SOPHIE NYS, Catalogue Version VI, 2012
21 x 14,9 cm
offset book, 392 pp.
signed, numbered
edition 20
mint rare
published by Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
€ 420,- + € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mailregistered mail
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Here Sophie Nys is interested in art history, history of philosophy and in figures of historical importance. This eclecticism in a more broad sense is found in her work in the form of thematic declinations and variations. Her approach is based on research and free associations as soon as she bumps up to a subject of her interest. There is no steady theme and in that sense she could be characterised as an artist that, I would say, makes ‘Stumble-over art’, i.e. art based on something that struck the artist’s eye and is elaborated into an artistic form. Most of the time putting the emphasis on the idea, avoiding too much colour or other esthetic seduction. An attitude that is comparable to works of Jonathan Monk, David Horvitz, Yann Sérandour and others. KvG
The volume ‘Catalogue Version VI’ is the complete version of a work in VI parts initiated in August 2001 and depicts hundreds of pages of photographed art works in museums and galleries, together with their name plates and descriptions.
JOHN BOCK, Ohne Titel, 2012
ca 235 × 43 x 65 cm
various bike parts assembled
unique series of 4
signed, numbered
published by NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
History of price:
NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany – December 2012 € 6.200,-
BEN VAUTIER, Attention travaux en cours, 2012
27 x 27,5 x 34,5 cm
printed texts on plastic file box, 4 drawers
published by Quo Vadis, Paris, France
History of price:
Quo Vadis, Paris, France € 50,- December 2012 (year of issue)
For a very short period a similar and more fancy version was offered for sale as featured below. It had white brims on the front side of each drawer. The inner part of the drawers were also white.
BEN VAUTIER Attention travaux en cours / Big Box Ben, 2012
27 x 27,5 x 34,5 cm
printed texts on plastic file box, 4 drawers
published by Quo Vadis, Paris, France
History of price:
Quo Vadis, Paris, France € 53,- November 2012 (year of issue)
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, Preparatory Drawings for Crystal of Resistance, 2012
35 x 51 cm
eighty-eight facsimiles in offset, three original drawings in variable sizes,
cardboard box, label, numbered by the artist, edition 29
published by Three Star Books, Paris, France
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This edition with unique preparatory drawings – not signed, though – is a follow-up to Crystal of Resistance, the artist’s large-scale work for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennial and one of the few artist’s notes which remained after the exhibition.
BEN VAUTIER, Écrire entre les lignes, ca 2012
plastic display for shop counter, 50 pens with 4 different sentences in print
Parker Guitars Vector
published by Parker Pen Company, Newhaven, East Sussex, UK extremely rare
pristine
€ 4.800,- + € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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A word, a thought or a slogan like ‘To write between the lines’ is in the art of Ben Vautier a trade mark for many years now. He is known for his performances, installations, his Fluxus shop in Nice and texts on paintings and objects. Writing his texts in white-on-black is his favorite activity. He calls his art Total Art.
Private entrepreneurs gladly make use of his tongue-in-cheek words. Here Parker Pen Company managed to make a deal with the artist concerning Ben Big Box products. This is definitely a sculpture and not so much a counter display for selling Parker pens.
CLAUDE CLOSKY, Dada DIY, 2012
chain 71 cm / letters 2 cm, box
mixed media
edition 100
published by Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
Claude Closky is known for making Appropriation art using advertising, fashion and commodity items. Making a fashionable bracelet and at the same time referring to a protest movement like Dada is a kind of double Appropriation art, i.e. a kind of contamination of Prada and Dada Do It Yourself. See also Jonathan Monk’s ‘Dada Necklace’ (2012) apparently has responded to this multiple.
History of prices:
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France € 80,- October 2012
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France € 100,- January 2013
Artspace, New York, USA € 312,- / US$ 400.- April 2013
JONATHAN MONK, Dada Necklace, 2012
MDF, brass plated steel chain, silver spray paint on cardboard
73 x 37 cm / 9,4 x 10,3 cm, chaîne: 90 cm
edition 100
produced by Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
With this piece it seems that Jonathan Monk responded to the Dada bracelet of his French collegue Claude Closky who is known for making Appropriation art using advertising, fashion and commodity items. Closky made a fashionable bracelet ‘Dada DIY’ referring to the protest movement Dada, as well as to a fashion brand like Prada, making his bracelet into a kind of double Appropriation art. Jonathan Monk is known for recycling ideas of established artists and probably in turn decided to make his own necklace out of the four letters with chain, as a triple appropriated art work.
History of prices:
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France € 150,- October 2012
