GLENN LIGON, I Am A Man, 2011
25 1/2 x 14 x 3 1/2 inches / bag itself approx. 14″x16″
tote bag
published by Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
p.o.r.
In 1968, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, hundreds of black sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. Famously, they carried signs reading, “I AM A MAN”. This statement “I AM A MAN” started out as an exasperated cry from an oppressed minority to be treated as human. The posters were carried by the workers on strike that drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tennessee the first week of April 1968. After King’s assassination later that week, the poster became a nationally recognized symbol of the struggle for equality and humanity. Twenty years later, Ligon replicated those signs in his painting Untitled, 1988. Working through the legacy of the civil rights movement he has found his artistic voice: this was one of Ligon’s earliest paintings to include appropriated text, an exploration that continues to this day.
RYAN GANDER, Still not even to be trusted with a paperclip, 2011
38.2 x 45.8 cm (image 25,4 x 33,9 cm)
archival inkjet print on paper
edition 50
published by Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
not available
History of price:
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland € 725,- / GBP 600.- July 2013
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland € 690,- / GBP 600.- April 2018
Ryan Gander’s print is a close up image of a shirt with a small piece of paper poking out of the pocket displaying a description of a dream by a friend of the artist.
FRED TOMASELLI, Sept. 15, 2005, 2010
15 x 17.4 inches
edition 80, signed, numbered
screenprint, inkjet print
published by James Cohan Gallery, New York $ 1,200.- December 2012
On the September 15, 2005, Fred Tomaselli alters a more than disturbing front page image of bomb victims in Baghdad, drawing over a photograph with a colorful flower pattern. The swirling vines, reminiscent of traditional Islamic arabesques, distract from the horror of the subject, a suicide bombing that killed nearly 150 people in Iraq.
JONATHAN MEESE, Scarlettierbaby’s Raspberry Mouth Spirit, 2010
bottle 1/2 litre 40% vol., grey cardboard box
edition 40, signed
comes in original cardboard box
published by Brigade Commerz, Pforzheim, Germany
€ 240,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
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Jonthan Meese’s adapted label of ‘Scarlettierbaby’s Raspberry Mouth Spirit’, 2010
KATHARINA GROSSE, 2010 Ohne Titel 2010
36 × 18 × 12 cm acrylic paint, PVC
unique series of 6
published by NBK/Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
not available
History of price:
NBK/Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany € 1.600,- May 2012
UGO RONDINONE, Nothing but the Night, 2010
10 × 10 cm, unique series of 10
published by NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
not available
In New York based mixed-media artist makes works exploring themes of fantasy and desire. Many of his pieces invite the viewer into a meditative state like the blurred, brightly colored, concentric rings of his target-shaped paintings; or his strictly black and white landscapes of gnarled trees that seem to bristle with questionable energy. His large rainbow signs are just as enigmatically alluring with their imperative affirmations of “Hell, Yes!” or “Our Magic Hour.” These signs seem to point to some hidden aspect of our reality and history. One sign, “Dog Days Are Over,” proclaims an end to a period of turmoil, but what that period is remains unclear. The signs encapsulate and make palpable an unnamed collective desire, and, in turn, may inspire a new one, e.g. this voyeuristic piece ‘Nothing but the night’.
History of prices:
NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany € 1.600,- December 2012
PAOLA PIVI, It’s a Cocktail Party, 2009
10,2 x 0,5 cm
earrings; white gold, glass, various liquids: red wine, milk, olive oil, ink, woodruff syrup, water, tonic, glycerine and/or coffee
edition 60
published by Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
sold
PAOLA PIVI, It’s a Cocktail Party, 2010
10,2 x 5 cm
earrings; white gold, glass, various liquids: red wine, milk, olive oil, ink, woodruff syrup, water, tonic, glycerine and/or coffee
edition 60
published by Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
sold
History of prices offered and determined by:
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany € 53,50 September 2010
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany € 53,50 October 2011
30 x 40 cm
HC, 16 pages printed with a die-cut model on each page, numbered, signed
edition 125 + 30 A.P.
published by Three Star Book, Paris, France € 240,- December 2010
In this book, the spectator can complete the work, or not. While the «Toblerone» sculptures are references to the Swiss national repast, and to the military bunkers that dot the Swiss landscape, their very repetion reveals their most interesting facet: context and origine. In a smooth act of near industrializing a sculptural process, Mosset has placed Toblerones in a long line of austere and culturally important places, as well as executing them in various media, from ice to steel. The book version is executed in one grey color picked by Mosset, and constitutes a form no less significant in the artist’s repertoire.
MARTIN CREED, Work No. 369
81 × 59 cm / 31 7/8 × 23 1/4 inches
offset poster folded
edition 100
published by Hauser & Wirth, Geneva, Switzerland € 410,- November 2012
not available
History of prices:
Hauser & Wirth, Geneva, Switzerland € 410,- November 2012
MARTIN CREED, Work No. 368
81 × 59 cm / 31 7/8 × 23 1/4 inches
offset poster folded
edition 100
published by Hauser & Wirth, Geneva, Switzerland
not available
History of prices:
Hauser & Wirth, Geneva, Switzerland € 410,- November 2012
