LIZ MAGIC LASER, We’re Looking For You, 2013 [tote bag]

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LIZ MAGIC LASER, We’re Looking For You, 2013
ca 61 x 25 x 12 cm (bag size: 34 x 25 x 12 cm)
screen print on tote bag
limited edition
published by The Armory Show, New York, USA

In August of 2012, The Armory Show invited Laser to serve as its commissioned artist. She accepted in October, agreeing to produce limited-edition artworks and to shape the visual identity of the fair through VIP cards, invitations, signage, Jack Spade tote bags, and employee T-shirts. Laser enlisted the help of market research analyst Ben Allen of Labrador Agency to conduct a series of focus groups with art consumers. She had The Armory Show invite members of the arts community—a range of collectors, curators, museum professionals, art advisors and critics—to participate in group discussions that would ultimately determine how she would lend her identity to The Armory Show. Laser conducted a series of six focus groups, each consisting of ten participants and lasting two hours. The first sessions in early November 2012 were devoted to “exploratory” market research in which participants were asked to characterize The Armory Show’s current status and the critical value of Laser’s work. They were then prompted to suggest how she might apply her artistic strategies most effectively to the fair. Based on feedback from the first sessions, Laser developed prototypes of art editions and visual motifs, which were “taste- tested” by later groups that convened in late November for what the artist deemed the “validation and refinement phase.” Laser’s video, The Armory Show Focus Group (2013), assembles the most useful viewpoints, culled from over twelve hours of focus group discussion footage

RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Think Piece, 2013

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RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Think Piece, 2013
ca 8 x 8 x 10 cm
English version: It is beautiful but sad to be a human being
ball of glass with text, red ribbon with text, cardboard box
Christmas ball in original silver coloured box with small booklets in English and Icelandic
signed in print
limited edition
€ 180,-

JONATHAN MONK, Soft Boiled Egg, 2013

JONATHAN MONK, Soft Boiled Egg, 2013
colour film; super 8, DVD
hand spray painted on top of cardboard box, signed, dated and numbered certificate
series of 10 unique films
published by CEC /Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland

not available

 

Each work ‘Soft Boiled Egg’ is unique, since its duration is related to the time of boiling the amount of eggs shown in each film. So edition 8/10 shows eight eggs boiling in a pan with water.

History of prices:
CEC, Geneva price in year of issue € 2.000,- / SFr 2.500,-

ROY LICHTENSTEIN, Dish Set, 1966 – 2013

ROY LICHTENSTEIN, Dish Set, 1966-2013
10.75″ dinner plate, 9″ salad plate, 6.5″ bread/butter plate, 8.5″ soup bowl and 6″ saucer
ceramics, 6 parts
edition unknown
published by Barneys, New York, USA
not available

This set is based on Lichtenstein’s Dishes that was published in 1966 in an edition of 800 and was available by mail order or at Leo Castelli Gallery, 4 East 77 Street, New York. Apart from the saucer the sizes of the plates of this re-make are slightly larger than the original, id est: dinner plate: 10.125″ diameter; salad plate: 6.25″ diameter; soup bowl: 8.125″ diameter; cup: 2.5″ x 3.25″ diameter (and saucer 6″ diameter).
Each dinner object of this 1966 edition is stamped “Jackson China for Durable Dish Co. by R. Lichtenstein © 1966″

History of prices:
Auction realized: $3,125.- May 6, 2012
Barneys, New York, USA each item between € 22-€ 206,- (US$ 25.- and $ 265.-) May 2013

YOKO ONO, Arising, 2013 [pebble]

YOKO ONO, Arising, 2013
4,5 x 4,5 x 4,5 cm
limestone pebble, cardboard box, printed text on lid
published on behalf of Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
mint
edition unknown
uncommon
€ 195,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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Yoko Ono made a call to women of all ages from around the world to send her their stories of how they had suffered simply because they were women, accompanied by a picture of their eyes. In this sense the “Arising” was a call expressed and visualized in Ono’s installation at the Venice Biennale in 2013. The pebble multiple “Arising” was issued on behalf of the Venice Biennale 2013.

YOKO ONO, Grow Love with Me, 2013

YOKO ONO, Grow Love with Me, 2013
height ca 10, diameter 6 cm
aluminium can with glued matte paper label, plastic lid, bean,
manual with growing instructions in 4 languages, colophon on label of Serpentine Gallery
initials in print
edition unknown
added: label Serpentine Gallery
published by Serpentine Gallery, London, England

This artwork consists of a ‘magic bean’, which when grown, reveals the word LOVE. Laser etched onto the seed by a patented process, the word first appears on the outer seed coat covering the inner cotyledon. Without coaxing, after a day or two the seed coat will fall away to reveal the word on the inner cotyledon. At first the inner cotyledon is yellow, but with the addition of sunlight quickly turns green. The seed then begins to splay open, shooting a leaf upward, bearing the same word LOVE.

 

 

Added label by Serpentine Gallery:

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KATE LEVANT, Untitled, 2013 [artist’s book]


KATE LEVANT, Untitled, 2013
19 x 14 cm
hand made artist’s book (nr 4/15), 16 pp., plasticized cover, hand written texts in pencil
(here including text of Leon Trotsky from 1924 and text of Kate Levant on ‘The malignant narcissist’)
edition 15
published by the artist, Amsterdam

 

 


 

 

KATE LEVANT, Untitled, 2013
19 x 14 cm
hand made artist’s book (nr 5/15), 12 pp. (sic), plasticized cover, hand written texts in pencil
(here including cover image and excluding 4 pages of texts by Leon Trotsky from 1924 and text of Kate Levant on ‘The malignant narcissist’)
edition 15
published by the artist, Amsterdam

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, Klak, Klak, Klak, 2012

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, Klak, Klak, Klak, 2012
37 x 28,1 cm / 14 9/16 x 11 1/16 inches
photogravure
edition 25
published by Graphic Studio, Tampa, USA
temporarely not available

Continuing his exploration of collage and the visualization of sound this print utilize imagery from Manga comics (originally published in Japan and translated for the US market) and onomatopoeic words. Since the late 1990s, Marclay has created “graphic” scores, non-traditional forms of notation, for improvisational interpretation by musicians and vocal performers.

History of prices:
Graphic Studio, Tampa, USA     € 2.900,- / $ 4,000.- July 2013