AI WEIWEI, To Fight with Crossed Arms, 2007
50,8 cm x 25,4 cm / 20 in x 10 inches
four C-prints, each print verso numbered in ink
edition 18 + 4 AP
estimate US$ 18,000 – US$ 22,000 December 2012
Artsation, Munich, Germany € 28.500,- August 2013
“To fight with Crossed Arms” is a series of 4 photographs and one of the many collaborations between Ai Weiwei and the MAP Office*. With this work the collective intended to engage Ai Wei Wei in a conversation about one of his architectural projects by challenging him to pick up a brick and pose “holding a brick”, “showing a brick”, “throwing a brick” and “putting a brick on the head”. Four positions assumed by Wei Wei: the architect, the curator, the critic, the artist and presented as an allegory.
* MAP Office is a multidisciplinary platform devised by Laurent Gutierrez (born 1966, Casablanca, Monaco) and Valérie Portefaix (born 1969, Saint-Etienne, France). This duo of artists/architects has been based in Hong Kong since 1996. Their entire project forms a critique of spatio-temporal anomalies and documents how human beings subvert and appropriate space, humour, games and fiction are usually part of their approach.
MIKE KELLEY, My Little Friend Doll, 2007
43 x 30 x 16,5 cm / 17 x 11 x 6.5 inches
fake fur, felt, plastic, speaking device, original cardboard box
covered in blue plush with plastic eyes, felt hands & feet
edition of 800
pristine condition
published by Whitney Museum, New York, USA
€ 3.500,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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This plush toy has a startling characteristic. Like many plush toys, when you squeeze their belly they speak, but this one speaks 20 different phrases you don’t expect to hear from a toy. It says things like “Hurt me, I don’t mind,” and “Do you really love me?”
History of prices:
Art.net, private collection, Miami USA US$ 2,750.-, May 2023 (make an offer)
Vince Fine Arts, Miami, US$ 4,500.- January 2023
Lama Auctions, Van Nuys, CA, USA US$ 813.- 16 December 2021 (hammer price)
Vince Fine Arts, Miami, US$ 3,000.- April 2020
Alternate Projects, US$ 1,800.- April 2020
Artsation, Berlin, Germany € 2.500,- March 2014
Whitney Museum, New York, USA, € 360,- / US$ 475.- October 2012
LOUWRIEN WIJERS, Société Anonyme, 2007
61 x 86,7 cm
offset: recto-verso, folded (21,7 x 30,8 cm) as issued
published by Hors Série Point d”Ironie / Agnès B., Paris
issued on behalf of exhibition at Plateau – FRAC, Ile de France, Paris, France very rare
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PETER FISCHLI & DAVID WEISS, Making Things Go / The Way Things Go / Sketch, 2007
3 DVD’s 71’27” / 1’52” / 29’57”
sleeves, cardboard box, embossed texts
edition 150, signed, numbered
mint
published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Fischli and Weiss adapted objects and situations from everyday life and placed them in an artistic context—often using humour and irony. Wurstserie (1979) was Fischli and Weiss’s first collaborative project, setting the tone for their future work. In the series, ordinary sausages and slices of sausages became the protagonists of scenarios, alluding to situations such as cars in a traffic accident in an urban setting, layers of carpets and other situations.By the end of the 1980s, the duo had expanded their repertoire to embrace an iconography of the incidental, creating deadpan photographs of kitsch tourist attractions and airports around the world.
History of prices:
published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland € 6.100,- / US$ 7,900.- October 2012
CINDY SHERMAN
Woman in Pool, 2007
print on huge beach towel, tag, plastic envelope
178 x 152,5 cm / 70 x 60 inch
original wrapping as issued
produced by Works on Whatever
inv.CShe 000
History of price:
eBay-TheArteryFineArt, Miami, USA December 2022 US$ 1,000.- (make offer)
JILL MAGID, Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, 2007
20,8 x 14,5 cm
artist’s book, 54 pp.
edition 800
numbered
mint
published by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
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This artist’s book/diary was funded by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for the Off the record commission.
* Cover text: “Last winter I came back to New York City after living five years abroad. I rented an apartment in Brooklyn and took the subway often. Everyone is in transit, except the officers. I approached one and asked him to search me.”
JEREMY DELLER / with Paul Ryan, Portrait of John Hough, 2007
15 x 7,5 cm
offset leporello (15 x 39,8 cm)
limited edition
The cover of this tube map of London shows the portrait of Transport for London’s longest serving member of staff, i.e. John Hough with 45 years of service.
