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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
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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 the 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’.

MEVIS & VAN DEURSEN, Uitnodiging!, 1993 [poster]

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MEVIS & VAN DEURSEN, Uitnodiging!, 1993
42,5 x 30,5 cm (paper size 46.4 x 34.5 cm)
poster
condition very fine
extremely rare
published by Mevis & Van Deursen, Amsterdam

In 1993 curator Moritz Küng was invited to make a show in Galerie van Gelder & AP. For that he invited graphic designers Mevis & Van Deursen (Amsterdam) to make an announcement poster for an exhibition called ‘Uitnodiging!’. The announcement poster of Mevis & Van Deursen shows a crying black woman that could be understood as one that is either crying or laughing, or both perhaps. For the exhibition itself another poster was designed depicting a woman wearing sun glasses.

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Uitnodiging!, 1993 [handkerchief]

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MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Uitnodiging!, 1993
19,5 x 16 cm
linen handkerchief, woven, embroidery, plastic bag
edition 26 + 1 AP
unique embroidered numbering
mint
published by Associated Publishers, Amsterdam

Marijke van Warmerdam made her first multiple in collaboration with curator Moritz Küng and graphic designers Mevis & Van Deursen when she exhibited for the first time in Galerie van Gelder & AP / Associated Publishers. Moritz Küng designed a wooden wall embracing a gallery wall, Mevis & Van Deursen came with an announcement poster ‘Uitnodiging!’ showing a crying black girl that could be understood as one that is either crying or laughing, or both perhaps. For the exhibition itself another poster was designed depicting a girl wearing sun glasses. Marijke van Warmerdam showed a moving (with computer sensor steered) mannequin and dressed in a robe showing an Arcadia landscape. The latter is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.


MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Untitled, 1993

 


MEVIS & VAN DEURSEN, poster ‘Uitnodiging! 1993, used for announcement outdoors


MORITZ KÜNG, Untitled [wall], 1993

JONATHAN MONK, The making of ten posters, ten languages, ten colours, ten words, ten euros, 2011 [set of 10 books]

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JONATHAN MONK, The making of ten posters, ten languages, ten colours, ten words, ten euros, 2011
each book 17 x 11,5 x 0,5 cm
10 books, each 50 pp.
published by Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
pristine
rare as set
set of 10: € 920,- plus € 20,- registered mail Track & Trace
inv.JMon 304-pr

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Each artist’s book contains 50 pages of color photographs documenting the creation of an edition of Jonathan Monk posters. All ten books come in different couver colours, in original cellophane wrapping. No wonder Jonathan Monk says during a studio interview by U. G. Lambert, 26 April 2012: “… Once something has been done, it can be done again in a different colour.” This stack of ten books in different colours demonstrate this idea, in an almost sculptural way.