BAS JAN ADER, A work by Bas Jan Ader…, 1972
21 x 29,7 cm
invitation, printed matter, stencil print
published by Art & Project, Amsterdam
good condition, i.e. slightly yellowed
extremely rare
€ 950,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace registered mail
BJAder 559-pr
Bas Jan Ader’s first solo exhibition took place at Art & Project in 1972. Twice a day from 15 until 21 April he performed by reading an article published in the Reader’s Digest: The Boy who fell over Niagara Falls. It describes the only recorded instance of someone surviving a fall. At certain moments during his reading performance Bas Jan Ader paused and drank from a glass of water.
MARIEKE ELZERMAN, Marieme / Marieke, 2018 [film]
11 x 11 x 2,3 cm
digital film, 21’31”
engraved USB stick, 4 film stills (selfies), English / Dutch text by Kees van Gelder
linen box
signed, numbered, dated
edition 13 + 2 AP
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions and Mo-Art Gallery, Amsterdam
€ 420,-
A new film titled “Marieme / Marieke” (2018) by Marieke Elzerman is of a natural beauty. The script is elementary: two girls of just no more teener decide to get to know each other better via WhatsApp. One studies and lives in Ghent (Belgium) and the other lives amidst her family in Dakar (Senegal). Both film their direct surrounding in a light-hearted and almost uneasy manner. Marieme is more defiant and expressive, while Marieke is more reflective and aloof. That brings on that one challenges the other to step more into the open and to make selfies.
No doubt there are contrasts in what is registered, but the differences are not that striking and that makes this film into a factual documenting of two equivalent environments of places of birth, without an underlying social-critical undertone. The latter makes this debut film friendly and human.
At the end of the film a warm gesture by Marieke is shown. Two individual youngsters come closer to each other, yet simultaneously one becomes aware of a calm and more timid attitude to life on one continent and a more carpe diem attitude on the other. More than anything else, these opposite attitudes seem to become crucial for the rest of their life.
In “Marieme / Marieke” (duration: 21′ 31″) the individual experience of one’s behaviour and own existence is the heart of the film and could therefore be called a film on existentialism made in 2018.
KvG
Marieke Elzerman (born in Amsterdam, 1996) studies at the film academy KASK in Ghent, Belgium
SALIM BAYRI, Sad Ali, 2017 [small version]
16,2 x 4,9 cm
print, lasered sky leather
signed, numbered, dated
edition 4
€ 250,-
Salim Bayri surrounds himself with an alter ego that he calls Sad Ali, a shortening of “sad alien”. This figure has no organs, undertakes no actions and opposite to a cartoon personality he doesn’t talk. As a kind of ambulant search machine he runs around checking out situations and things.
Salim Bayri: ‘I mostly use computer generated images, sound, footage and short actions because of their speed and fluidity.’
Salim Bayri is nominated for the Nationale Nederlanden Group Award 2018. The other nominees:
Pauline Curnier Jardin
Sam Samiee
Rafaël Rozendaal
AI WEIWEI, Study of Perspective (Tiananmen), n.d. [2014]
110 x 110 cm / 43 x 43 inches
silk scarf with hand-rolled edges, sleeve with punched hole
edition unknown mint
published by Third Drawer Down, Fitzroy, Australia
€ 285,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AWei 549-pr
On the back of the cover the work is described as “Study of Perspective – Tiananmen, 1995-2003”. This Product art item was sold out quickly and since 2013 not available anymore on Third Drawer Down’s website.
AI WEIWEI, Sunflower Seeds, 2010
21,7 x 21,7 cm / unfolded 110 x 110 cm
silk scarf, original cover with punched hole
edition unknown
mint
published by Third Drawer Down, Fitzroy, Australia
€ 365,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AWei 549-pr
On the back of the envelope this work is described as “Sunflower Seeds (detail), 2010”. ‘Sunflower Seeds’ was an installation shown in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, London in 2010. It seemed to be a huge flood of sunflower seed husks, in reality it was a flat scenery of over 100 million individually porcelain replicas of the seed. Handmade in China.
This edition was not for sale on the website of Third Drawer Down or Tate Modern’s webshop before January 2013.
SOL LEWITT, Untitled, n.d. [ca 1990]
5,4 x 5,4 cm
glossy print, badge/lapel pin
limited edition
published by Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
rare, splendid condition
inv.SLew 21
p.o.r.
This pin has the sparkling emanation of a broche and was produced for promotional reasons. It was sent to clients of the Rosa Esman Gallery in New York with the aim to draw attention to the solo exhibition of Sol Lewitt, at that time written as Sol Le Witt. The names of “Sol Le Witt” and “Rosa Esman Gallery” are printed on the reverse.
Sol LeWitt made this Wall Drawing #821 in 1982. It bears the title A Square Divided Horizontally and Vertically into Four Equal Parts, Each with a Different Direction of Alternating Parallel Bands of Lines. and became a signature motif with the pictorial power of a traffic sign.
For date reference see also: El Lissitzky, lapel pin, verso dated 1990 in print.
HESTER OERLEMANS / GEERT DE ROOIJ, Star, n.d. [ca 1990]
ca 93 x 67 cm
various techniques on silk, paper slip with Dutch text: “Dit is de laatste zeefdruk…”
folded as issued
edition 100, here nr 55
signed, numbered
published by Oceaan, Arnhem
DIV.1-HOer 546
Oceaan
Het Arnhemse kunstenaarsinitiatief Oceaan startte in de zomer van 1991 de ‘Tentoonstelling per Post’. Onder het motto “Oceaan komt naar U toe!’, had Hester Oerlemans van Oceaan zeefdrukken gemaakt met vier kunstenaars: Rob Birza, Kees Goudzwaard, Annemie van Kerckhoven en Geert de Rooij. Wie deze vier kunstwerken wilde bekijken, hoefde niet naar Arnhem te gaan. Na overmaking van honderd gulden kreeg je ze thuis gestuurd, en daar kon je je eigen tentoonstelling inrichten. “Ik wilde er iets spannends van maken,” vertelde Hester Oerlemans. “Normaal ga je naar een galerie met allerlei verwachtingen, op basis van de uitnodiging, of een affiche. Wij willen die gang van zaken met dit project doorbreken, en de tentoonstelling zo verrassend mogelijk houden. Dus pas als je thuis per post de zeefdrukken hebt gekregen, weet je hoe de tentoonstelling er uit ziet.”
WILLEM DE RIDDER, PK lamp, 2017
ca 95 x 55 x 30 cm, various sizes
Ikea lamp, ceiling clam, wire, paper crumpling
signed
series of 8 unique ‘Paper Konstellations’
published by the artist / Art Kitchen, Amsterdam
inv. WdeRid 529
RÚRÍ, Item: energy, 1978
ca 2 x 3 cm
offset, fountain pen ink, hand written text on sticker
(part of page 6 of monthly magazine Ephemera)
edition 500
published by Ephemera, Amsterdam
sold
