JONATHAN MONK, Soft Boiled Egg, 2013
colour film; super 8, DVD
hand spray painted on top of cardboard box, signed, dated and numbered certificate
series of 10 unique films
published by CEC /Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
not available
Each work ‘Soft Boiled Egg’ is unique, since its duration is related to the time of boiling the amount of eggs shown in each film. So edition 8/10 shows eight eggs boiling in a pan with water.
History of prices:
CEC, Geneva price in year of issue € 2.000,- / SFr 2.500,-
ANAHITA RAZMI, States, 2013
DVD, 36 min., loop
edition 10 + 2 AP, numbered, signed
published by Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Anahita Razmi has a special relationship with Iran, the homeland of her father. She connects with it on the level of a stranger, as she explains, “Somebody who is on the outside, but who at the same time finds herself in some kind of indefinable relationship with this alien place.” Here she focusses on the question of what happens when ‘Haram'(i.e. sinful in Islamic jurisprudence/forbidden) and ‘Halal'(i.e. lawful/permissable) are transplanted into a different cultural, as well as aesthetic, political context.
History of price:
Kunstverein Hannover, Germany December 2013 € 450,-
UGO RONDINONE, Cigarettesandwich, 2011 DVD 52′, jewel case
edition 300
published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Switzerland not available
Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone examinins the psychic and emotional nature of even the most banal events that occur in real life. Since 1997, Rondinone has been making neon-lit, rainbow-colored signs from phrases he appropriates from pop songs and everyday exclamations that are joyous affirmations of love and life, including the sculpture “Hell, Yes” which spells out the title in gigantic rainbow letters on the facade of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan’s Bowery district in New York City.
History of prices:
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Switzerland € 300,- / US$ 400.- August 2012
GIJS VAN LENTHE, Zanddoos, 2011
DVD, sound
wooden box (7 cm x 21 cm x 21 cm), wrapper, photo print, certificate, usb stick
signed, dated, numbered
edition 3
CONSTANT DULLAART, Users, Phaedrus, No Sunshine, Impossible Sculptures, 2011
DVD
seal bag, unbound book as published (18,5 x 14,5 cm); insert with content table, 60 pp.
edition 250
hand numbered
published by Peeping Tom Éditions, Paris, France
See info on publishing house
DANIEL KNORR, Pukapuka Tohunga Mahi Toi, 2009
ca 16 x 23 x 2,5 cm
SC, inserted objects, Maori text, 240 pages, DVD
edition 168
numbered, signed
published by Clouds, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Daniel Knorr’s artist’s book ‘Pukapuka Tohunga Mahi Toi’ involves a process of mapping the city in which Knorr collected pieces of rubbish on the street. This material was interleaved into the blank pages of each book and pressed by a 200-ton press, embossing the objects into the paper. Each book sets out to respond to local concerns and histories and, for this reason, the text for the New Zealand version is entirely in Maori. The cover the artist used the typeface Churchward Maori, designed by New Zealand type designer Joseph Churchward. The book includes a video which documents the process of making the work.
Clouds is a small publishing house involved in the publication of art books.
History of price:
published by Clouds, Aotearoa, New Zealand November 2009 US$ 200.- (year of issue)
Extra information:
DANIEL KNORR, Carte de Artiste, 2007
book with pressed objects, CD,
edition 100 with original objects
published by NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany December 2012 € 160,-
GUIDO VAN DE WERVE, Free X Show, 2008
DVD, 24′ 15″, original drawing on couver
edition 25
numbered, signed
Acts of freaks performed in a living room by Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, Guido van der Werve, Johanna Ketola, Henriëtte van Egten, Erwin van der Werve and Solveig Bergsteinsdóttir and a cat called Sushi. Each cover comes with an unique original drawing by the co-operating artists, signed by all participants and edited by Guido van der Werve who added a sound track, recorded in 2004. The edition as an item was published in 2008.
FRANZ WEST, Male Sticker, 2007
28 x 16 x 8 cm
epoxy resin, metal, edition 90 + 9 AP
signed and numbered on certificate, DVD
published by Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
not available
Ref. Male Sticker by Franz West
History of prices:
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany US$ 950.- November 2005
PETER FISCHLI & DAVID WEISS, Making Things Go / The Way Things Go / Sketch, 2007
3 DVD’s 71’27” / 1’52” / 29’57”
sleeves, cardboard box, embossed texts
edition 150, signed, numbered
mint
published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Fischli and Weiss adapted objects and situations from everyday life and placed them in an artistic context—often using humour and irony. Wurstserie (1979) was Fischli and Weiss’s first collaborative project, setting the tone for their future work. In the series, ordinary sausages and slices of sausages became the protagonists of scenarios, alluding to situations such as cars in a traffic accident in an urban setting, layers of carpets and other situations.By the end of the 1980s, the duo had expanded their repertoire to embrace an iconography of the incidental, creating deadpan photographs of kitsch tourist attractions and airports around the world.
History of prices:
published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland € 6.100,- / US$ 7,900.- October 2012
