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,-

KATHARINA FRITSCH, Spaziergänger mit Hund, 1986 [artist’s postcard]

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KATHARINA FRITSCH, Spaziergänger mit Hund, 1986
14,8 x 10,5 cm
offset, postcard
published by Sonsbeek 86, Arnhem, Netherlands
recto: mint – verso: aged paper
limited edition
photo: Thomas Ruff, Düsseldorf, Germany
€ 50,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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This artist’s postcard was especially printed for sculpture exhibition Sonsbeek ’86 and distributed free to the public attending the show. As with other Fritsch items there was only one printing of the card. In the catalogue raisonné this card is archived as a multiple. Image is by Thomas Ruff, Düsseldorf, Germany.

NAVIN RAWANCHAIKUL, Com…, 1999 [artist’s book, 5 tipped-in items]

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NAVIN RAWANCHAIKUL, Com…, 1999
29,7 x 21,2 x 2,7 cm
artist’s book, introductory text by Helen Michaelsen
tipped in postcard, airmail envelope, Post-it paper, piece of fabric, comic strip booklet
published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walher Koenig, Cologne, Germany
€ 185,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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‘Born in 1971 in Chiang Mai, Navin Rawanchaikul is a Thai artist whose ancestral roots are from the Hindu-Punjabi communities of present day Pakistan. Questioning modern systems of artistic creation and presentation, Rawanchaikul has developed a unique and vast body of work that relies heavily on team spirit and collaboration, and is often produced under the banner of Navin Production, a studio he founded in 1994.’

VOEBE DE GRUYTER, Temperatures, 1996 [invitation card, inlay]

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VOEBE DE GRUYTER, Temperatures, 1996
9,8 x 14,6 cm, invitation card with inlay (29,9 x 21,1 cm)
2 parts, screen prints, folded as issued
published by De Kunstbank VzW, Louvain, Belgium
mint
€ 35,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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‘From an encounter between Voebe de Gruyter and Herman Labro [founder of Galerie Eve’n and Yet] arises a collaboration which, in 1996, results in De Gruyter’s second solo exhibition, Winterbeelden, this time in Louvain. Winterbeelden ultimately turns out not to be a true solo: curator Labro has one more ace up his sleeve, the Swiss photographer Peter Blatt and Lizz Kampe are also invited. However, there is no trace of De Gruyter’s co-exhibitors before or during the exhibition.

The 2020 encounter does not lead to a new joint project: De Gruyter declines. This happens against the backdrop of a relationship that becomes strained when, in 2015, De Gruyter discovers that the MOEV collective consists of no one other than Labro himself.’ Ref. “How It Functions – an introduction”, Rudi Salomon, May 2025

BERT MCLEAN, What does it do?, 2024

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BERT MCLEAN, What does it do?, 2024
ca 20 x 12 cm, various sizes
signed and dated on each of 6 hand made paper bags, on date June 2025
series of 40 unique patches, numbered 1-40

In order to install this floor sculpture one may throw these patches one after each other down on a floor. Surprisingly, these always drop down in a completely right way. Yet, one may still ask: “What does it do”.

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
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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.’