GILLIAN WEARING, Total Stranger, 2013 – present [commission]

GILLIAN WEARING, Total Stranger, 2013 – present
photo work in commission
signed, numbered
published by Art on the Tube Edition, London, England
GBP 3,000.- March 2014

“The Tube is full of strangers. We acknowledge this fact, knowing that we too are strangers to others. My project is to photograph a stranger. The person came forward via an open call advertised in the Metro newspaper and on the TfL website. I chose them through a raffle­ticket system, which did not reveal their name, age or gender. Until we met on a train and I took her photograph, I still didn’t know her identity, and she didn’t know who I was either. For a brief moment, we were total strangers to each other.” Gillian Wearing

PETRIT HALILAJ, Poisened by men in need of some love, 2013

PETRIT HALILAJ, Poisened by men in need of some love, 2013
color photo, semi-transparant envelope
series of 1 (+ 1AP) of 80 different color photographic
signed
published by Wiels, Brussels, Belgium              € 200,-    December 2013

color photo in semi-transparant envelope (verso):

 

 

 

Singular photos in edition of 1 (+1AP) unique series of 80 photographs that are reproductions of images found in the archive of the former Museum of Natural History in Kosovo.

 

 

 

Examples of unique series of 80 photographs:

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Fragment, 1969 – 2010

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Fragment, 1969-2010
32,3 x 23,9 cm (image 9,9 cm x 10,7 cm)  /  12.7 x 9.4 inches (image size is 3.9″ x 4.2″)
black and white photograph
signed, numbered
edition 70

Depicting circumstances with absurdist tweaks, his Situations as he calls them read as visual poems that explore the idiosyncrasies of human existence and tend toward the comical while retaining philosophical gravity. Gudmundsson uses himself as the subject of the Situations, but does not consider the works to be self-portraits but, rather, open-ended reflections on a more universal level.

CANDICE BREITZ, Double, 2009

            

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

DAAN VAN GOLDEN, Violen, 1991-2012 [edition]

DAAN VAN GOLDEN, Violen, 1991-2012
32 x 32 cm
colour photo
edition 100 + 30 AP
signed, numbered
mint
published by En/Of part of Bottrop-boy, Kleve, Germany
€ 1.250,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail

En/Of 046 was released on the occasion of an exhibition Daan van Golden at De Hallen in Haarlem. The artist chose an image from his well known series “New Delhi”. It comes with a new album with music by by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, who has worked previously on an En/Of record as part of Tarentel. This publication comes with a folded poster of 30 x 30 cm as issued.

When it comes to making a photo edition for Daan van Golden there is not really an interest in limiting an edition in forehand. Basically he prefers to have the amount of a photo edition defined by the amount of buyers during an exhibition. Nevertheless, apparently here he has agreed on applying edition numbers to ‘Violen, 1991-2012′.
Re-using a work from even decades ago is another modus operandi. In this sense the editions by Daan van Golden are contextualized and re-usable any time in whatever form or technique.

History of prices:
Mo-Art Gallery, Amsterdam September 2023 € 1.500,-
Venduehuis, The Hague, Netherlands 14 April € 500,- (hammer price)
Mo-Art Gallery € 1.200,- November 2014
Adam Amsterdam Auctions, Amsterdam December 2018 € 1.450,- (hammer price)
En/Of, Kleve, Germany February 2012 – price in year in of issue € 129,-

FRANÇOIS DEY, Benjamin’s house, 2011

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FRANÇOIS DEY, Benjamin’s house, 2011
each ca 31 x 22 cm (installation size: 66 x 122 cm)
6 photo prints
signed, dated, numbered
edition 3

Swiss artist François Dey (1981) is attracted by the continuous flux of life in which nothing is basically fixed. Therefore improvisation and unexpected contexts make as much sense as well prepared plans and thought over constructions, whether in the physical reality or our mind. Also language is used breaking the laws of idiom and spelling which makes his written texts look peculiar and even shabby. For him it is a way to get out of the prison of too much treaded roads we already know of.

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Upside down, 2008

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM
Upside down, 2008
27 x 40 cm
recto and verso: photo on di-bond, wooden shelf
edition 10
published by the artist
Coll. K. van Gelder, Amsterdam

‘Capturing part of a landscape in a mirror I’m holding is very close to photography. In this case I got a swan inverted in my mirror,’ Marijke van Warmerdam says. An identical photo is pasted upside down on the reverse side. When the panel is turned around, the image initially seems virtually unchanged.

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, In and out, 2006

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, In and out, 2006
66 x 100 cm
photo print on black mirror, dibond
edition 5 + 1 AP
published by World House Editions, Middlebury, Connecticut, USA
p.o.r.
 

 

“Nature decides the fate of an apple that falls from a tree. Here it falls either on the embankment or in the ditch”. Marijke van Warmerdam, 2011
Quote from catalogue ‘Close by in the distance’, published by Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

RONI HORN, Untitled (To Nest), 2001

RONI HORN, Untitled (To Nest), 2001
framed: 46 x 66 cm / 26 x 18 inches
unframed: 40 x 61 cm / 16 x 26 inches
digital ink jet print
edition of 100
verso: signed, dated, numbered
not available

Horn is best known for introducing the personal to minimalist sculpture. Horn’s photographs function somewhere between empirical record and various kinds of repetition of that record. For her, the camera is more than simply a means of transcribing the surface detail and texture of things.

 

History of prices:
Counter Editions, London, England   € 1.100,- / GBP 885.- September 2012