MICHAEL ASHER, Série de 16 cartes postales de Michael Asher, 1991
each 15 x 10,5 cm
offset, stack of 16 post cards, vintage envelope
condition: verso slightly aged
published by Le Consortium, Dijon, France
€ 440,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MAsh 000
Michael Asher is known for the so-called “Situational Aesthetics”, a movement in Conceptual art that is critical on what defines art and on the production of commodities. Marcel Duchamp pointed out to a paradigm in the arts by inserting an already made object within an art context. It exposed the legitimising function of an institution and its crucial role in defining of what should be considered as art.
3 cards out of this set of 16:
History of price:
Antiquarian Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2023 € 400,-
Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Brussels, Belgium, 21 June 2022 € 650,-
DAAN VAN GOLDEN, untitled / Souvenir, 2017
3 parts
screen print on fabric: 10,5 x 12,9 cm / gold envelope: 11 x 15,6 cm
condition: splendid
condition outer envelope “Souvenir”: smudged, verso crumpled
private collection
inv.DvG 000-pr
This gold envelope with screen print on vinyl cloth depicts a characteristic dark red Daisy pattern that Daan van Golden often uses in his paintings and photographs. There is no sign of origin.
A white outer envelope entitled “Souvenir” contains the edition. At the back side a ‘D’ in print refers to the first name of the artist. The envelope’s colour in gold alludes with the surname of Daan van Golden. The grey line frame on the white envelope suggests that this item was perhaps a thank object presented to people for their compassion, condolences and sympathy after Daan van Golden deceased in 2017. Both envelopes lack any form of origin of publication.
Outer envelope
12 x 18,1 cm
conditio: scuffing, stains, crumpled on left side
recto: text “Souvenir”, verso initial “D” – both in screen print
DOROTHY IANNONE, Put Out The Light, 2022
3 x 29 x 6 cm
cardboard XXL box, matches
edition 500
mint
published by We Do Not Work Alone, Paris, France
inv.IDor 000-000
“Put out the light” is the last edition Iannone Dorothy made before she died in december 2022 at the age of 89. Dorothy became well-known with what she called “ecstatic unity” that referred to erotic and sexual explorations featured in many of her works. In “An Icelandic Saga” she describes a trip made in the late sixties to Reykjavik in Iceland, with her then American husband James Upham. There she met and fell madly in love with Swiss Fluxus artist Dieter Roth.
GALERIE VAN GELDER Bericht 1, 1992
29,7 x 21 cm
photo copy, vintage
edition ca 35
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.GvG 000
This is the first newsletter of Galerie van Gelder issued in the beginning of June 1992. It announces the gallery’s participation of Art Basel ’92, being a co-operation of five galleries. This was initiated by John M Armleder who also coined the name “Associated Publishers”. For that he designed a logo “AP” that was supposed to promote a co-operation of publishers in Geneva, Cologne, Amsterdam and New York. An edition “AP” was made by galerie van Gelder Editions on an enamel door plate. The image depicts the letters AP inside a tumbled zero.
LUIS CRUZ AZACETA, invitation card, 1996
17,8 x 17,8 cm, unfolded 70,6 cm long
3 fold leaflet, offset, 8 pp.
text by Tina Yapelli
splendid condition
published by San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
€ 185,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.LCAz 000-pr
Tina Yapelli: ‘Luis Cruz Azaceta paints his self-portrait repeatedly, in myriad guises and conditions. He intends that his visage becomes the face of Everyman, the typical human being…
ULAY/MARINA ABRAMOVIÇ, The Sun and the Moon, 1987
63,6 x 48,3 cm (folded 21.5 x 27.5 cm)
offset print on firm paper very rare
published by University of San Diego, San Diego, USA
€ 460,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MAbr 000-pr
SYLVIE FLEURY, Vital perfection, 1991
15,5 x 13 cm
SC, stapled, 12 pp., including inlay mint
published by Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn, Germany extremely rare in this condition
€ 420,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.SF 525-pr
This is the first catalogue of works by Sylvie Fleury. Shopping bag installation “It’s Clinique Bonus Time’ (1991) has been installed by her for a second time at Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam in 1992. She added some bags to it, including the shoppings from where she got the paper bags from in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, USA.
For some reason it is rarely mentioned that Fleury’s paper bag installations contain original shoppings of Sylvie Fleury. At the time she installed the piece she doubted to take her shoppings with her back home, since all these cloths were personal belongings that fitted her.
Apparently the list of exhibition venues in the biography was added to this publication after it was printed in 1991, since it states shows done in 1992. Or the publisher anticipated on the scheduled solo exhibition at Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam and a group exhibition at Galerie Gilbert Brownestone in Paris.
SYLVIE FLEURY, Formule One Dress, 1999
10,8 x 15,3 xcm
post card, offset
published by Hugo Boss, Metzingen, Germany
mint
€ 25,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.SF 466-pr
On behalf of edition One Formula Dress this post card was issued showing Sylvie Fleury with Formula One car driver Mika Häkkinen who became World Champion in 1998.
MIKE KELLEY, invite Replay: la sphere punk, 2006
21 x 8,5 cm
print on card
condition: splendid
published by Magasin-CNAC. Grenoble, France
inv.MKel 362-pr
CLAUDE CLOSKY, Concrete Poetry, 2021
18 x 11 cm
artist’s book, SC, 40 pp.
edition 300
condition: splendid
published by RRose Editions, La Rochelle, France
inv.CCl 000
