TAMÁS ST.AUBY, SUBSIST.ENCE LEVEL ST.ANDARD Project 1984, 2013
29,7 x 21 cm
2 prints (screen shots website ExIndex)
inv.DTan 000
One of the most unknown-known Hungarian artists is Tamás St. Auby (ps. of Tamás Szentjóby, born in 1944) being a non-artist, poet and performer, both inside and outside of the arts. He founded IPUT / ‘International Parallel Union of Telecommunications’ in 1968. Its central idea: “The art is hokum. The history is hokum. Art is everything, what not allowed. Be not allowed!” He had to leave Hungry in 1975, and he came back not earlier than in 1991.
When I met Tamás St. Auby for the first time in his studio in 2004, I was quite impressed by his for me scary shamanistic dominance in his social interaction. Yet his presence was deeply lived through and sensitive. His attitude was not one of being an artist in the first place but more one of a teacher of an academy in Budapest. At once it was clear to me that I wanted to invite him to participate in ‘Freedom Borders’, a group exhibition with Hungarian artists I curated in Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam in 2004. The other two artists were Szabolcs KissPàl and visual poet and writer Dezsö Tandori.
Part of installation in ‘Freedom Borders’ at Galerie van Gelder, 2004
Foto K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
TAMÁS ST. AUBY, Ballot-Disco, 2004
250 x 140 x 140 cm
wood, voting bills, pen, walk-man/sound, map, light, human skull, plastic curtain, cardboard box
ERIC ANDERSEN, ‘Great occupation, but very few plants’, 2013
2 prints on A4, added 2 prints about exhibition Tamás St. Auby
mail 15 May 2013 at 13:44 hours about announcement of Tamás St. Auby’s exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Budapest, Hungary
By mail Eric Andersen gave a comment on an announcement of Hungarian artist Tamás St. Auby’s call to occupy “Rosa Fluxemburg Platz” on behalf of his exhibition in Museum Ludwig in Budapest: ‘Great occupation, but very few plants’. The chosen font of the lettering in red is typical for Andersen and may be found on badges he made with various texts.
LUC DELAHAYE, untitled [Ordinary Meeting of the Conference], ca 2006
13,5 x 28 cm
print, card, MC,
ink stamped signature
published by Contemporary, London, UK
edition 3000
splendid condition, verso browned card due to aging
inv.Cont 359-pr
GERHARD RICHTER, Gerhard Richter, 1969
20 x 21,2 cm
catalogue, offset, SC, stapled, 28 pp., unpaginated
published by Gegenverkehr, Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst Aachen, Germany
condition good; cover slightly yellowed at right side, tiny scuffed spot at left top corner, smudge on back of cover sold
KRISTJÁN GUDMUNDSSON, Equal-time lines, n.d. [1974]
29,7 x 21 cm
printed invitation, mini sticker
handwritten address by the artist
published by IN-OUT Centre, Amsterdam rare
inv.KG 47
In-OUT Centre was an artist’s run space. Each artist took care of his or her own printing and mailing. The copy of this invitation is handwritten by Kristján Gudmundsson who originally planned to have it sent to his home address, but for some reason it was never posted.
KLAAS KLOOSTERBOER, The Rules & The Game, 2022
29,7 x 21,3 cm
SC, 32 pp., digital printing, 3 sorts of paper, sewn
first run edition 50, sale-on-demand
published by Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, design Irma Boom
inv.KK 568-pr
This catalogue was published on behalf of Klaas Kloosterboer’s solo exhibition “The Rules & The Game” in Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo. This publication is apparently designed as an atmosphere experience added to the exhibition and not so much about reproductions of the works on display. This gives it the feel of an artist’s book, which is not the case.
SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, poster Museum Het Domein, 2000
41,8 x 59,4 cm
poster, offset
published by Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands mint
p.o.r.
inv.SG 399-pr
JOHN M ARMLEDER, invitation card ‘Six Logo’s around the carpet’, 1991
21 x 14 cm
offset
mint
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 25,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JMA 000
In “Six Logo’s around the carpet” a hand woven carpet with tassels by Peter Nagy played a central role. The title of this black and white fabric is ‘Desease and Decoration’. It depicts six microscopic enlarged Aids-virus pictures used as a decoration for a carpet that was produced and distributed by Equator Productions in Brussels in Belgium. Six art works were shown on six walls.
Participating artists:
John M Armleder
Ansuya Blom
Hreinn Fridfinnsson
Kristján Gudmundsson
J.C.J. Vanderheyden
Olivier Mosset
Peter Nagy
