GLENN LIGON, Untitled (Barber shop), 2009
48 x 33 cm
offset print; street poster
unsigned, numbered
splendid condition
€ 900,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
Originally this poster was clandestinely distributed on the streets in Toronto. It found audiences by chance, provoking questions and reactions, with no didactic component to the street campaign.
Glenn Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s with conceptually based work that investigates the social, linguistic, and political constructions of race, gender, and sexuality.
History of prices:
Swann Galleries, New York, USA US$ 2,500.- 14 June 2016 (hammer price)
Swann Galleries, New York, USA US$ 2,000.- 14 June 2012 (hammer price)
Circle Jerk, 2009
63 x 46 cm / size of each poster: 48 x 33 cm
16 offset posters in cardboard portfolio with handle
all posters signed, numbered
edition 50 + ca 10 AP, here AP
published by Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
mint condition
€ 4.200,- plus € 24,- courier costs
inv.Circ 213
As the name implies Circle Jerk is an ad hoc group of queer artists lending each other a hand. What began in 2007 with an original group of 13 artists has grown to 16 participants. There is no specific curatorial premise, although the posters were clandestinely distributed on the streets to coincide with Art Toronto 2009 in late October. The posters found an audience by chance, provoking questions or reactions. A signed, limited edition was a fundraiser for Art Metropole. The set is packaged in a custom-made portfolio carrying case printed with artists’ names and the title “Circle Jerk 2009” displayed in pink text. The edition has been produced in a very limited quantity of 50 sets of all 16 posters, full colour offset printed, signed and numbered.
Participating artists include:
Andy Fabo
Brendan Fernandes
Bruce LaBruce
John Greyson
Daryl Vocat
Glenn Ligon
Stephen Andrews
Luis Jacob
David Altmejd
Chris Curreri
John McLachlin
Micah Lexier
Peter Kingstone
Will Munro
Ed Pien
and David Grenier
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
rare
€ 550,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
Glenn Ligon used the print Untitled (I Am Somebody)for this object, having it placed on an MZ Wallace Metro Tote bag.
GLENN LIGON and others, part of Circle Jerk, Toronto, 2009
each 33 x 48 cm / 48 x 33 cm
16 posters, full colour offset, cardboard folder
signed & numbered
edition of 50
€ 4.400,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered mail
Glenn Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s with conceptually based work that investigates the social, linguistic, and political constructions of race, gender, and sexuality. Originally, the posters were clandestinely distributed on the streets. The posters found audiences by chance, provoking questions or reactions, with no didactic component to the street campaign.
LIMITED EDITION
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CIRCLE JERK: 16 artists, 16 posters |
As the name implies Circle Jerk is an ad hoc group of queer artists lending each other a hand. What began in 2007 with an original group of 13 artists has grown to 16 participants. Each artist has contributed a work from their current production. There is no specific curatorial premise; nonetheless the works connect with a shared attitude.Participating artists include Andy Fabo, Brendan Fernandes, Bruce LaBruce,
John Greyson, Daryl Vocat, Glenn Ligon, Stephen Andrews, Luis Jacob,
David Altmejd, Chris Curreri, John McLachlin, Micah Lexier, Peter Kingstone,
Will Munro, Ed Pien, and David Grenier.The posters were clandestinely distributed on the streets to coincide with
Art Toronto 2009 in late October. There is no didactic component to the street campaign. The posters found an audience by chance, provoking questions or reactions. A signed, limited edition was a fundraiser for Art Metropole. The set is packaged in a custom-made portfolio carrying case printed with artists’ names and the title “Circle Jerk 2009” displayed in pink text. The edition has been produced in a very limited quantity of 50 sets of all 16 posters, full colour offset printed, signed and numbered. |
GLENN LIGON,’2000-2009′, 2011
Epson Ultra Chrome K3 print on Museo Max 365 GSM paper
76,2 x 56 cm / 22 x 30 inch
edition of 30 + 5 AP + 5 PP
sold
History of prices offered and determined by:
LACMA, Los Angeles € 3200,- / US$ 4000.- (members US$ 3600.-) June 2012
Over the last three decades, Glenn Ligon has produced a substantial body of work engaged, as one critic has succinctly noted, with the “presence of the past in the present.” In this print Glenn Ligon has layered the figures of the years ten on top of each other.
Ligon draws from the aesthetic language and formalism of minimalism and the textual and philosophical modes of conceptual art, and enriches this all through his formative engagement with the modes of cultural studies and critical theory that have gained prominence since the 1980s.
GLENN LIGON, I Am A Man, 2011
25 1/2 x 14 x 3 1/2 inches / bag itself approx. 14″x16″
tote bag
published by Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
p.o.r.
In 1968, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, hundreds of black sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. Famously, they carried signs reading, “I AM A MAN”. This statement “I AM A MAN” started out as an exasperated cry from an oppressed minority to be treated as human. The posters were carried by the workers on strike that drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tennessee the first week of April 1968. After King’s assassination later that week, the poster became a nationally recognized symbol of the struggle for equality and humanity. Twenty years later, Ligon replicated those signs in his painting Untitled, 1988. Working through the legacy of the civil rights movement he has found his artistic voice: this was one of Ligon’s earliest paintings to include appropriated text, an exploration that continues to this day.