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OTOBONG NKANGA, Crumbling Through Powdery Air, 2015 [edition, signed, numbered]

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OTOBONG NKANGA, Crumbling Through Powdery Air, 2015
80 x 59 cm
digital print, poster, laser cut
signed, numbered
edition 50
mint, unframed
published by Portikus, Frankfurt / am Main, Germany
€ 50,- For purchase visit: https://www.portikus.de/en/editions/728_crumbling_through_powdery_air_poster_edition

Added information:
This edition is made from the regular poster announcing the exhibition of Otobong Nkanga at Portikus. With the applied laser technique the lower part of the poster is cut off completely.

‘In 1875 a prospector scouting the land described Green Hill, an area so rich in ore minerals that it radiated the bright green colour of oxidised copper. The Green Hill would become legendary as having the highest concentration and diversity of minerals in Namibia. Yet what Nkanga came upon was a cavernous hole. The extraction of the minerals malachite and azurite had mined the hill into oblivion. The copper had been processed, transported and erected elsewhere with no tangible connection to its origins in Tsumeb. The closed mine, abandoned miners’ houses and disused railway buildings that Nkanga encountered languish – ruins and debris of places that once bustled and bristled with desire.’
From the website of Portikus.

History of price:
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany June 2025 € 50,-

VOEBE DE GRUYTER, zonder titel, 1999 [photograph with street text]

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VOEBE DE GRUYTER, zonder titel, 1999
70 x 50 cm
photo print
numbered, signed
edition 10
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions 1999
€ 700,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.VdG 000

This print shows a (illegally) painted text on a parking space in front of Galerie van Gelder being part of Voebe de Gruyter’s first solo exhibition in 1999. The text reads:
‘An elderly man with dangerously high blood pressure is sitting in a dirty old Mercedes diesel, the engine running, eating an orange. The engine is running very irregularly.’

PETER HALLEY, untitled – Exploding Cell, ca 1997 [signed in print]

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PETER HALLEY, untitled [Exploding Cell], ca 1997
14 x 21,6 cm
computer print
signed in print – here, hand signed by visitor and collector A. Reinders
extremely rare
probably published by University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo NY, USA
inv.PHal 838-pr

In 1994 a portfolio with nine prints of Peter Halley called “Exploding Cell” was published by Schellmann Editions. The above shown print is related and apparently meant as a DIY print.

PETER HALLEY. untitled, ca 1997 [computer print, Exploding Cell]

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PETER HALLEY. untitled [Exploding Cell], ca 1997
21,6 x 22,9 cm
computer print
signed in print
extremely rare
probably published by University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo NY, USA
inv.PHal 837-pr

 

Additional information
In 1994 a portfolio with nine prints of Peter Halley called “Exploding Cell” was published by Edition Schellmann. One of the prints is related to apparently a DIY computer print featured above.


Exploding Cell, 1994, each 36 x 47 inches, portfolio of nine prints, silkscreen on paper, edition of 32, published by Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany

MEVIS & VAN DEURSEN, Uitnodiging!, 1993 [poster]

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MEVIS & VAN DEURSEN, Uitnodiging!, 1993
42,5 x 30,5 cm (paper size 46.4 x 34.5 cm)
poster
condition very fine
extremely rare
published by Mevis & Van Deursen, Amsterdam

In 1993 curator Moritz Küng was invited to make a show in Galerie van Gelder & AP. For that he invited graphic designers Mevis & Van Deursen (Amsterdam) to make an announcement poster for an exhibition called ‘Uitnodiging!’. The announcement poster of Mevis & Van Deursen shows a crying black woman that could be understood as one that is either crying or laughing, or both perhaps. For the exhibition itself another poster was designed depicting a woman wearing sun glasses.