MARC BAUER, Untitled, 2013 [shopping paper bag]

MARC BAUER, Untiled, 2013
paper bag
signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland                            € 100,-   January 2013

Marc Bauer lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. His drawings, installations and videos suggest a mix of childhood memories and fantasies that repeatedly transgress taboos. His works unsettle a traditional understanding of morality. The lines in his drawings are so out of focus, in fact, that here and there they barely give shape and definition, blending and dissolving often into a mist of gray. With all their blurring and smudging, his drawings seem to emulate painting. In this, technically, Marc Bauer plots a new twist in the classical story of drawing versus painting. Here butterflies are symbolizing freedom or innocence, yet this depicted beauty of nature is paradoxically put in order and apparently framed.

PETRIT HALILAJ, Poisened by men in need of some love, 2013

PETRIT HALILAJ, Poisened by men in need of some love, 2013
color photo, semi-transparant envelope
series of 1 (+ 1AP) of 80 different color photographic
signed
published by Wiels, Brussels, Belgium              € 200,-    December 2013

color photo in semi-transparant envelope (verso):

 

 

 

Singular photos in edition of 1 (+1AP) unique series of 80 photographs that are reproductions of images found in the archive of the former Museum of Natural History in Kosovo.

 

 

 

Examples of unique series of 80 photographs:

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
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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