ERIC ANDERSEN, ‘Great occupation, but very few plants’, 2013


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.

 

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Schema Informazione 2, 1974 [magazine Galleria Schema]

Schema Informazione 2, 1974
30 x 21,5 cm
number 2, 68 pp.
published by Galleria Schema, Firenze, Italy
condition: very good, although cover carefully used
very rare
€ 300,- plus € 20,- Track & Trace registered mail

 

Schema Informazione is a catalogue published in magazine format on behalf of a group exhibition “Retuned to Sender” at Galleria Schema in Firenze, Italy. The exhibition was announced as ” Texts, musics, diagrams, scores, books, slides, notes, photographs, revues, video tapes, multiples, projects, statements, films, ideas………”.

List of participating artists:
Vito Acconci
Vincenzo Agnetti
Marcel Allocco
Adriano Altamira
Eleanor Antin
Eric Andersen
Giovanni Anselmo
Arakawa
Art & Language
Gabor Attalai
John Baldessari
Dana Atcheley
Imre Bak
Manuel Barbadillo
Robert Barry
Roberto Barni
Carlo Battisti
Lanfranco Baldi
Bernhard & Hilla Becher
Massimo Becattini
Mirella Bentivoglio
Maurizio Benveduti
Carlo Bertocci
Gerard Bjerlej
Joseph Beuys
Julien Blaine
Alighiero Boetti
Mel Bochner
Borillo/Mariotti
Werner F. Bonin
Christian Boltanski
Giovanni Bruscino
Enrico Bugli
Chris Burden
Daniel Buren
Bulkowski
Marcel Broodthaers
Pier Paolo Calzolari
Cioni Carpi
Luciano Caruso
Sylvano Bussotti
Giuseppe Chiari
Tullio Catalano
Cayc
Claudio Cintoli
Christo
James Coleman
Giusi Coppini
Roberto Cerbai
Marco Cordioli
Maria Teresa Corvino
Caum
Claudio Costa
Attila Csernik
Guido Corazziari
Feruccio De Filippi
Robin Crozier
Radomir Damnjanovic
Anne Darboven [sic]
Henry Dale
Giuliano Della Casa
Andrea Daninos
Gino de Dominicis
Branco Dimitrijevic
Nusa & Sreco Dragan
Herman de Vries
Paolo de Manincor
Antonio Dias
Wilfried Doerstel
Herbert Distel
Goran Djordjevic
Michele de Lucchi
Audrey Flack
Luciano Fabro
File
G. Fonio & P.L. Paolillo
Terry Fox
Joel Fremiot
Stano Filko
Hervé Fischer
Peter Finch
Hreinn Fridfinnsson
Andrea Granchi
Joseph Figueras
John Furnival
Bruno Gambone
Phil Glass
Paul Armand Gette
Zvi Goldstein
Jochen Gerz
Gilbert & George
Sigurdur Gudmundsson
Kristjan Gudmundsson
Groupe Ecart
Dan Graham
Milan Grygar
Lee Guen-Young
Groupe 70: Martin Miguel / Max Charuolen / Serge Maccaferri
Klaus Groh
John Hillard
Allan V. Harrison
Joseph Iglesias del Marquet
Hans Haacke
Alessandro Jasci
Christian Jaccard
Françoise Jannicot
Ray Johnson
Sture Johanesson
Joan Jonas
Allan Kaprow
Donald Karshan
Zdristan Jurkiewicz
Sasa Katamanova & J.H. Kocman
Hans W. Kalkmann
Per Kirkeby
Lazlo Kerekes
Annalies Klophaus
Joseph Kosuth
Richard Kostelanetz’s
Christof Kohlhöfer
Jannis Kounellis
Ketty LaRocca
Dick Landry
Auro Lecci
Ugo La Pietra
Jean le Gac
Andrea Lemmi
Sol LeWitt
Richard Long
Les Levine
Urs Lüthi
Sergio Lombardo
Inge Mahn
Robert Mangold
Maier AichenElio Marchegiani
Jean Claude Marquette
Stelio Maria Martini
Plinio Martelli
Paolo Masi
Slavko Matkovic
Eliseo Mattiacci
Mario Merz
Fabio Mauri
Albert Mayr
Edwind Morgan
Dora Maurer
Alberto Moretti
N.O. Mustill
Brenda Miller
Ito Motoyuki
Monique Nahas & Hervé Huitric
Massimo Nannucci
Maurizio Nannucci
Roman Opalka
Tomas Nillg [sic]
Dennis Oppenheim
Luigi Ontani
Claudio Parmiggiani
Charlemagne Palestine
Luca Patella
Giulio Paolini
Mario Poggiali
Andrzej Piergalski
Giuseppe Penone
Gianni Pettena
Miro Polacci
Alberto Pirelli
Josep Ponsati
Vettor Pisani
Edith Revai
Karina Raeck
Renato Ranaldi
Arnulf Rainer
Alan Riddel
Sue & Clive Robertson
Dorothe Rockburne
Gianni Ruffi
Fried Rosenstock
Edward Ruscha
Franca Sacchi
Sarkis
Lucas Samaras
Pedrac Sidjanin
Fulvio Salvadori
Salvo
Richard Serra
Fritz Schwegler
Frank Smith
Kishio Suga
Landfried Schöpfer
Alan Sondheim
Enzo Stella
Klaus Staeck
Petr Stembera
Superstudio
Jan Steklik
Nikola Stojanovic
Balint Szombathy
Shohachiro Takahashi
Paul Thek
Team A3
Tobas
Mikoljub Todorovic
Richard Tuttle
Jerzy Trelinski
Vittorio Tolu
Biljana Tomic
Rasa Todosijevic
Fernando Tonello
Endre Tót
U.F.O.
Jacqueline Urban Nicaud
Timm Ulrichs
Janos Urban
Franco Vaccari
Willy Vazan
Jiri Valoch
Ben Vautier
Luca Venturi
Jürgen Vogdt
Bernard Venet
Edgardo Antonio Vigo
Wolf Vostell
Dorothee Von Windheim
Lawrence Weiner
May Wilson
Paul Wordow
William Wegman
Antonio Ximenez
Orest Zagoricnik
Michele Zaza
Jacob Zekveld
Nicholas Zurbrugg
Gilberto Zorio

ERIC ANDERSEN, For Your Comfort, 1980

ERIC ANDERSEN, For Your Comfort, 1980
21 x 4 cm
booklet, 34 pp., spiral binding, loose label as issued
edition 40
signed
published by Edition Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany
condition: top page very lightly yellowed
€ 340,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.EAnd 925

This edition is part of a special Hundertmark Edition Box with works of 23 artists Armin Hundertmark worked with. The artists contributed to this box on behalf of the 10th anniversary of the publisher and gallerist Hundertmark.
Eric Andersen thought it appropriate to give the owner of the box to tear a page out of his booklet for having it glued to another contribution. The tab reads: ‘FOR YOUR COMFORT. Glue on this art-collection-tab any art-work from the also enclosed 10th anniversary Hundertmark Edition box.’

Participating artists:
ERIC ANDERSEN, “For your comfort”
, a small spiral booklet with texts and a note enclosed: “signature for the 10th anniversary hundertmark edition, eric andersen.”
JOSEPH BEUYS, “Aufruf zur Alternative”, 
Frankfurter Rundschau from 23.12.1978 with text of Beuys, stamped: “Wählt DIE GRÜNEN”, signed and numbered, a bronze sculpture, signed, 8.3 x 2.7 cm, a sawed tree trunk and the sawed place is sealed with wax again, signed, 18 x 1,6 cm.
BERNH. JOH. BLUME, 
a drawing, felt pen, signed and dated.
CLAUS BÖHMLER, “Aufzeichnungen, das Bild zum Ton vom Saxophon, Fixierung & Wiederholung von Zeit“,
 a photocopy and a tape cassette, titled, signed, dated and numbered.
GÜNTER BRUS, “JUBILÄUMSBLATT”, 
a pencil and colored drawing, signed and dated.
ROBERT FILLIOU, “The Eternal Network Presents: /MULTIPLE A EXEMPLAIRE UNIQUE…”, a green DIN-A5 index card, written and stamped, signed, dated and numbered.
JOCHEN GERZ, “Kein Wort mehr über Pyramiden & Maßstäbe / die Pyramiden standen noch was rum, als wollen sie was fragen”
, brown color and text on cardboard, signed, dated and numbered.
TAKA IIMURA, “SELF IDENTIY 1 (1974)”, a video score, color photo on a photocopy, signed, dated and numbered.
DIETMAR KIRVES, “Ansichten”
, a photo collage, signed and dated.
MILAN KNIZAK
A, spray picture, collage, signed.
ALISON KNOWLES, “BEANS PROMOTE DREAMING”, 
a biscuit with a baked strips of text, signed.
BORIS LURIE, “NEIN”, aA stenciled picture, signed and numbered.
HERMANN NITSCH
, plaster, collage, signed and dated.
ARNULF RAINER, “Als Toter im Atelierschmutz”, 
photo, signed and dated.
GERHARD RÜHM
, Letter collage, signed, dated and numbered.
TAKAKO SAITO, “Fortune”, 
a plastic bag with salt and a crystal ball, signed.
KONRAD BALDER SCHÄUFFELEN, “L´usage des Cailloux”
An Isa-stone with the word cloud on it, into a wooden box, signed, dated and numbered.
TOMAS SCHMIT, “drei striche”, dDrawings, signed, dated and numbered.
DOMINIK STEIGER,”Hi – fi, Low nose”, 
a tape cassette, signed, dated and numbered.
FRITZ SCHWEGLER, “für FÜNF MÄHENDE WEHEN am Pfaffenwald”, 
a drawing, signed and dated.
JIRI VALOCH, “eye piece”, 
Abraisons letters on cardboard, signed, dated and numbered.
BEN VAUTIER, “Ink Stamp 1958“
, ink spots on blotting paper, signed, dated and numbered.
STEFAN WEWERKA
A Lithograph, signed, dated and numbered.

Edition of 40 copies
box size: 36 x 40 x 6 cm

 

AKI-Fluxfest, 1981 [poster]

AKI-Fluxfest, 1981
49.4 x 33.5 cm
screen print on paper, poster folded as mailed (17 x 24.8 cm)
condition: reasonable, tear lower left, missing chip of paper
rare
inv.Fluxus 687

 

Peter van Beveren and Harry Ruhé invited Fluxus artists to participate in a Fluxus Festival at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede in The Netherlands. Participating artists were Eric Andersen, Giuseppe Chiari, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Bob Lens, Wim T. Schippers, Takako Saito, Ludwig Gosewitz, Milan Knizak and Mischa Mengelberg. The director Sipke Huismans of the AKI gave carte blanche to the two curators. Van Beveren and Ruhé managed nine artists to come over for five days to this Fluxus event, namely Eric Andersen, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Bob Lens, Wim T. Schippers, Takako Saito, Ludwig Gosewitz, Milan Knizak and Mischa Mengelberg. Every artist got a fee of Dfl. 3.000,- (“It is about time that artists should be properly paid…’). In the end the AKI almost went bankrupt caused by the high bills of hotel, dinner and free booze, trip and traveling costs.

ERIC ANDERSEN, 10 times of Finish It, 1970

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ERIC ANDERSEN, 10 times of Finish It, 1970
ca 42 x 12,5 x 12,5 cm
spirit duplicator print in purple and black, red biro ink, paper bag
edition unknown
published by the artist

 

 

Eric Andersen’s works and performances often invite the public to participate. Also in his installations the public may be prompted to contribute.

 

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ERIC ANDERSEN, Tape Piece, [part of Fourre-Tout, No. 3, 1968]

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ERIC ANDERSEN, Tape Piece, [1968]
three printed cards each 3 x 10,6 cm + piece from audio cassette tap in cellophane bag as published
this object is part of Ben Vautier’s magazine Fourre-Tout No. 3
edition 100 + 1 glass bottle with original manuscripts
published by Ben Vautier, Nice, France
Ref. Ben Vautier: Fourre-Tout No. 3, 1968
inv. BVau 220

BEN VAUTIER, Fourre-Tout No. 3, 1968 [magazine]

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BEN VAUTIER, Fourre-Tout No. 3, 1968
CONTENU DE L’ENVELOPPE
18,9 x 17,4 cm
includes all objects, as issued
printed matter and objects in plastic envelope with hand numbered sticker
stamp numbered, here number 00016
6 parts and 1 printed list of contents with felt pen hand drawing of a bocal
edition 100
not available anymore

In an accompanying text of this issue it is announced by Ben and Annie (Noël) that “Fourre-tout” number 3 will be the last one. It is explained that ‘The content of this jar is learning us to admit everything. It reads the idea through the object.’
Issues number 1 and 2 were published in 1967 in an edition 250 each. A copy of issue number 3 is in the collection of the MoMA in New York, USA. The museum has one of the 100 glass jars in its collection that accompanies this periodical with an edition of 100 (+ 1 larger ‘jar’ with original manuscripts), although archived separately from its publication.

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Complete content of original plastic envelope “Contenu de l’enveloppe”:
KEN FRIEDMAN – print with ink stamped text: Friedman’zart
HENRY FLYNT – print: Overthrow the Human Race!!
BEN VAUTIER – cut page with pencil drawn circles (recto verso) from paperback book
BEN VAUTIER – punched postcard called There might be an aeroplane in the sky of this tiny postcard
ERIC ANDERSSON [sic]Tape piece, 3 tiny cards with texts/instruction + loose piece of tape
BEN VAUTIER/GEORGE MACIUNAS ? – small Fluxus bag with paste called A medicine for the asthma of Maciunas

Nota bene: This issue No. 3 is complete, although a glass jar the index is referring to as CONTENU DU BOCAL is lacking.

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Extra information
Copy edition number 40/100 in the collection of the MoMa, New York. The glass jar with cork that is part of the publication has been archived by the museum separately.

BEN VAUTIER, Fourre-Tout, No. 3, 1968
glass jar, label, felt-tip pen ink, cork, various objects
10,2 x 5,1 cm
being part of periodical
published by Ben and Anne Vautier
Collection MoMA, New York, USA

ERIC ANDERSEN, Opus 36, n.d. [1965]

ERIC ANDERSEN, Opus 36, n.d. [ca 1965]
13,5 x 19,4 cm
text, selfpublished stencil
edition unknown
Collection Kees van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.EAnd 927

text:
Write two exactly identical envelopes to me and place with tape the right amount in coins instead of stamps. Then put the one into the other and send the letter to me. If I get the letter I will maybe be able to see the exact difference between these two envelopes, and, maybe I will have a useful relationship. And maybe I will be a clever boy. And I will be a happy boy.
eric andersen, vangede bygade 9, gentofte, copenhagen.