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RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Feuerchen!, 2011

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RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Feuerchen!, 2011
chipboard, paint
various sizes between ca 20 x 29 x 1,8 cm – ca. 35 x 67 x 1,8 cm
series of 30 unique objects
published by Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
sold

Feuerchen! (trans. “Little fire!”) is a sculpture by Ragnar Kjartansson that resembles a prop from a performance. Like much of Kjartansson’s work, this piece blends a cliché image and drama or aesthetics and emblemata. Ragnar Kjartansson’s tragicomic performances take on the boundaries between art and life, fiction and reality. His work is often about the nature of art, addressing our romantic mythology of the artist as mysterious, elevated or bohemian.

History of prices:
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany   € 500,- June 2012
Galleri i8, Reykjavík, Iceland     US$ 3,500.- Januari 2018

SARAH MORRIS, Marcel Gem [Clip], 2011

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SARAH MORRIS, Marcel Gem [Clip], 2011
23.6 x 23.6 inches
screenprint
edition 60
produced by White Cube, London, UK

This print is based on a painting from the artist’s Clips series in which she has used the motifs of standard office stationary, in particular the paper clip, to make abstract and complex images using a bold palette of colours.

History of price:
White Cube, London GBP 1,200.- December 2012

ROMAN OPALKA, 5607249, 2011

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ROMAN OPALKA, 5607249, 2012
Last number Roman Opalka (August 27, 1931 – August 6, 2011) wrote down on his last canvas. Not really a multiple, although an idea about repetition by counting up figures for a whole life time until time ends.

Opałka began painting numbers from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist called a ‘detail’, took up counting where the last left off. Each ‘detail’ is the same size 196 x 135 cm, the dimension of his studio door in Warsaw.

LOUISE LAWLER, Adjusted to fit, 2011 [matchbox]

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LOUISE LAWLER, Adjusted to fit, 2011
each 0,9 x 5,6 x 3,6 cm
set of 9 matchboxes
edition unknown
mint
published by Metro Pictures, New York, Sprueth Magers, London and Yvon Lambert, Paris
rare
complete set: € 350,- plus € 16,- Track & Trace registered mail

 

In Louise Lawler’s photographs the context is her field of interest in which works of art are displayed, viewed, sold, and also stored in museums, private collections and auction houses. She is questioning the art practice in general, but at the same time she knows she is unavoidably part of this when she exhibits herself works of her own art. That demands self-criticism or at least a display consciousness. Most probably this brought her to have her huge photo prints matching exhibition walls, i.e. vinyl murals that are stretched and adjusted to fit the gallery walls. No wonder she called these exhibitions “Adjusted to fit”.

Listen also to: Louise Lawler, Birdcalls

HENK PEETERS, Echt = Henk Peeters, 2011

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HENK PEETERS, Echt = Henk Peeters, 2011
23 x 18 cm
hand written text on sewn facsimile catalogue “Henk Peeters”
signed, dated
edition 25
€ 420,- plus registered mail





Henk Peeters added the text ‘ECHT =” on 25 catalogues printed in facsimile and signed them. It is a ZERO / Nul catalogus from 1964 of which the pages have been sewn together on a sewing machine. It has a shape of a half circle following the outline of the depicted zero on the cover. Together with the other half on the back of the booklet showing the same outline te action forms a whole zero.
inv.HP 346

Ref. press release GEM, The Hague, Netherlands