MAI-THU PERRET, 2010
set of 4 glasses, edition 100
Swiss Institute, New York US$ 100.- January 2011
Mai-Thu Perret’s works, in a variety of media, from ceramics and textiles to paintings, sculptures or film, have all in common a hand-made aesthetic and use the formal vocabulary of modernism. References to Russian constructivism, 19th-century Arts & Crafts Movement, early-20th-century mysticism, Minimalism, and various other modern art movements can be found all over her work. By interweaving historical movement and her own fiction, Mai-Thu Perret questions utopias and how they could be a context for the production of objects and especially works of art. Within the production of both utilitarian and decorative objects, she’s interested in the status of artworks.
JOHN CAGE, Where is the war?, 1985
49 x 69 cm, torn black cardboard, edition 30 + 20 AP, signed and numbered
edition A: 30 copies, numbered 1/30 – 30/30 and
edition B: 20 copies, numbered I/XX – XX/XX, as AP
published by Edition René Block, Berlin
CANDICE BREITZ, Double, 2009
Double Pizza Girl, 2009 / Double Oun, 2009 / Double Sachika, 2009 / Double Shaun, 2009 / Double Star, 2009
C-print, each 45 x 45 cm
edition 30 + 5 AP
each numbered and signed Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria
not available
In allusion to Andy Warhol’s “Double Elvis,” Candice Breitz has created photographs of the five pairs of twins who participated in her performance “New York, New York.”
Candice Breitz: “I am interested in deploying the art work as a catalyst, one which momentarily freeze-frames problematic ways of making meaning, and renders them strange. My interest lies not in censoring the desires inspired by the commodity (be that commodity a hipper-than-thou consumer trademark or a cheaply printed centrefold), but in recasting them so as to expose their logic, and, in certain cases, to push their boundaries.”
History of prices:
€ 1.200,- each
€ 4.000,- set of all 5 prints August 2012
EDWARD RUSCHA, Open Book with Worm Holes, 2012
43,2 x 58,4 cm
printed lithograph (7 colors) on Magnani Pescia gray paper
edition 80 + 10 AP
not available
History of prices:
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria € 1300,- August 2012
RICHARD SERRA, Afangar (SKIII), 1991
lithograph, 27,3 x 24 cm / 10.75 x 9.45 inch
numbered, signed, edition 40
Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany
not available
A sculpture called Áfangar has been installed by Richard Serra on a small island in Iceland. The Icelandic title refers to ‘Stand still’, ‘stop’, ‘stop in between’ and ‘vice versa’. The lithographs depict in the view of the artist’s outdoor sculpture.
History of prices:
Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany € 2.500,- July 2012
Circle Jerk, 16 posters, 2009
posters being part of portfolio Circle Jerk, Toronto, 2009
each 33 x 48 cm / 48 x 33 cm
16 posters, full colour offset on MC paper
hand ink stamped cardboard folder all signed, numbered
limited edition of 50 extremely rare as set
complete set € 4.800,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.Circ 213
This is one of the 16 signed and numbered posters named “Barber shop” (2009) by Glenn Ligon.
Glenn Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s with conceptually based work that investigates the social, linguistic, and political constructions of race, gender, and sexuality. Originally, the posters were clandestinely distributed on the streets. The posters found audiences by chance, provoking questions or reactions, with no didactic component to the street campaign.
LIMITED EDITION
CIRCLE JERK: 16 artists, 16 posters
As the name implies Circle Jerk is an ad hoc group of queer artists lending each other a hand. What began in 2007 with an original group of 13 artists has grown to 16 participants. Each artist has contributed a work from their current production. There is no specific curatorial premise; nonetheless the works connect with a shared attitude.Participating artists include Andy Fabo, Brendan Fernandes, Bruce LaBruce,
John Greyson, Daryl Vocat, Glenn Ligon, Stephen Andrews, Luis Jacob,
David Altmejd, Chris Curreri, John McLachlin, Micah Lexier, Peter Kingstone,
Will Munro, Ed Pien, and David Grenier.The posters were clandestinely distributed on the streets to coincide with
Art Toronto 2009 in late October. There is no didactic component to the street campaign. The posters found an audience by chance, provoking questions or reactions. A signed, limited edition was a fundraiser for Art Metropole. The set is packaged in a custom-made portfolio carrying case printed with artists’ names and the title “Circle Jerk 2009” displayed in pink text. The edition has been produced in a very limited quantity of 50 sets of all 16 posters, full colour offset printed, signed and numbered.
SONG DONG, Waste Not, 2012
height: ca 5 cm
metal, 2 parts, edition 100
Barbican Gallery, London € 120,- / GBP 95.- August 2012
For his first solo exhibition in UK at Barbican Gallery, Song Dong a monumental work, Waste Not, was shown in The Curve. Comprising over 10,000 items collected by Song Dong’s mother over five decades, ranging from a section of the house to metal pots and plastic bowls to blankets, bottle caps, toothpaste tubes and toys. The installation is a tribute to his mother, as well as a meditation on family life during the Cultural Revolution.
MATIAS FALDBAKKEN, Untitled (Plastic Bag / B.F.) 1-5
60 x 55 cm
Marker pen on printed plastic bag, series of 5 unique works, framed
publishers by ICA, London, UK
“Untitled (Plastic Bag / B.F.)1-5 are a continuation of the artists’ ‘container’ works previously involving wardrobe lockers, VHS cassettes, liquor bottles, newspaper vending machines and empty Marshall cabinets. With these works Faldbakken tries, in various ways, to collapse the difference between sculpture and mould, container and content. These ‘plastic bag drawings’ are an ongoing series which the artist has presented in various forms and configurations, sometimes framed uniformly and precisely, often simply taped to the wall with packing tape. The bags are printed with cropped newspaper images which the artist then further works on with an abbreviated text drawn sketchily with marker pen. In this case the ‘writing’ says B.F.”
History of price:
ICA, London, UK € 2.000,- July 2012 (year of launch)
