Category Archives: printed matter



MARINA ABRAMOVIC / ULAY, Nightsea crossing, 1984 [exhibition card]

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MARINA ABRAMOVIC / ULAY, Nightsea crossing, 1984
invitation card
10,5 x 15,5 cm
mint
published by Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
€ 65,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MAbr 813-814-pr

This invitation card was issued on behalf of the exhibition “Gemeenteaankopen 1981/82” at Museum Fodor in Amsterdam. The Municipality of Amsterdam bought the performance Nightsea crossing as a ‘dream’, meaning that the documentation of this piece was part of the purchase. Today this material is part of the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Added:
4 newspaper snippets
3 photo copies newspaper snippets
1 report 13-04-1982 (private archive KvG) on ‘Films van Marina Abramovic/Ulay’
1 form (private archive KvG)
1 letter to committee members of a BKR-projectteam

MARINA ABRAMOVIC & ULAY, China Ring, 1987 [exhibition card]

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MARINA ABRAMOVIC & ULAY, China Ring, 1987
16,6 x 11,1 cm
exhibition card
mint
extremely rare
published by Michael Klein, Inc., Amsterdam
€ 300,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MAbr 807-08-pr

This exhibition is neither listed on the Ulay Foundation’s biography website, nor mentioned in the CV’s of Marina Abramovic. For a very short period Michael Klein Inc. represented Abramovic / Ulay in 1987 in which year the artist’s couple had a one time exhibition at Michel Klein Gallery in New York.

TAKAKO SAITO, Schachspiele, Spiele und Bücher, 1989 [signed catalogue]

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TAKAKO SAITO, Schachspiele, Spiele und Bücher, 1989
21 x 21 cm
catalogue, 80 pp., signed in print
also hand signed in black ink
mint
published by Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Germany
inv.TSait 800-pr

This signed catalogue looks aged and with a dent at the right lower corner. In fact, this is part of the reproduced photo on both sides of the couver. The book is in a pristine condition.

History of price:
UnoriginalSins, UK August 2024 GBP 45.- (unsigned)

KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Bien i Koldum Ofni, 1986 [catalogue Dieter Roth Verlag]

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KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Bien i Koldum Ofni, 1986
29,9 x 10,6 cm
SC, stapled, 12 pp. incl. couver
splendid, slightly aged
rare
published by Dieter Roth Verlag, Reykjavik, Iceland
€ 285,- + € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.KG 789-pr

“Bien i Koldum Ofni” (trans. ‘Bone in a Cold Oven’) is a series of oblong shaped catalogues published by Roth Verlag. Catalogues of various (Icelandic) artists have been issued with works by Jón Gunnar Arnason, Rúri, Björn Roth and others.

History of price:
Derringer Books, Avon, USA July 2024 US$ 394.-

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, Samo, 1981 [invitation card]

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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, Samo, 1981
10,9 x 16,1 cm
invitation card
mint
extremely rare in this pristine condition
published by Galleria d’Arte Emilio Mazzali, Modena, Italy
inv.JMBa 000
p.o.r.

This card announces Jean-Michael Basquiat’s first exhibition at Galleria d’Arte in Modena. A few months earlier, Italian gallerist Emilio Mazzoli had noticed Basquiat’s work in a collective exhibition “New York / New Wave” curated by Diego Cortez at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Mazzoli managed to find a studio and made materials available to Basquiat to paint, so that he could create new works. Later on at the beginning of the summer of 1982, Basquiat returned to Modena at the invitation of Mazzoli to mount his first European exhibition under his real name.

In the seventies, a graffiti tag coined by Basquiat and his collaborator Al Diaz, SAMO — pronounced ‘same-oh’ — started off as a private joke and went on to become an important symbol in Basquiat’s later work, seen in the streets of New York in the seventies. It stands for ‘Same Old Shit’.