ULISES CARRIÓN, Trios & Boleros, 1984 [cassette tape]
7 x 10,9 x 1,7 cm
cassette tape with dot matrix printed text (recto ‘Ned. Text’ / verso ‘Eng. Text’), inlay label [red version]
published by Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, Netherlands
never played, rare
sold
Trios & Boleros is a radioshow presented by Ulises Carrión, who plays all types of Mexican folk music, recorded in June 1983, produced for the VPRO radio in the series “Art on the Radio, Radio as Art”.
DAMIEN HIRST, Kids gift box, n.d. [ca 2014]
5,5 x 31,5 x 22 cm
cardboard box – comes in Other Criteria gift wrapping and ribbon – with 7 items: shopping bag “I Am Become Death Shatterer of Worlds”, “For the Love of God” A5 notebook with silver leaf on book edges, “Spot Keyring”, “Hirst Halves Game” (2012), “Butterfly Pencil” – yellow, “Spot Badge” and “Flip Book” – spin painting
edition unknown extremely rare
published by Other Criteria and Damien Hirst and Sciences Ltd., New York, USA
inv.DHir 000-pr
DANIEL KNORR, Portrait, n.d. [ca 2006]
10,4 x 6 cm
colour photo, perspex tube
unique series
produced during Liste 2012, Basel, Switzerland
During the Liste art fair in 2012 visitors were invited to have a picture taken by Daniel Knorr who had installed himself with a 3-D studio camera in the Druckerei of the building. Surrounded by print machineries and letterpress wood blocks Michel Ritter – director of the FRAC in Fribourg – urged him to have a portrait taken of gallerist Kees van Gelder.
TAKAKO SAITO, Play with the sun!, 1993
3 x 7 x 3,2 cm
glasses, hand written texts, painted glasses case, chess board of paper collage
ink stamp Noodle Edition inside case
edition 91
signed, dated, numbered
published by Noodle Edition, Düsseldorf, Germany
condition excellent
€ 800,- plus € 20,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.TSait 352_pr
JOHN M ARMLEDER, Olivier’s rejects, 1994
40 x 40,5 cm
etching-aquatint cutting
unique series of 11
In March 1995 John M Armleder took part in a group exhibition The-repitition-that-is-a-repitition at Galerie van Gelder. For the first time ‘Olivier’s rejects’ were shown on a single needle; both clumsy and touching left-overs of a series of elemental forms in print of Olivier Mosset. “I was in Olivier’s atelier and I saw some interesting pieces of paper lying against a paper basket, obviously meant for throwing it away. I asked if I could get these left-overs of his print and cutting out session. That was no problem, but later on he discovered that I re-used his waste. He was a bit jealous when he saw the results, I think…… Well, anyway you should not tell him this.”
Many years later I read a text by Willy Parker in a newsletter (posted 13 March 2009) of Minus Plus, New York, USA, with a quote of John M Armleder: “I believe the work that is considered to be mine is someone else’s…anybody’s… the whole world. My work is a cultural event, an inevitable event. If all artists were to disappear, art would be produced by others with a different understanding, different means and different materials. As an individual, an artist simply fills a void. He is the means to an end, so that this arrangement, this accumulation of events can be organized.” Further in the article Parker gives a version on ‘Olivier’s rejects’ and states: ‘… and in 1994, unless we are mistaken, Olivier Mosset gave John Armleder a number of aquatints he considered to be inadequate (thinking that Armleder would doubtlessly use these for packaging materials or something of this nature), and then Armleder published them under the title Olivier’s Rejects. I don’t think it was a matter on inadequacy, but much more about the playful eye and mind of John…… and the ‘why not’ attitude of Olivier. KvG
exhibition view in CEC, Geneva
OLIVIER MOSSET, Sans titre, 1994
each ca Ø 30 cm
series of 25 + 5 HC
unique etchings-aquatint in black, white and colours, framed
dated, signed
published by CEC / Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, invitation Galerie 845, 1972
9 x 12,5 cm
stencil print on yellow paper
edition unknown,
published by Galerie 845, Amsterdam extremely rare
inv.HF 689-pr
DAVID HORVITZ, Studio Rent Editions, 2016 (rent for September)
ca 12,6 x 17,6 cm
hand stamped card, berry’s juice
signed, numbered, dated
edition 10
published by the artist
inv.DHor 000-pr
“There is a tree native to Australia that grows next to my house in Los Angeles. The Latin name is Syzygium Australe. It has these red/purple berries that are like small cherries. When they fall to the ground they stain the cement purple. I’ve always loved it when plants colored the monotonous infrastructures of a city. So I collected the fruit and made my own stains onto watercolor paper.”
From a mail d.d. 28-09-2016 by David Horvitz.
verso:
One of the cards smeared with berries juice during the production:
1 VHS tape ( A live-video performance, Wiesbaden, Germany), 30′, 2 VHS boxes ‘Do-it-yourself kit’ with various items in box 1 and 2
signed, numbered, dated on VHS sticker
Deluxe edition items: magic rainbow bubbles, 3 chocolate rabbits, tape cassette Swan Lake, silicon glove (box 1) / 4 colours, 4 sugar decoration cream, tooth brush, silicon glove (box 2)
edition 30 (here nr. 26/30)
published by Edition Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany
p.o.r.
This Deluxe edition of Swan Lake shows a choreography by Ben Patterson based on a composition of Peter Tchaikovsky. These 30 deluxe copies include “Do-It-Your-Self Kit, Box 1” and “Do-It-Your-Self Kit, Box 2”, both provided with chocolate Easter rabbits.
Regular edition
BEN PATTERSON, Swan Lake, 2013
1 VHS tape in cassette ( A live-video performance, Wiesbaden, Germany), 30′
edition 100
published by Edition Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany
MIKE MILLS, The Fabric of Events, 2013
20,9 x 13,3 cm
pocketbook, unpaginated, ill., cardboard box
issue 18
published by The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco, USA
mint
inv.MMil 000-pr
The Thing Quarterly is ‘a magazine in the form of an object’, sometimes being a book. The artist’s book The Fabric of Events of Mike Mills is a compilation of factual stories on social and political issues published in newspapers and other media. Ultra short stories about a catched wild bear in the 19th century, Sammy Davis Jr. staying in the White House, an Iraqi shoe thrown at U.S. President George W. Bush, etc. The idea of reconstructing historical moments by describing an event creates the fabric of events.
inv.MMil 343
MIRELLA BENTIVOGLIO, Letraset metaphors, 1978 [invitation]
29,7 x 21 cm
print on paper, folded as mailed
splendid condition
rare
€ 120,- plus Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.ObandS 341
This is an invitation for an exhibition at Other Books and So / Ulises Carrión in Amsterdam in which Mirella Bentivoglio showed her so called poegraphy.
Ref. Mirella Bentivoglio at National Museum of Women in the Arts
History of prices:
Jonathan Hill, New York, USA US$ 150.- February 2026
Jonathan Hill, New York, USA US$ 300.- June 2023
