SYLVIE FLEURY
no title, 1993
100,5 x 70,5 cm
edition 200 of which 100 are signed, numbered and dated
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
mint
€ 300,- plus € 18,- registered mail
Galerie van Gelder Editions invites artists to come up with an idea for wrapping paper to be used in the gallery for wrapping sold art works.
History of prices:
Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden, Ahlden, Germany € 500,- 28 November 2020 (hammer price)
Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands € 95,- / Dfl. 200,- September 1993 (year of issue)
SYLVIE FLEURY, Slim-Fast / vanille, 1993
15 x 18 x 10 cm
screen print on wooden block
signed, numbered
edition 250
condition: very good
published by Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
€ 650,- plus € 28,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
A recurrent contamination of the masculine world and the feminine, of fashion and art or advertising is seen in the works of Sylvie Fleury. In the early nineties she showed in her first exhibition with John M Armleder and Olivier Mosset a pile of empty Coco Chanel boxes intuitively collected by her for years, because of its attractiveness as she once said. Her installations with shopping bags triggered people to call her the ‘Bag Lady’ at a certain point. Nowadays her work is described as political, but definitively her oeuvre does not lack a post-conceptual attitude at all. With the multiple ‘Slim-Fast’ she shows that the idea is very close to how the artist originally was attracted by the Coco Chanel mascara and perfume boxes, only now more rationally made with a tongue-in-cheek to Pop-art.
History of prices:
Piasa, Paris, France 27 September 2023 € 350 (hammer price)
Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria 10 October 2022 € 576,-
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland August 1993 SFr 500,-
SYLVIE FLEURY, The Art of Survival, 1993
27 x 21 cm, 72 pp.
artist’s magazine & catalogue, Lumbeck binding
edition unknown
published by Verlag Walther König, Cologne, Germany / Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
very good condition extremely rare
€ 420,- plus € 18,- registered mail
This is the first catalogue of Sylvie Fleury designed as if it is a fashion magazine. Due to its Lümbeck binding and aging of the glue almost all copies collapsed into a bunch of loose pages when used. Hence extremely rare.
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History of prices:
Booklooker, € 140,- November 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 688.- October 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 822.- 28 May 2021
Amazon-UK, GBP 590.12 21 April 2020
Amazon-USA, US$ 794.- 19 December 2017
AP, 1993-1994
enamel door sign (name plate)
22,7 x 16,2 cm, edition 6 + 2 AP
signed, numbered, dated
published by GALERIE VAN GELDER EDITIONS, Amsterdam
€ 3.400,-
* John M Armleder made this logo composed of two letters inside a tumbled zero for AP Magazine published by Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam. Each copy was supposed to have a glued sticker with this logo on the cover. The first and only issue has contributions of John Tremblay, Claude Closky, Sylvie Fleury and Marijke van Warmerdam. A small edition was produced as an enamel door plate. Ever since a proof of this plate is mounted next to the entrance of Galerie van Gelder. For the Basel Art Fair 1992 he initiated a co-operation called ‘AP / Associated Publishers Ecart Editions’ with the following galleries:
La Ligne d’Arrivée, 1993
21 x 9,7 cm
‘Plat du Jour’ voucher of 200 FFrs
edition of 100
signed, numbered, dated
rare
€ 185,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
‘La Ligne d’Arrivée’ was a restaurant opposite Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie in Paris. The voucher – here unused – could be validated by dining at the restaurant. Only ca 30 have been signed by the artist and very few have been issued, because soon the restaurant closed its doors.
History of prices:
€ 125,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam December 2011
€ 150,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam June 2016
SYLVIE FLEURY, Vital Perfection, 1993
9,3 x 27,8 x 17 cm
faux fur-lined cardboard shoe box, printed in gold on lid
Dimensions overall: 3 3/4 x 10 15/16 x 6 5/8″ (9.5 x 27.8 x 16.8 cm) signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Hervé Mikaeloff, Paris, France
pristine condition extremely rare in this condition, i.e. no discolouring
€ 2.450,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail, Margin Scheme
Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU Sylvie Fleury
Collection MOMA, New York, USA Sylvie Fleury
ANNA and BERNHARD JOHANNES BLUME, Ideoplastie [Aktionsvase], 1993
29 x 12 x 12 cm
vase, ceramics with baked in text
edition 50
signed, numbered
mint, with original wrapping
produced by Kölnischen Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
€ 600,- plus Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.A&B 01-pr
Fluxus – In the spirit of Fluxus, 1993
31,5 x 44,5 x 9 cm
briefcase with catalogues, posters, pencil, buttons and other objects
1st edition 100
published by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
not available
– Exhibition catalogue “In the Spirit of Fluxus”
– J. Berner, “Cosmic inventory kit”
– G. Brecht, “Drip music”
– “Solo for violin”
– G. Chiari, “Art is easy”
– Orange brooch and blue card
– H. Flynt, “Demolish serius culture”, Green brooch and orange card
– “Art you can lick”, Yellow brooch and yellow card
– G. Hendricks,”Picnic garbage placemat”
– L. Miller, “Flux Box. Do-it-yourself. Excellent 92”
– B. Moore, “Flux Tellus” No. FXCM0076
– G. Maciunas,”Fluxus Chairman”, 1976
– Y. Ono, “Y. O. (1964-1965). Frame enlargement”
– M. Shiomi, “Water Music”
– B. Vautier, “T-shirt printed”
– R. Watts, “Stamp”
– “Fluxus concerned white insignificances”, rubber stamp, 7 x 32 x 4 cm
Fluxus – In the spirit of Fluxus, 1993-1995
31,5 x 44,5 x 9 cm
briefcase with catalogues, posters, pencil, buttons and other objects
2nd edition 50
‘U 40 drop cloth’, 1992
ca 30 x 30 cm
each piece is unique, edition of 106
dripping paint on cloth, pizza box, label on lid
signed, dated
€ 450,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
produced by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam
This is a series of unique ‘Drop cloths’ John Armleder has made on cotton. While preparing his solo exhibition in the Centraal Museum Utrecht in 1992 creating a large three panel ‘Pour Painting’ of 3 x 6 meters. After having finished the huge painting the poured over piece of cotton was one big left-over, which was eventually cut into 105 pieces, still wet and very smelly. The 106th piece appeared to be a real left-over as it is shaped in the form of a very long stretched out triangle. The artist folded this one zigzagging into the last pizza box. The code ‘U 40′ refers to the forty paintings he showed in the museum. On the pizza box is a large red sticker ‘U 40 Drop Cloth’ with artist’ name and date. All are signed on the inside of the box. Some of the works are signed on the cloth itself as well as on the box. The edition has not been numbered.
Note: in 1993 the Wiener Secession in Vienna produced a second drop cloth edition, smaller in size and on coloured fabric with a label on the inside of each pizza box.
JOHN M ARMLEDER, Ardor, 1992
height 6 cm, Ø 19,5 cm
electric heater, plug-in electricity cable, cardboard box, label
signed, numbered
edition 12
published by Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
Foto: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
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