MIKE MILLS, The Fabric of Events, 2013
20,9 x 13,3 cm
pocketbook, unpaginated, ill., cardboard box
issue 18
published by The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco, USA
mint
inv.MMil 000-pr
The Thing Quarterly is ‘a magazine in the form of an object’, sometimes being a book. The artist’s book The Fabric of Events of Mike Mills is a compilation of factual stories on social and political issues published in newspapers and other media. Ultra short stories about a catched wild bear in the 19th century, Sammy Davis Jr. staying in the White House, an Iraqi shoe thrown at U.S. President George W. Bush, etc. The idea of reconstructing historical moments by describing an event creates the fabric of events.
inv.MMil 343
MIRELLA BENTIVOGLIO, Letraset metaphors, 1978 [invitation]
29,7 x 21 cm
print on paper, folded as mailed
splendid condition
rare
€ 120,- plus Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.ObandS 341
This is an invitation for an exhibition at Other Books and So / Ulises Carrión in Amsterdam in which Mirella Bentivoglio showed her so called poegraphy.
Ref. Mirella Bentivoglio at National Museum of Women in the Arts
History of prices:
Jonathan Hill, New York, USA US$ 150.- February 2026
Jonathan Hill, New York, USA US$ 300.- June 2023
Other Books And So / ULISES CARRIÓN; Stichting Brummense Uitgeverij, 1976, [invitation]
29,7 x 21 cm
colour stencil on paper, folded as mailed
very rare
€ 120,- sold
inv.ObandS 341
In this group show many artists participated: Geza Perneczky, Ulay, Maurizio Nannucci, Marina Abramovic, Anna Banana, Raoul Marroquin, Tony Morgan, John Baldessari……..
JOSEPH BEUYS, Intuition, 1968
30,5 x 21 x 6 cm
pencil drawing on wood, stapled
edition ca 12.000
pristine
€ 785,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JBeys 83
The multiple Intuition has been produced in an unlimited edition, but always signed and dated by the artist. There are several versions circulating; boxes with round corners, hooky corners, nailed, stapled, and at various spots signed and dated on the back, sometimes also ink stamped. Usually the boxes are aged, this one is exceptionally looking new with its whitish appearance.
The multiple Intuition takes the form of a shallow, open box, assembled roughly and from inexpensive cuts of timber.
The first and uppermost of the inscriptions in pencil consists of the word Intuition beneath which lie two horizontal lines. Joseph Beuys intended these respective lines as pictorial evocations of reason and intuition. The short standing strokes with which the upper line is bounded, call to mind the determinacy of rational thought. The lower line, by contrast, is open at one end, evoking the more enigmatic paths along which intuition can travel.
Manufactured in an unlimited edition, this multiple was originally sold by mail order for eight Deutsch marks. The low costs and ready availability of the work fulfilled the wish of Beuys and his publisher Wolfgang Feelisch to make art more accessible to the general public.
History of prices:
AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald, Berlin, Germany 6 December 2024 € 700,- (hammer price)
eBay-dieter1186, Munich, Germany March 2024 € 1.268,-
Venduehuis, The Hague, Netherlands 29 April 2021 € 800,- (hammer price)
Additional information:
JOSEPH BEUYS, Joseph Beuys, Intuition, 1968
Here text horizontally written in ink on object.
From 1968 on, some 12,000 copies were made of this A4-sized plain wooden box, which went on sale at a price of 8 German marks. Circulated in the manner of a pamphlet, the slogan ‘Intuition’ records in two pencil strokes Beuys’ counter thesis to materialism and rationalism in the context of 1968 and its political debate. The empty wooden box was supposed to become an item of daily use, with intuition potentially filling it with a new attitude.
ROBERT BARRY, During the exhibition the Kunsthalle will be closed, 2016
digital announcement sent by mail
published by Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland
inv.RBar 785
KEREN CYTTER, Terrorist of Love, 2016
HD video 3:16 mins, mp4
signed and dated on certificate
unlimited edition
complimentary publication issued by Daata – Artpace, London, UK
inv.KCyt 000-pr
Terrorist of Love by Keren Cytter is a digital film published by Daata and Artspace, launched in October 2016 and to be down loaded for free at https://daata.art/art/terrorist-of-love. It is one of the best evocative contemporary short art films and ballads I came across in the past five years. Within hardly four minutes many basic human phenomena are passing by: the yell of Tarzan, the Islamic melodies coming into the pop culture, the collapse of the Twin Towers as symbols of power, the love of two people, the joy of life, happiness and irony, sounds and growth in nature, human and animal behaviourism. Amsterdam, 5 October 2016, KvG
HW WERTHER, SOON #HW010 (SOON multiple), 2001
29,7 x 21,1 cm
text on paper, two stickers on coin, original plastic seal envelope
edition 100
published by the artist
EPHEMERA – No. 6, 1978 [monthly magazine]
32 x 23 cm
8 pp.
inlays, stamps + ink stamps, stapled and tipped in contributions, additional work by Niels Lomholt / Tom Elling and Lomholt Formular Press
monthly journal
published by Other Books & So, Amsterdam
condition of first 2 pages on right lower corner: torn off paper of ca 8 x 20 mm
rare, edition unknown
sold
Participating artists are Gabor Toth, Robin Crozier, Balint Szombathy, Barbara J. Hahn, Ken Saville, Günther Brus, General Idea, Henryk Bzdok, Klaus Boegel, Rúri (hand written label “Energy”), Leonard Franck Duch, Dámaso Oguz, Martha Rosler, Horst Hahn, Richard Hartnell, Rúrí a.o.
W wh at*, OOC&C, 2016
each 25,2 x 16,6 cm / 24 pp.
set 13 booklets, digital prints
edition unknown
published by W wh at*, Brussels, Belgium
Benefactors may donate € 75,- or more a year and they wil get a free set.
Het Belgische instituut W wh at* in Brussel – voorheen De Kunstbank in Leuven – staat onder leiding van Herman Labro. Met zijn wisselende teamgenoten bedenkt hij kortlopende projecten voor niet-ingewijden, voornamelijk schoolkinderen en kansarmen. Daarvoor schakelt hij zowel jonge als gevestigde kunstenaars in, zoals Sunday B Morning, Vaast Colson, Voebe de Gruyter en Fred Berrevoets. Hij maakt voor zijn sociaal-maatschappelijk getinte acties gebruik van voorwerpen uit zijn kunst- en designcollectie, die hij in de loop der jaren ‘als te gebruiken materiaal’ heeft opgebouwd. Ook verleend hij opdrachten met een participerende grondslag aan kunstenaars als Jaap Kroneman en Klaas Kloosterboer.
Voor de actie van ‘OOC&C’ 1) heeft Herman Labro teamleden en enkele mensen uit de buurt gevraagd kledingstukken uit zijn modecollectie te kiezen. Naar eigen inzicht, maar wel gesouffleerd, werd een verkleedactie fotografisch vastgelegd. De collectie kleding bestaat o.a. uit ontwerpen van Raf Simons, Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck.
1) Volgens de uitgever is de titel geen afkorting of een verwijzing naar iets.
De laatste pagina van elk boekje is in gevarieerde vorm steeds de omslagfoto van het volgende boekje. Zo vinden 17 kantelingen plaats.
De instelling maakt bij al haar eclectische acties en projecten gebruik van bestaande kunst, modeontwerpen, design objecten en performances van bekende kunstenaars zoals Marina Abramovic. Hiermee positioneert W wh at* zich als een opmerkelijk instituut dat hedendaagse kunst en design kopieert en in samenwerkingsverbanden verandert tot uiterlijke varianten van de oorspronkelijke artefacten en performances van beeldend kunstenaars en ontwerpers uit het gevestigde circuit.
In 2015 heeft W wh at* op instigatie van Herman Labro een opmerkelijke zet gedaan door als instituut een zeer actieve fanclub op te richten voor de Belgische kunstenaar Vaast Colson, namelijk de Voorforvaast-fanclub.
