BEN PATTERSON, Sneak Preview – Special edition, one of five “surprises”, 2014
5,3 x 31,6 x 22,3 cm
3 photo prints, 2 DVD’s, catalogue, list of content, confetti streamers and various items, cardboard box
signed, dated
with dedication special edition 5 rare
published by Down With Art! Verlag, Berlin, Germany
(in stead of € 500) € 250,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.BPa 000-pr
Publisher (ed. Petra Stegmann) Down With Art! Verlag asked to financially support the production of a catalogue to be named ‘Sneak Preview’. For this, a cardboard box with surprises was sent to a very limited amount of supporters. This is one of the five boxes made for the occasion.
YINKA SHONIBARE, Flower Head, 2006
19,4 x 15 cm
print, ink stamped
hand numbered, edition 3000, here number 390/3000 extremely rare
published by Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
inv.YSh 490-pr
Subscribers of British art magazine Contemporary got this print for free.
MIKE KELLEY, Destroy All Monsters Magazine, 2011
together with CARY LOREN, NIAGARA and JIM SHAW
27 x 21 cm
artist’s book, SC, 270 pp.
signed
special edition 100, here numbered 2/100 includes a unique monotype-spray painted page, signed by 4 artists
black and white photograph (signed photo edition number 46/75) by Cary Loren, sealed bag with sand, original mylar envelope mint
published by Destroy All Monsters magazine, Detroit, USA
€ 980,- plus € 24, – Track & Trace registered EU mail
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‘Formed in 1973, the Detroit band Destroy All Monsters was a wild and reckless synthesis of psychedelia, proto-punk, heavy metal, noise and performance art. The collective hailed from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and consisted of Cary Loren, Mike Kelley, Niagara and Jim Shaw (with later members including Ron Asheton of the Stooges and Michael Davis of the MC5). Later emerging as extremely distinctive individual artists, collectively the group forged new terrain in art, music, performance, theater and video. Destroy All Monsters released very little recorded music until Thurston Moore issued a three-CD compilation in 1994, but they published six issues of a now legendary and much sought-after zine, also titled Destroy All Monsters. This publication collects those six zines, released between 1976 and 1979, and also includes parts of a lost seventh issue that never saw publication. The Destroy All Monsters zines comprise a vibrant array of collage, writing, photography and other miscellanea by Kelley, Loren, Niagara and Shaw, and together provide insight into the collective’s kaleidoscopic vision of the dystopian values of their time.
“The new reprint volume lacks any introductory or explanatory text; true to Destroy All Monsters’ anarchic spirit, it plunges the reader straight into a frenzied dystopic world. Détourned comic strips, images pulled from pulp magazines, film stills, and tabloid news clippings clash with saccharine greeting cards, family Polaroids, and children’s coloring-book pages, while Op-art backgrounds, scrawled doodles, stickers, and rubber stamps compound the visual pandemonium. All of this is faithfully reproduced in the new facsimile, which is hand-bound and printed on paper of different weights, colors, and finishes—from coated stock to copy paper in elementary-school pastels. Each copy also includes a unique original spray painting by Loren, giving this lavish reproduction an authentically DIY accent.” Gwen Allen, Bookforum review
Ref. https://www.thebookbeat.com/bookshop/catalog/destroy-all-monsters-magazine/
In 1974, while attending the University of Michigan, he co-founded the proto-punk, experimental noise band Destroy All Monsters (DAM). The member of the band were: Mike Kelley on drums and vocals, Jim Shaw on vocals and squeeze toys, Niagara (Lynn Rovner) on vocals, and Cary Loren on guitar and vocals. Having met each other at the university, DAM convened in the basement of Kelley’s student accommodation, also known as ‘God’s Oasis Drive-In Church’, which soon became a communal space for the band to collaborate. Image below shows dirt in a tiny bag from ‘God’s Oasis Drive-In Church’, being part to this edition.
MIEKO SHIOMI, Events & Games, 2005
5 x 14 x 16.8 cm
black and white photograph – crumpled as issued, 22 cards with instructions + loose card with colphon
(incl. Chieko Shiomi: Water Music card)
screen print on plastic box
edition 80 + 5 AP
signed, numbered, here number 64/80
mint
published by 360 grades, Tokyo, Japan
inv.MShi 000-pr
This white plastic box is a re-edition of ‘Events & Games’ from the edition of 1964, signed and numbered by the artist. Mieko Shiomi was a Japanese composer, visual artist and poet.
‘Content
● 23 Instruction cards of various sizes, 1 black & white photo, explanation card in the white plastic box: 14 bilingual cards and the cards of the smallest & medium sizes of “SHADOW PIECE Ⅱ” were printed by George Maciunas for the Fluxus Edition in the early 60’s. The other 7 cards in English were printed by the author for ReFlux in the 1980’s.
● The profile (black & white photo) and the box were reproduced for this edition by Gallery 360°.
After Kuniharu Akiyama passed away, who was an original member of Fluxus and was a conductor for the Fluxus concert at Carnegie Hall, a bunch of instruction cards of Mieko Shiomi were found in his belongings. They are the instructions for the events for Fluxus. Anybody can revive the events just by following the instructions.’
From website of Gallery 360°
Mieko Shiomi began studying musicology at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1957. Interested in avant-garde music, she founded the group Ongaku with her classmates in 1960, which explored new forms and improvised performances. She then played her first compositions in public. In 1961 she participated in a concert with Toshi Ichiyanagi, the first husband of Yoko Ono, who mentioned the group to George Maciunas. He in turn included them in his tentative program for the Festival of Very Early Music, a programme that he wrote in 1962 but which was never realised; the group split up shortly after. Mieko Shiomi deepened her exploration of spatial-temporal music in relation to everyday objects. Between 1962 and 1963 she began to write exclusively textual pieces that she called action poems. In 1963 she created Endless Box, a multiple composed of 34 boxes in foldable paper of differ sizes, which she sent – on the advice of Nam June Paik (1932-2006) – to Maciunas, thus making her entrance into the Fluxus movement.
Aware-Archives of Women Artists, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Kuniharu Akiyama (1929-1996), a Japanese avant-garde composer, music critic, producer and poet was a founding member of the Jikken Kobo group of avant-garde artists in the 1950s. As a music critic he was best known for his studies of Erik Satie and Japanese film music. He was married to the pianist Aki Takahashi.
Verso: text on cards are in Japanese with black background.
Gallery 360 grades, Tokyo, Japan€ April 2026 271,83
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, Point d’Ironie, 1998-2021
42,8 x 30,6 cm
offset on thin paper, 8 pp., reprint Number 7
published by Agnes B., Paris, France
mint condition, once folded as issued
inv.Pointd 954-pr
WILLIAM EGGLESTON, 2025, Point d’Ironie
39,6 x 30,2 cm
8 pp., offset on thin paper, Number 70
published by Agnes B., Paris, France
mint condition, center folded as issued
inv.Pointd 954-pr
‘William Eggleston (born in 1939, Memphis Mississippi) is an American photographer who pioneered color photography. For the Point d’Ironie, William Eggleston selected four photographs from The Outlands. The Outlands, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between 1969 and 1974, establishes the groundbreaking visual themes and lexicon that the artist would continue to develop for decades to come.’ Agnes b.
KATHARINA FRITSCH, Spaziergänger mit Hund, 1986
14,8 x 10,5 cm
offset, postcard
published by Sonsbeek 86, Arnhem, Netherlands
recto: mint – verso: aged paper
limited edition
photo: Thomas Ruff, Düsseldorf, Germany
€ 50,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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This artist’s postcard was especially printed for sculpture exhibition Sonsbeek ’86 and distributed free to the public attending the show. As with other Fritsch items there was only one printing of the card. In the catalogue raisonné this card is archived as a multiple. Image is by Thomas Ruff, Düsseldorf, Germany.
GERHARD RÜHM, portrait, 1996
10,1 x 14,4 cm
colour photo print, verso sticker with text, envelope
edition unknown
photo: Francesco Conz
published by Galerie A, Amsterdam
inv.Flux 000
SYLVIE FLEURY, portrait of a gallerist (wearing bow tie by John M Armleder), 1991
2 unique black and white analogue photo prints
each 15,6 x 10,5 cm / 10,5 x 15,6 cm
signed note, envelope, date-stamped 6-11-1991, 4 parts
inv.SF 377-pr
These photos were taken during the instalment of John Armleder’s second solo exhibition at Galerie van Gelder in 1991, for which he made a.o. three large Pour paintings. He dipped two bow ties into a puddle of paint that was leaking from the paintings leaning against the wall. Sylvie immortalised that action by taking a picture of the gallerist wearing one of the ties.
Vaguely, I remember that Sylvie Fleury wanted to capture my more than average height by photographing from a frog’s point of view. i am not sure, I should ask her about this, I guess. KvG
Note
The letterhead on the notepad sheet reads: “Those SHOES! I must have Those SHOES!” – Confessions of a Crazed Shopper.
