GARY HUME, Misery, 2012

GARY HUME, Misery, 2012
49,8 x 32 cm
silver paper, acrylic paint, collage on hand made paper
series of 25 unique collages
numbered, signed
published by Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Berlin
not available

Gary Hume once said: ‘The surface is all you get of me’, and one can see in this collage what he means given that his applied material is not only smooth and polished, but above all very present. He is known for paintings between figuration and abstraction on aluminum panels, which often feature colour combinations made with industrial paints.

Gary Hume was one of the very first of the Young British Artists to be embraced by the art establishment – the first to win the Jerwood Prize in 1997, the first to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1999, the first to be elected to the Royal Academy in 2001.

History of price:
Monopol/Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Berlin  € 3.900,- December 2012

JOHN BALDESSARI, Beach towel, 2012

JOHN BALDESSARI, Beach towel, 2012
70 x 60 inches
100% cotton beach towel
original wrapping, tag
published by WOW / Works on Whatever, New York, USA
mint
€ 495,- plus € 20,- Track & Trace registered EU mail



 

John Baldessari is known for integrating photomontage, painting, and text. His visual juxtapositions connect words with images to illuminate, mystify, and contest meaning and expectations. In an interview he once said that he unavoidably will be remembered as the artist with the circles.

History of prices:
eBay-dynas-46, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA US$ 450.- September 2023
Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Van Nuys, CA, USA US$ 754.- 15 December 2022
eBay-thearteryfineart, USA € 430,46 September 2021
Wright Auction, Chicago, USA € 315,- 18 November 2020
Works on Whatever, New York € 72,- / US$ 95.- December 2012 (year of issue)

OLAFUR ELIASSON, Little Sun, 2012

OLAFUR ELIASSON, Little Sun, 2012
ca 8 x 8 x 2 cm
torch with verso 6 x 6 cm mono-crystalline solar module
published by Tate Modern, London, England  € 21,- / GBP 17.- December 2012

On 31st of December 2018 more than 838.000 solar torches had been distributed worldwide.
Olafur Eliasson: ‘Light is for everyone – it determines what we do and how we do it. This is why Frederik Ottesen and I have developed the solar-powered lamp Little Sun. Little Sun is a small work of art with a large reach. One part of the artwork is the lamp and the activities it enables. The other is the successful distribution of Little Sun in off-grid communities, its journey from production to usage.’

According to Tate Modern (2012): ‘By purchasing a Little Sun solar-powered lamp here, you help make it available for a lower price to people who do not have consistent access to electricity’.

 

DAN GRAHAM, Fish Pond / Swimming Pool, 2012

DAN GRAHAM, Fish Pond / Swimming Pool, 2012
22″ x 40″
digital print
signed, numbered, edition 108, of which 30 in portfolio with six prints
part of Vera List Anniversary Print Portfolio
published by Lincoln Center, MIT and Vera List Center
not available

Dan Graham’s Fish Pond/Swimming Pool reveals his fascination with reflection and perception. His plans for a partitioned fish pond-cum-swimming pool illustrate a bi-species participatory art experience, as both fish and humans move within the same environment. Guided by an interest in perspective, Dan Graham creates works that explore the activities of voyeurism and spectatorship through the artistic medium of architecture.

History of price:
Lincoln Center, MIT and Vera List Center US$ 750.- December 2012 (year of issue)

JOHN BOCK, Ohne Titel (Untitled), 2012

JOHN BOCK, Ohne Titel, 2012
ca 235 × 43 x 65 cm
various bike parts assembled
unique series of 4
signed, numbered
published by NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany   

History of price:
NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany – December 2012 € 6.200,-  

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, Preparatory Drawings for Crystal of Resistance, 2012

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, Preparatory Drawings for Crystal of Resistance, 2012
35 x 51 cm
eighty-eight facsimiles in offset, three original drawings in variable sizes,
cardboard box, label, numbered by the artist, edition 29
published by Three Star Books, Paris, France
inv.ThHir?

 
This edition with unique preparatory drawings – not signed, though – is a follow-up to Crystal of Resistance, the artist’s large-scale work for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennial and one of the few artist’s notes which remained after the exhibition.

CLAUDE CLOSKY, Dada DIY, 2012

CLAUDE CLOSKY, Dada DIY, 2012
chain 71 cm / letters 2 cm, box
mixed media
edition 100
published by Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France

Claude Closky is known for making Appropriation art using advertising, fashion and commodity items. Making a fashionable bracelet and at the same time referring to a protest movement like Dada is a kind of double Appropriation art, i.e.  a kind of contamination of Prada and Dada Do It Yourself. See also Jonathan Monk’s ‘Dada Necklace’ (2012) apparently has responded to this multiple.

History of prices:
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France      €  80,-  October 2012
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France      € 100,-  January 2013
Artspace, New York, USA                  € 312,- / US$ 400.- April 2013

LATIFA ECHACKHCH, Untitled, 2012 [screenprint]

LATIFA ECHAKHCH, Untitled, 2012
21 x 29,7 cm
screenprint, 270 grams Zerkall paper
edition 100, here nr 178
signed, numbered on certificate
published by Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
inv.LEch 000-pr

Reflecting on ideas of absence inherent in migration, French-Moroccan artist Latifa Echakhch – having herself a diverse cultural heritage, living in France and Switzerland – made a sculptural work that to an extent ‘repopulates’ the island over the winter months. With the expertise of the renowned Research Institute Senckenberg, the island’s biotope was mapped. Based on these findings, Echakhch developed a project centering around the transient nature of life on the island and the fluctuation of migrating birds, and fabricated a number of kites in the shape of birds to be attached to the trees. The kites are made from plastic bin-bags, echoing the paradox of a nature reserve in an urban cityscape. The screenprint Untitled, 2012 reminiscences this outdoor event.

DAMIEN HIRST, untitled, 2012 [tea towel]

DAMIEN HIRST, untitled, 2012
print on tea towel
published by Other Criteria, London, UK

Damien Hirst is entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists, who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. No matter how many spot paintings there are on whatever, there will always be more words spilled over them. Always structured on the grid the works on canvas look as if they were generated by machine. Here, indeed, dots are printed on a tea towel.

Other Criteria was founded as a publishing company in 2005 by Damien Hirst, Hugh Allan and Frank Dunphy, with creative directorship from Jason Beard and based in Marylebone, London, UK.

 

History of prices:
Artspace, New York, USA October 2023 € 287,-
eBay-positive_star_japan, October 2023 US$ 174.-
Other Criteria, London, England September 2012 € 18,-

JOHN BALDESSARI, Wrong [1966-1968], 2012 [LACMA print]

JOHN BALDESSARI, Wrong [1966-1968], 2012 
71 x 56 cm / 28 x 22 inches
digital print on archival paper
edition unknown
published by LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
mint
rare
€ 340,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.JBal 000-pr

 

John Baldessari made this print as a painting between 1966 and 1968. He was intentionally questioning the conventions of photographic picture-making, among other things. He created this work after looking at an art instruction book about how to properly compose images. Baldessari had himself photographed in front of a palm tree. He comments: The person that did the book had sketches of the scene, of let’s say a landscape, but there would be two. And one would be right, according to him, and one would be wrong. And I loved the idea that somebody would just say that this is right and this is wrong. So I decided I would have a painting that was wrong, a work of art that was wrong, which seemed right to me.

Baldessari is interested in communicating his concept more than he is in creating something precious or unique. After he decided that his own handwriting was too personal and not distant enough he hired a professional sign painter to letter the word “wrong” you see on the original painting. This poster being just a mere reproduction may ‘as communicating his concept’ therefore be undeniably seen as a work of art, though unsigned.

John Baldessari says about his work: I’m very interested in both language and imagery; I don’t really know why, but I find word and image equally important. He is known for works that blend photographic materials such as film stills and applied discs in colour. He takes them out of their original context and rearranges their form, often outlining their shapes including the addition of words or short sentences.

This print is sold out at LACMA, Los Angeles, USA.

History of prices:
eBay-dynas-46, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA September 2023 US$ 450
eBay-hypegallery, Houston, USA August 2022 US$ 399