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
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.
Both museums and 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
JIM SHAW, Hairdo, 2012
61 x 45,7 cm
lithograph, signed, numbered, edition 100
produced by Baltic, Gateshead, UK € 436,- / £ 350.- November 2012
The comic book image ‘Hairdo’ of a 1960s bouffant wig references a passage from Shaw’s proposed prog-rock opera based on his fictional religion Oism, a narrative he has been working on for more than 20 years. The image also refers to a mural ‘The Rinse Cycle’ 2012, in which a group of oversized bouffant hairdo’s hover around a desert landscape they share with the interior view of a washing machine in mid-cycle.
JONATHAN MEESE, Ausgewählte Schriften zur Diktatur der Kunst, 2012
40 x 30 cm
canvas, plaster, book, paint
edition 20 + 5 A.P.
numbered, signed
published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany
not available
JONATHAN MONK, It’s a Newspaper, 2012
68 x 45 cm
3 newspapers, available in pink, red or blue, 16 pp.
published by Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
“It’s a Newspaper” was first distributed during the opening of “It’s a Circus,” Jonathan Monk’s exhibition at Yvon Lambert in Paris from March 10 – April 8 2012. The newspaper explains the origin of Monk’s project through a series of photographs. For his exhibition at Yvon Lambert Monk presented 23 monochromatic paintings that were installed by a circus troop following a precise choreography dictated by the artist. What happened in the main room of the gallery was documented with 23 photographs to be on show in the second room.
History of prices:
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France € 3,- each, November 2012
LATIFA ECHAKHCH, Untitled, 2012
21 x 29,7 cm
screenprint, 270 grams Zerkall paper
edition 100, here nr 178
signed, numbered on certificate
published by Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
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Reflecting on ideas of absence inherent in migration, French-Moroccan artist Latifa Echakhch – having herself a diverse cultural heritage, living in France and Switzerland – made a sculptural work that to an extent ‘repopulates’ the island over the winter months. With the expertise of the renowned Research Institute Senckenberg, the island’s biotope was mapped. Based on these findings, Echakhch developed a project centering around the transient nature of life on the island and the fluctuation of migrating birds, and fabricated a number of kites in the shape of birds to be attached to the trees. The kites are made from plastic bin-bags, echoing the paradox of a nature reserve in an urban cityscape. The screenprint Untitled, 2012 reminiscences this outdoor event.
