MATHIEU MERCIER, Dé, 2015

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MATHIEU MERCIER, Dé, 2015
41 x 41 x 3 cm
modified reflective road sign
verso signed, numbered
edition 24 + 6 AP
published by More Publishers, Brussels, Belgium

 

Design is a central theme in Mercier‘s work. Ordinary objects designed with the ambition to be modern are subject to his appropriating way of working. His arrangements of objects and interventions make reference to modernity and post-modernity. Shop culture and high culture converge in his works and presented in a museum or gallery context a certain estrangement is created. He combines ‘non-art’ materials of common household objects with art historical references by making use of e.g. the primary colours Mondrian used.

In a three-dimensional dice is depicted on a reflective road sign combining circle, cube and dots. It may be looked at as a ‘non-art’ material that has the aura of modernity or contemporary art.

 

History of prices:
More Publishers, Brussels, April 2020 € 550,-

GLENN LIGON, I Am Somebody, 2015 [Tote bag]

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GLENN LIGON, I Am Somebody, 2015
ca 48 x 48 x 26 cm
Tote bag with inner large purse, tag
edition unknown
published by The Studio Museum Harlem / MZ Wallace, New York, USA
mint condition
very rare
€ 785,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.GLig 000

 

Glenn Ligon used the print Untitled (I Am Somebody)for this object, having it placed on an MZ Wallace Metro Tote bag.

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JAN KÄMMERLING, Greetings!, 2015

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JAN KÄMMERLING, Greetings!, 2015
ca 20 x 18 x 1,5 cm
paint, cut postcard
series of 3 unique postcards
published by the artist

For a group exhibition in Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam in 2015 named ‘Postcards are to be looked at’ Jan Kämmerling made a series of three unique wall sculpture made by postcards.

 
 
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JONATHAN MONK, Hand Painted by Hand, 2015

JONATHAN MONK, Hand Painted by Hand, 2015
26,7 x 19 cm
gouache on digital photographic fiber based matt paper
unique hand painted series of 25, here number 3/25
pristine condition, with waves in paper as issued
published by Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
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available at publisher

This edition shows the hand from Bas Jan Ader’s work I’m Too Sad to Tell You, with the background painted by hand by Jonathan Monk. The latter is known for emphasizing the simplicity inherently present in a working plan like painting a background of a hand by his hand. Any subject is allowed as long as the obvious can be banally pushed further: “… Once something has been done, it can be done again in a different colour.” By means of doubling and repeating the result has most of the time the effect of a Fluxus-like humor.

Together with artists like Yann Sérandour, Claude Closky, Nicolas Chardon, Martin Creed a.o. Jonathan Monk belongs to a generation that is – apparently being impressed by historical mile stones – making use of references to works of famous colleagues in the past.

YOKO ONO, Mended Cups and Unbroken Cup, 2015

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YOKO ONO, Mended Cups and Unbroken Cup, 2015
17 x 29 x 29 cm
print on ceramics, 14 parts in display box, leaflet, tag, folded poster
published by Illy Art Collection, Italy
Collection Kees van Gelder, Amsterdam
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“Mended Cups and Unbroken Cup” consists of six cups that bear gold, ‘shattered’ and ‘mended’ crack lines – accompanied by six individual saucers that state, in Yoko Ono’s handwriting, six catastrophic events that have affected the world; some have directly affected her life, and others only indirectly, yet bringing death to millions of people. Each saucer states the date and place of the tragic event. Why and how the tragic events have been “mended” is unclear….

The seventh cup in the collection, ‘Unbroken Cup’, is untouched with no cracked or mended lines, reflecting peace and hope with Ono’s handwritten words on the saucer, Yoko Ono: “This cup will never be broken as it will be under your protection.”

 

 

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JONATHAN MONK, Finger Food, 2014

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JONATHAN MONK, Finger Food, 2014
diameter 11 inches
series of 9 different colours
edition 10 (each colour)
signed, numbered on certificate
published by Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
€ 1.050,- plus € 24,- registered mail

 

Jonathan Monk says about choices: ‘Once something has been done, it can be done again in a different colour.’ This certainly is again executed in his ‘Finger Food’ edition of dinner plates. A series of off-white ceramic dinner plates, each with two glazed thumb prints on the top and the remaining eight finger prints on the bottom side is produced in nine colours and are sold individually in red, rose, pink, black, grey, blue, dark blue, violet and light green.