Century ’87, 1987 each 16,2 x 82,4 cm
6 streamers, screenprint, limited edition:
‘Daan van Golden in de Hortus’
‘Nam June Paik in het Postkantoor’
‘Scholte en Dokoupil op de Wallen’
‘Pieter Laurens Mol op Solder’
‘Clemente in de Kelder’
‘Titus Nolte in de Oude Manhuispoort’
* In 1987 Sjarel Ex initiated Century ’87 together with Els Hoek and Nicolette Gast on behalf of Amsterdam Cultural Capital. It was an exhibition in the Amsterdam city centre featuring installations from 30 contemporary Dutch and foreign artists including Nam June Paik, Barry Flanagan, James Lee Byars, Boltanski, Sarkis, Daan van Golden, Rene Daniels and Marlene Dumas. The graphic design group Wild Plakken distributed the black and white streamers all over town in order to draw attention to the project. Very fine copies. Rare.
LAWRENCE WEINER, Ab ovo usque ad mala, 1987
diameter dinner plate: 26,5 cm
porcelain dinnerware, 4 parts hand signed on certificate, numbered and also signature baked in porcelain
edition 250 + 10 AP + 5 HC
pristine
published by Fodor Museum, Amsterdam
€ 680,-plus € 32 Track & Trace registered EU mail
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‘Ab ovo’ (Latin: “from the origin, the egg”) is a reference to one of the twin eggs from which Helen of Troy was born. The eggs were laid by Leda after mating with Zeus disguised as a swan. As a metaphor the words refer to the beginning of something ominous; had Leda not lain the egg, Helen would not have been born, so Paris could not have eloped with her, so there would have been no Trojan War. This expression is distinct from the longer phrase ‘ab ovo usque ad mala’ (Latin: “from the egg to the apples”) which appears in Horace’s Satire 1.3. It refers to the course of a Roman meal, which often began with eggs and ended with fruit. Here obviously Lawrence Weiner understood the Latin phrase as the similar American English phrase ‘from soup to nuts’.
CESARE DA SESTO, Leda and the Swan, ca 1506-1510
In ‘Leda and the Swan’ Helen’s birth is depicted, painted after a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Helen and Clytemnestra are shown emerging from one egg, Castor and Pollux from another.
KEITH HARING, Untitled, n.d. [ca 1986]
10,3 x 10,3 x 4 cm
offset on 100 jig saw pieces, cardboard box
edition unknown
condition: splendid, not signed
published by Pop Shop, New York, USA
provenance Pop Shop, New York in 1986 rare
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Added information
Item shown below was sold at Roseberys London Fine Art Auctioneers 7 July 2020:
TAKAKO SAITO, Ein Buch des Mikadobuchs, 1986
12,5 x 15,5 x 1,7 cm
unique series of 20
signed, dated
book and tooth pick in wooden box
not available; ask for details
The whole edition of ‘Ein Buch des Mikadobuchs’ forms a stack of paper sheets. Out of these asymmitrical cut outs 20 stabbed book blocks have been made, each ca 9 x 8 cm in size. The white silk paper pages are bound with a hand coloured cut off Mikado pin, to which a loose hand coloured tooth pick has been added. There is an original pencil drawing on top of each wooden box showing in red colour pencil the part, bound as book, of this Mikado puzzle book.
ENZO CUCCHI, T-shirt, size L, 1986
print on cotton
edition unknown
condition: mint and folded as issued
very rare
published by Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
€ 195,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
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Here, this item comes in light weight customized cardboard box.
GERHARD RICHTER, Spiegel, 1986
21 x 29,8 cm
mirror glass on cork plate
edition 100 + XVII
signed, numbered, dated
published by Jahresgabe des Kunstvereins für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold
History of prices:
Artax Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany € 1.800,- October 2005
Mo-Art Gallery, Amsterdam € 2.400,- November 2005
Van Ham Auktionen, Cologne, Germany € 2.375,- June 2012 at auction 311 – Lot 856
WIM T. SCHIPPERS, Going to the Dogs, 1986,
21 x 16,3 cm
offset brochure, 22 pp.
edition unknown, rare
published by Stichting Going to the Dogs, Amsterdam
This is the program-booklet of a Fluxus performance by Wim T. Schippers at the Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam. The play ‘Going to the Dogs’ was performed by six German shepherd dogs. The booklet was only on sale at no more than 3 performances.
