SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, The Universe is a Poem, 2021
18 x 13,2 cm
offset, HC, 46 pp.
here signed
published by Ars Longa, Braedslan, Djúpavogur, Iceland
p.o.r.
This is a catalogue accompanying a solo exhibition at Ars Longa with artist’s statements on the first 7 pages on thinner paper in the front: The universe is a poem.
The only way to understand my art is to love it.
My art is my way to live my life.
My art begins where my thinking leaves off.
“Ars Longa” is a contemporary art museum located in Djúpivogur. Its venue is an old abandoned fish factory in Borgarfjörður Eystri. In 2021 it has received a gift of twenty-seven art works by Sigurður Guðmundsson. All the works can be found in his solo exhibition “Alheimurinn er ljóð / The Universe is a Poem”, which opened in Bræðslan in Djúpivogur in July. Sigurður Guðmundsson, who together with Þór Vigfússon is the founder of the new museum, says he hopes that within a few years this museum property will become a venue with new inputs of works of art by contemporary artists, both foreign and Icelandic artists.
BEN VAUTIER, Stencils de Ben 1963-1969, 1969
31 x 21,5 cm
stencils on paper, 58 loose sheets in folder with printed title
edition of 180
artist’s publication
not available
The text in French reads: ‘This collection contains old stencils dating from 1963 to 1969. I removed these stencils because lately people often asked me for old issues of TOUT from 1 to 6 which are sold out.
This collection is far from complete; most of the stencils of magazine ‘BEN DIEU’ those of the chapter poetry and ‘Moi Ben je Signe’, have not been preserved’
ELVIRE BONDUELLE, You are a Tombola winner!
print of mail 26 April, 2012
29,7 x 21 cm
print
inv.EB 234-pr
This is a print of a mail about a lot won at a tombola at One Star Press, Paris, France. On the evening of 25th of April Elvire Bonduelle created 26 drawings in a row by means of a ruler, template and colour pencils. The ones who bought lottery tickets could win one of these during her performance. I was one of the winners! KvG
ANDY WARHOL, Mao, 1974
135 x 44,5 cm
screen print, wallpaper with text “Andy Warhol – TRIM”
published by Musée Galliera, Paris, France
condition: fine, although partly hue-like discoloured
€ 850,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
Wallpaper “Mao” can be found with different texts on the left or right border of the print. Apart from this black and white print colour versions were produced.
Andy Warhol had solo exhibition in Musée Galliera in Paris from 23 February through 18 March, 1974.
History of price:
Sworders Fine Arts Auctioneers, Stanstead, UK 22 August 2023 GBP 580 (hammer price)
DuMouchelles, Detoit MI, USA 16 July 2021 US$ 800.- (hammer price)
EL LISSITZKY, badge, 1990
5,3 x 5,4 cm
glossy print, badge/lapel/pin
limited edition
published by Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA very rare
splendid condition
inv.ELis 24-pr
This edition was produced decades after El Lissitzky’s death in 1941, and so made without his consent. Nevertheless it is archived for curiosity reasons, being part of the Rosa Esman Gallery in New York that had apparently reasons for having such a pin made without an autorisation of the artist. The badge is similarly fabricated as the one of Sol LeWitt with iconic stripes in black and white. Opposite to the LeWitt badge the one of Lissitzky is verso dated: “1990”, perhaps a circumstantial evidence that both pins were made in the same period.
See Sol LeWitt [pin, ca 1990]
WILLEM DE RIDDER, Bitte gib diese Karte der Person zurück…, nd [2012]
15,2 x 21 cm
photo copy
signed in print
part of performance in Wiesbaden, Germany, 2012
