Category Archives: Editions



CADY NOLAND, No Land, 2018 [book]

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CADY NOLAND, No Land, 2018
28,7 x 20,8 cm
ink hand stamped book couver + envelope
Lümbeck binding, SC, 124 pp.
2nd and extended edition
mint condition
published by Anonymous, London, UK
Private collection, New York, USA
sold

The book “No land” was first published in 2011. This is a second and extended edition, composed with a ‘Clip-on method’. It has been archived by The Archive is Limited, in spite of its unauthorised publication. The book consists of a peculiar compilation of ‘found’ reproductions of all sorts. The notion ‘found’ ought to be understood as trying to circumvent the artist’s strict control over the use and dissemination of her images, texts and works.
A hand stamped couver and tight envelope, and its cheap printing give it the looks of an artist’s book. In fact, it is a full colour chronological compendium of art reproductions taken from magazines, press clippings and exhibition catalogues. The title page of this book reads “Art reproductions of Cady Noland’s work 1989 – 2006”, as if it concerns an institutional catalogue. Instead art reproductions themselves have been reproduced.
There is no colophon or name of publisher that authorises this publication. On Internet there is a link leading to The Piracy Project, being part of And Publishing.org in the UK.

 


JIRI VALOCH, Eye Piece XIII, 1978-1979

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JIRI VALOCH, Eye Piece XIII, 1978-1979
29,3 x 21 cm
letterpress print
edition 40
signed, numbered
€ 480,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.JVal 846

 

This signed and numbered stiff paper print is not numbered, but probably it was part of the 10th Anniversary Hundertmark Edition box issued in 1980.
Ref. Eric Andersen

Jiří Valoch’s works are not of the narrative kind. Basically he presents the reader a few words or a short text and the reader finishes the work as if a verbal puzzle has to be resolved. In all cases it creates relational images in the mind, playing with connotations of the used notions. It is a question of filling in the open space within a group of given data. With this he draws attention to what happens when one is ‘reading’ his given letters or words. In “Eye Piece XIII” the reader makes a sculpture above the print with movements of the eye. KvG

History of price:
The 10th Anniversary Hundertmark Edition box was priced € 16.000,- at Hundertmark in June 2019.

JIRI VALOCH, Study of identification, 1972

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JIRI VALOCH, Study of identification, 1972
14,9 x 15 cm
portfolio with 4 cards
edition 100, here 26/100
signed and numbered on portfolio, each card also verso signed in pencil with surname
published by the artist
good condition, although slightly discoloured due to age and dog’s ear at lower right of portfolio
extremely rare
sold

 

This edition has been signed and dated on the portfolio. The backside of each separate card has been signed in pencil with ‘Valoch’. Two cards have been signed horizontally parallel to reading the words and two cards have been signed vertically, apparently to indicate that the words ‘here’ and ‘there’ should not be read horizontally on all of the four cards.

JIRI VALOCH, Do it yourself I – signs + Do it yourself II – dialogues, 1972

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JIRI VALOCH, Do it yourself I – signs + Do it yourself II – dialogues, 1972
each 20,8 x 15 x 0,3 cm
2 portfolios with each 9 sheets
edition 100, here 26/100
signed, numbered
published by the artist
good condition, although slightly discoloured due to aging
very rare
€ 595,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JVal 847-pr

 

Jirí Valoch is a visual and conceptual poet and works with graphic and textual concepts. His minimal events and interventions in natural settings find their way often through conceptual drawings, short and ‘easy-to-make’ books and installations with texts.

Jirí Valoch had solo exhibitions since 1966 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, Italy, The Netherlands and Austria. He participated in group shows in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Great Britain, Mexico, Spain, Italy, USA, Argentina, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Austria, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Austria, Israel and Canada. From 1968 – 1972 he was a member of Klub Konkretistu (Concretists’ Club) and since 1997 he has been a member of the Brno section of the Klub Konkretistu 2; since 1991 he has been a member of the TT Klub of Creative Artists and Theoreticians. He lives and works in Brno.