Gerhard Richter directly referring to subsequently “Abstracts Bild I”, “Abstracts Bild V” and “Abstracts Bild IV” [sic].
For some reason in 2018 these Style Tote Bags 2015 are not offered anymore by RedBubble Pty Ltd. In stead a company called Society6.com and FineArtAmerica.com have started to sell similar products.
In 2019 FineArtAmerica.com offers on its side only four products that are made with the consent of Gerhard Richter. Shown are two ‘Throw Pillows’ and two ‘Tote bags’ with reproduced details of two paintings.
RedBuble Pty Ltd sells not only in-the-style-of, but also merchandised Gerhard Richter products. See more at RedBubble Gerhard Richter products.
