Ulises Carrión, Rob or Marta, ca 1981, invitation to participate
ULISES CARRIÓN, Rob or Marta, n.d. [ca 1981]
14,4 x 10,4 cm
stencil print
condition: top side slightly bumped due to mailing
extremely rare
€ 450,- plus € 15,- registered mail Track & Trace
The text on this invitation reads: ‘I’m going to produce an artwork involving people named either Rob (Bob, Robert, Roberto, etc.) or Marta (Martha, Marthe, etc.). Profession, nationality, and place of residence are irrelevant. Please return this card to me if you want further information.’
YOKO ONO / JOHN LENNON, War Is Over! If you want it, n.d. [1969]
75,5 x 50,5 cm
block print letterpress
edition unknown extremely rare in this vintage condition
condition: aged with various pinholes, two small tears in lower part
hand written text in pencil at lower left: ‘Sonja Carnaby Street London 1969’
Collection Thora Johansen, Amsterdam
inv.YOno 000-pr
“War Is Over, if you want it” is a 1969 poster and billboard action that inspired enough political action that the president of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson sought to have Yoko Ono and John Lennon deported for fear that they would undermine his foreign policy and political fortunes.
At the lower left corner the following text is written in pencil: Sonja Carnaby Street London 1969.
Additional information:
This version of the poster with sub-text ‘Love and Piece from John & Yoko’ is in the collection of MoMA / Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. In 1969 Yoko Ono and John Lennon showed the poster with the sub-text ‘Happy Christmas from John and Yoko’.
ADITYIA MANDAYAM, The Ooze, 2018
12 x 17 cm
book, offset, SC, 144 pp.
interview and texts by Aditya Mandayam (ca 30%), Chris Fitzpatrick, Andrea Liu, Michal Novotny and Kees van Gelder
edition 500
published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Kunstverein München, Germany
Usually so-called artist’s books with texts by others than the artist involved are expelled from The Archive is Limited. This book invites to make an exception. “The Ooze” contains 49 pages of 144 that have been written by Aditya Mandayam. The front and back of the cover show drawings by the artist. “The Ooze” gives an insight in the thinking of Brud through theories and statements.
MARK WALLINGER, “Study for self reflection”, 2018
26 x 20 cm
invitation card, silver foil cardboard
published by Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA
Usually the invitation cards of Hauser & Wirth depict reproductions of art works or reproduced photos of the artists involved in a coming exhibition. Here the printed matter is a piece of silver foil cardboard, apparently to use as a mirroring surface. Therefore first of all this card may be considered as a multiple.
MARIEKE ELZERMAN, Moises y Noe, 2018
[trans. Moises in the Jungle]
20,3 x 30,5 cm
colour photo
signed, dated, numbered
edition 40
published by the artist
Added: postcard + souvenir, i.e. 2 presents from the artist given to ca all 10 crowd funders DoneerDoel.
MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, Le Ultime Parole Famose, 1967
7,6 x 12,6 cm
artist’s book, letterpress, stapled
text in Italian and English
edition 60
published by the artist
naturally discoloured due to its wood-containing paper, light bump top right
good, uncommon in this condition
€ 750,- plus € 18,- registered mail
inv.MPis 155
This booklet is the first artist’s book by Michelangelo Pistoletto in a limited edition of 60 copies as is stated by him in a publication of Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon in France: “Michelangelo Pistoletto Continenti del Tempo”, 2001.
The text is both in Italian and English, the latter being very uncommon at the time! The first line in the book may be considered as the kernel of the whole manifesto and states what it means to be an artist:
“When a man realizes that he has two lives – an abstract one for his mind and a concrete one which is also for his mind – he ends up either like a mad-man, who, out of fear, hides one of his lives and plays the other as a role, or like the artist, who has no fear and who is willing to risk both of them.”
History of prices:
Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, UK GBP 650.- April 2023 (discoloured)
eBay-vetiver62, Firenze, Italy US$ 1,800.- April 2023 (poor and discoloured)
Ellis Bierbar, Milano, Italy € 700,- April 2022 (condition unknown)
Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, UK GBP 650.- October 2021 (discoloured)
eBay-vetiver62, Firenze, Italy US$ 1,800.- October 2021 (poor and discoloured)
eBay-many-giochi, Rome US$ 550.- October 2008 (tear and discoloured)
Barneby’s US$ 850.- January 2018 (discoloured)
HENK PEETERS, Mooi!, 2000
21 x 29.7 cm
unique fax print
In 2000 Galerie van Gelder invited Henk Peeters for a solo exhibition for which he proposed to cover the gallery space with artificial grass and cow hides on the walls. For that an invitation card was made that he apparently liked and commented with ‘Mooi!’, meaning ‘Beautiful!.
JOËLLE TUERLINCKX, Audio and visual days, 2000
42 x 29,7 cm
poster, digital print, folded as issued, original plastic envelope
published by Argos, Brussels, Belgium
inv.JTue 000-pr
Galerie Suspekt, Fotografie van: Artur Barrio, a.o., 1983
poster
66,5 x 49,2 cm
screen print
condition: good, although with some weak dents
rare
€ 160,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.map 000
GIOVANNI ANSELMO, Invisibile, 1998
21 x 29,7 cm / 10,5 x 21,5 cm
A4 sheet + announcement card, 2 parts
published by Haus Edition / Anny De Decker and Stella Lohaus, Antwerp, Belgium
inv.GAns 000-pr
