JONATHAN BOROFSKY, invites, 1982
each ca 10,5 x 15,5 cm
offset, 2 exhibition cards
published by Gemeentelijk van Reekummuseum, Apeldoorn / American Graffiti, Amsterdam.
Added: 2 Dutch newspaper clippings 1982, stencil Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland, 1983, German text by Christian Geelhaar
€ 50,- plus € 8,- Track % Trace registered EU mail
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AERNOUT MIK, Voorwerp, achter te laten in treinen, 1992
7 x 11 x 1,5 cm
sound tape, cassette, photograph
signed, dated
series of 10 unique works
published by the artist
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.AMik 000-pr
…That same intensity of being addressed I felt when I saw the cassette tape of Aernout Mik in 1992. Especially the accompanying title “Object to leave behind in trains” lifted me an inch off the ground. A wonderful purifying plan: get rid of objects by letting others find them.”
Kees van Gelder, in catalogue ‘When artists form ideas’, 2021, Parts Project, The Hague, Netherlands.
‘The idea is that the owner of “Object to leave behind in trains” leaves this item in a train’. Talk with Arnout Mik in Bunnik (NL) on 22 March 2024.
“Miks beelden zijn vaak nogal hermetisch waardoor ze iets zelfingenomens krijgen, maar bij dit werk is dat minder het geval. Op en onder een tafel staan een groot aantal voorwerpen: een enorm blik tonijn, een glazen potje met afgeknipte nagels, een papieren zak met een blikje Budweiser-bier. De titel maakt dat je het beeld gemakkelijk voor je ziet: het nagelpotje staande op het koffieplankje naast het raam – wie zou dat hebben achtergelaten en waarom? De groene legertas vol flessen azijn tegenover je op de lege bank in de trein naar Schiphol.” Hans den Hartog Jager, ‘De Utrechtse School’, NRC Handelsblad, 14 februari 1997.
ROMAN SIGNER, Rotes Tuch, 2021
12 x 5 x 3,2 cm
flip book, 340 pp.
sealed as published
mint
published by Nieves, Zurich, Switzerland
inv.RSig 000-pr
MONIEK TOEBOSCH, 15 minuten solozang, invitation, 1977
29.7 x 21 cm
stenciled print, 2 handmade ink stamps
published by Other Books and So, Amsterdam
condition: good, although yellowed due to non-acid free paper quality
Added: newspaper clipping Het Parool, 1 juni 1983
inv.UCar 000-pr
On the occasion of the new space at Herengracht 259, an exhibition with posters/flyers of Allen Kaprow and an exhibition of Tom Ockerse Editions took place simultaneously. Ulises Carrión was quite proud he got hold on a more than decent amount of printed matter related to Allen Kaprow.
DAVID HORVITZ, Untitled (la Grande Salinette), 2023
10,5 x 15,8 cm
postcard, sand, mat glue
signed, dated, numbered
edition 30
mint
published by More Publishers, Quenast, Belgium
For purchase contact www.morepublishers.be
inv.DHor 000
Plage la Grande Salinette is a popular seaside resort with a view on the bay of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer in France. The owners of publishing house More Publishers invited David Horvitz to make a postcard for a next edition. He came up with the idea to glue beach sand of that resort on a card. Hence the above postcard “Untitled (la Grande Salinette)” that was produced on the spot.
The back of the card mentions ‘From a distance…” that refers to a series of postcards that the publishers Tim Ryckaert and Amélie Laplanche have started to issue in 2023. Every time when they stay in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer (France) they may launch a new edition produced on the spot. Hence the name of this series that alludes with the fact that a plan is proposed by an artist and carried out from a distance…, while the publishing house is located in Belgium.
MARCEL BROODTHAERS, Musée d’Art Moderne à Vendre 1970-1971 pour cause de faillite, 1971
45 x 31,7 cm
SC, Lümbeck binding
pages in catalogue
edition 15.000
19 editioned dust couvers, signed, numbered (here unsigned, not numbered)
condition: couver used, inside very good
published by Verein Progressiver Deutscher Kunsthändler, Cologne, Germany
€ 220,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MBro 103
Sometimes publications hide works of renown artists. The page of Michael Werner Galerie announces the selling of the Museum of Modern Art Marcel Broodthaers founded in 1968. He designed this page and nineteen signed dust couvers were wrapped around the Cologne art fair catalogue.
The same catalogue contains an advertisement of Wide White Space Gallery shows 24 couvers of publications, a page called ‘Ma Collection’ (trans. “My Collection”) specially designed for the occasion by Marcel Broodthaers.
Marcel Broodthaers – Michael Werner Galerie
Marcel Broodthaers – Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp
Richard Long – Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Zero – Galerie Ursula Lichter, Frankfurt am Main
Jan Dibbets – Video Galerie Gerry Schum, Düsseldorf
GERHARD RICHTER, 100 Abstract paintings, 2023
24 x 17 x 2,3 cm
HC, 208 pp., artist’s book
mint
published by David Zwirner Books, New York, USA
US$ 50.- for sale at David Zwirner Gallery Gerhard Richter books
inv.GRic 000
“The 100 Abstract Pictures shown here originated about five years ago, when I poured enamel paints on a fifty-by-fifty centimeter glass plates. The paints then flowed into one another without completely mixing. Thus they produced countless ephemeral abstract pictures, which I captured in photographs….” Gerhard Richter
The book includes ad randomly chosen letter combinations that were generated at random and put together into a kind of abstract concrete poetry.
History of price:
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA US$ 50.- July 2023 (year of issue)
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Op naar een nieuwe wereld! / On to a new world!, 2004
31 x 23 cm
mat colour photo on aluminum plate, comes with catalogue, clamshell box
signed, dated, numbered
edition 42
mint
published by Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany
€ 450,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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The tendency to balance between reality and abstraction is characteristic of the work of Marijke van Warmerdam. This ‘flattening’ of reality may seem to make the work less accessible, but her titles always offer guidance and redemption. They function as a catalyst for the image as a whole, in other words: the image that may be viewed together with the title – as an angle to look from.
The edition ‘On to a new world!’ shows a landscape of an unknown planet. It appears to have been photographed from a high-altitude satellite. A shooting star (at the sight of it, a part of humanity makes a wish, it is said) is supposed to emphasize that. In reality, the landscape is a close-up of a badly plastered wall.
Marijke van Warmerdam likes to take a positive approach to anticipating what will possibly take place in the future. By means of the imperative ‘On to a new world!’ she wants to face the future with an optimistic view.
KvG, June 2023
HANS KOETSIER, Advertisements 1969-1981, 1984
60 x 46,4 x 2,5 cm
HC, offset, 93 plates (186 pp.), linen bound with bolts, ca 11 kgs.
signed
rare in this condition
published by Staatsuitgeverij, Den Haag, Netherlands
added: 16 full page Vrij Nederland newspaper advertisements, vintage
extremely rare
€ 1.250,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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Hans Koetsier initially worked in advertising and started painting in 1962. He painted figures and fragments of these and incorporated them into serigraphs. At the end of the sixties, he made his first blobby balloon-like sculptures and gradually the idea became more and more important. He developed into a conceptual artist with always a soft spot for typography and ideas written down as ideas. Director of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Wim Beeren suggested to him to advertise and in 1969 he placed his first series of advertisements with texts in national newspapers Het Parool, NRC Handelsblad, Art Forum (USA), Kunst (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) Studio International (UK) and on the front page of Dutch weekly magazine Vrij Nederland under the title ‘Random Art / Probability Art’.
Hans Koetsier has never shared his ideas within the Fluxus or Provo movement. Yet the fact cannot be denied that he had comparable autonomous thinking and acting. In the Netherlands Koetsier became known for unusual high-profile plans. For example, he once suggested establishing a national holiday, the ‘Day of Inspiration’, starting on Whit Monday 1980. The Dutch Prime Minister Van Agt was against the idea, because it would suggest that in the Netherlands there was a “fairly general lethargy”, which he said was not the case.
In Friesland, which according to Koetsier would be the last oasis left in the middle of industrialization, Koetsier wanted to build a watchtower in a place where the view around would still be intact.
Hans Koetsier became best known for placing advertisements in weekly magazine Vrij Nederland, which, in addition to short-sighted texts, often had an algebraic or enigmatic appearance.
KvG June 2023
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Advertisement in Vrij Nederland, 15 April 1978
Advertisement in Vrij Nederland, February 1974
Advertisement in Vrij Nederland, 10 February 1973
Advertisement in Vrij Nederland, 2 February 1974
Advertisement in Vrij Nederland, 15 February 1975
Advertisement in Vrij Nederland, 31 December 1975
OLIVIER MOSSET, Biennale di Venezia, 1990
40 x 30 cm
catalogue Swiss Pavilion, SC, 24 pp., 6 full colour spreads, sewn
text L’ objet qui n’en est pas un by Jean Beaudrillard in French, Italian, German and English
published by Schweizerisches Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern and Verlag Lars Müller, Baden, Switzerland
condition of dust couver: used
€ 110,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered mail
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Olivier Mosset is known for making huge paintings as shown among other venues in Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam and at the Venice Biennale, both in 1990.
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History of price:
Alternate Projects, London, UK August 2023 US$ 330.-
20th Century art Books, Lugano, Switzerland August 2023 € 268,-