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GERHARD RICHTER, Wald, 2008 [artist’s book]

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GERHARD RICHTER, Wald, 2008 [artist’s book]
24,6 x 17 x 3,4 cm
offset, German language, 396 pp., ill., 1.3 kilograms
HC with dust jacket
edition 2000
published by Walter Koenig Buchhandlung, Cologne, Germany
pristine condition
€ 400,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
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Gerhard Richter’s artist’s book Wald assembles 286 photographs that he has taken since 2005 in a forest Hahnwald close to Cologne. These photographs focus on fallen trees and branches lying on the woodland’s ground, i.e. photos on vertical tree trunks and horizontally piled logs or diagonally broken branches.

Opposite to the typology of the photographs, Gerhard Richter used a text taken from Waldung – Magazin für Wald, Wandern, Wissen, No. 1/2006, a German magazine about forestry. The text is composed of computer generated ad randomness, without syntax or linguistic logic. What is left of the original content is a collage of loose words and a scattered vocabulary of the articles in the magazine.

History of prices:
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam January 2021 € 400,- (price temporarily adapted to market)
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam December 2020 € 465,-
Amazon, December 2020 US$ 450.-
www.store.bookdummypress.com, May 2019 US$ 300.-
Amazon, May 2019 US$ 450.-
Amazon, July 2016 between US$ 430.- and US$ 605.-

TARYN SIMON, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2016 [artist’s book / catalogue]

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TARYN SIMON, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2016
34,3 x 26,5 x 2,1 cm
1.8 kilograms
catalogue – artist book
condition: pristine
signed, dated for the occasion of her exhibition in Gagosian Gallery, New York
€ 1.200,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail

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This book is half catalogue (authors write inside the book) and half artist’s book (the artist uses the book form as a means of expression).

At signings of political accords, contracts, treaties, and decrees powerful men flank floral centerpieces curated to convey the importance of the signatories and represented institutions, apparently. Taryn Simon dryly described each event and photographed the flower arrangements from archival images; she studied and collected these flowers. Then dried and pressed these as herbarium specimens. This sumptuous and yet visual book bears witness to an elaborate and intriguing relation between theatrical singings of politicians and the showing off of flower arrangements.

History of price:
AB Books, Ferndale (NY), USA US$ 1,350.58 August 2021 (unsigned)
Photobooknut Books, Jackson Heights (NY), USA US$ 499.95 August 2021 (unsigned)

KRIS VAN DESSEL, Approaches, 2015 – 2016 [USB stick]

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KRIS VAN DESSEL, Approaches, 2015-2016
5,3 x 8,4 cm
USB stick, numbered, monograph signed on certificate card, size:5,5 x 8,5 cm
numbered
edition 30
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Available at Galerie Annie Gentils
€ 300,-

“Approaches” is an interpretation of 115 art works that are part of the private collection of Kris van Dessel. From each work he took the most dominant colour and turned that into a plain monochrome surface that may be printed by the owner of the USB stick on standardized sheets of paper varying from size A4 to A0. There is no manual for the printing process. The artist gives the owner the freedom to have the prints machine folded into an A4 size, making it possible to store all prints in the cardboard box that comes with the edition.

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OLA VASILJEVA, Counting Steps Edition, 2016

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OLA VASILJEVA (and Zelda Ivkovic), Counting Steps Edition, 2016
59,4 x 42 cm
silkscreen, pencil drawing, collage on paper
stamped and numbered by the artist
edition 10 + 5 AP (here number 10/10)
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In 2008 Ola Vasiljeva founded OAOA / The Oceans Academy of Arts, a magazine and poster format as an experimental platform that plays with ideas of experimental systems of looking and reading. The would-be institution presents itself as real and plays with its own illusive image as a stage for the artist’s reflections. The magazine OAOA aims to de-condition and to un-learn in relation to the critique of reason and common logics. The result is a visual input of no-sense, fragmentation, de-funtion and a-chronology. In this sense Counting Steps Edition may be understood and read.

CUT magazine about art, issue #15, 2016

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CUT magazine about art, issue #15, January 2016
29,7 x 21 cm, 12 pp.
digital printed magazine
edition 60, of which 35 with multiple of Takako Saito: hand painted text on hand colored rice paper, text on card, in tipped in cellophane envelope
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam.
 

‘CUT magazine about art appears irregularly however often’ and is published by Galerie van Gelder. The magazine is printed in full colour.

Issue #15 opens with a report of a performance by Takako Saito written by Evert Schoorl – together with his partner Mieke Schoorl enthusiastic collector and economist and emeritus Director of graduate studies, Groningen University – followed by pages of a wall installation ‘You and me – Sky wall’.

 

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Gerhard Richter Style Tote Bags, 2015 [Abstract Painting]

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Gerhard Richter Style Tote Bags, 2015
each ca 65 x 25 x 8 cm
print on polyester bags: “Abstract Painting” I, V and IV
produced by RedBubble, San Francisco, USA
condition: mint

RedBubble Pty Ltd (a proprietary limited company abbreviated as ‘Pty Ltd’ is an Australian business structure) advertises in 2015 as follows: ‘Gerhard Richter Style is also available as Throw Pillows, Drawstring Bags, Art Prints, Canvas Prints, and Posters’. Here three tote bags inspired by abstract paintings of Gerhard Richter directly referring to subsequently “Abstracts Bild I”, “Abstracts Bild V” and “Abstracts Bild IV” [sic].
For some reason in 2018 these Style Tote Bags 2015 are not offered anymore by RedBubble Pty Ltd. In stead a company called Society6.com and FineArtAmerica.com have started to sell similar products.
In 2019 FineArtAmerica.com offers on its side only four products that are made with the consent of Gerhard Richter. Shown are two ‘Throw Pillows’ and two ‘Tote bags’ with reproduced details of two paintings.
 
 

RedBuble Pty Ltd sells not only in-the-style-of, but also merchandised Gerhard Richter products. See more at RedBubble Gerhard Richter products.

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GERHARD RICHTER, 1024 Colours, 2015 [tote bag]

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GERHARD RICHTER, 1024 Colours, 2015
ca 11 x 13 x 3 cm / 70 x 50 cm
pouch with polyester Tote bag, two attached labels
edition unknown
published by Loqi LLC, Saint Helena, USA
condition: mint
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Descriptions of the term tote or tate for bags, meaning bags “to carry”, can be traced back to 1900. During the 1950s, tote bags began to enter into the main culture. Women primarily utilized them as practical handheld bags because they didn’t require much care.

Merchandising art can be considered as a form of commercial appropriation. Previously merchandise products like that were usually put on the market after the death of famous artists like Vincent van Gogh or Piet Mondriaan. Since Appropriation art came into fashion, nowadays living artists accept this spin-off income as almost part of the art they are making, I guess. It is striking that commodities like tote bags or mugs are offered for just a few years at venues like museums and then they disappear completely and become part of history.

Here a detail of a painting of Gerhard Richter called “1024 Farben” has been reproduced on a synthetic shopping bag apparently authorized or sanctioned by the artist as a product design by Loqi, a Limited Liability Company.

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