RENÉ DANIELS, De donkere kamer, 1986 [screen print]

RENÉ DANIELS, De donkere kamer, 1986
ca 21 x 30 cm
screen print
signed, dated
edition 250
published by Code magazine, Amsterdam
€ 550,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.RDan 000

Galerie The Living Room in Amsterdam published Code, a magazine founded by artists of the gallery. Since 1987 each issue was ca twice a year published in 450 copies. To each magazine a signed screen print was added; folded as insert. Participating artists Jiri Dokoupil, Peter Schuyff, Günther Förg, Rob Scholte, a.o. Several prints that were never used as an insert are unfolded and are rare.

Code is an artist’s magazine initiated by artist Martin van Vreden and published between 1983 – 1989 during which ten issues were produced. The first eight issues contained a screen print in an edition of 250 copies of artists like Rob Scholte, Frank van den Broeck, René Daniels, Peter Schuyff and Jiri Georg Dokoupil. Many artists including Martin van Vreden that published in the magazine were closely attached to The Living Room at hat imd an influential and ambitious gallery in Amsterdam introducing successfully Dutch artists like Rob Scholte, Henk Visch and Fortuyn/O’Brien.

History of prices:
Bernaerts Auctioneers, Antwerp, Belgium 26 April 2024 € 400,- (hammer price)
BVA Auctions, Amersfoort, Netherlands 19 December 2022 € 640,- (hammer price)
Kunstgalerij De Vuyst, Lokeren, Belgium 2 March 2019 € 550,- (hammer price)
Venduehuis der Notarissen, The Hague, Netherlands 19 April 2018 € 500,- (hammer price)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions, Amsterdam 4 December 2018 € 240,- (hammer price)
Jetske-Van Vliet, Berlin, Germany 3 July 2010 € 600,- (hammer price)

PHILIP CORNER, Piece of reality, 1986

PHILIP CORNER, Piece of reality, 1986
plastic box: 6 x 3 x 5 cm, paper with stamped text: ca. 2,5 x 1 cm
signed, numbered
edition 150,
published by Edition Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany

This ‘Piece of reality’ of Philip Corner was made for a box with many contributing artists. The edition of 150 was in fact a series of different tiny objects as shown.

DIETER ROTH, Zeitschrift für Alles, n.d., signed [1985]

DIETER ROTH, Zeitschrift für Alles, n.d. [1985]
29,7 x 21 cm
photo copy, folded as posted
signed
edition unknown
inv.DRot 000-pr

This letter was sent to me with a request to contribute to a next issue of “Zeitschrift für Alles” published by Dieter Roth:

‘Die Zeitschrift für Alles soll (nach einer Schwächepause) wieder erscheinen, und wir möchten mit diesem Brief um Beiträge bitten. Wie gesagt: Alles*.
– Die Beiträge können bis zu 5 Seiten haben,
– Format A4, reproduziert in einer Farbe (Schwarz),
– Die Autoren können, je auf Wunsch, ihre 5 Seiten zum Abdruck ihrer Briefe an die Redaktion – oder andere – nehmen. Gerne druckten wir wenigstens die Begleitschreiben der Beiträge ab.
– Redaktionsschluss der kommenden Nummer (Nr. 8) ist Ende Juli 1985.
– Honorar: 5 Exx. der Nummer.
Erwartungsvoller Gruss vom Herausgeber
Dieter Roth

* ob Texte oder Bilder
KvG

JOSEPH BEUYS, Schwefelpostkarte [1984]

JOSEPH BEUYS, Schwefelpostkarte [1984]
10,5 x 15 x 0,5 cm
galvanised iron, sulphur, text
signed by Joseph Beuys and Klaus Staeck
ca. 100 produced
Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
p.o.r.

This card was meant as a Christmas card covered with a thick layer of sulphur representing cleansing Western society since it is used as a desinfecting medicine. The back of the metal card reads: “frohe schweflige weinachten”:

TAKAKO SAITO, Monolog von Kartoffel, 1984 [box with book, signed]

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TAKAKO SAITO, Monolog von Kartoffel, 1984
18 x 16 x 7 cm / size cardboard box: 7,7 x 19 x 15,2 cm
stamp printed texts, Pergamin paper, wood, hanging thread and hand made cardboard box (also signed, numbered)
slightly coloured due to aging
edition 5, here number 3/5
signed, numbered, dated
published by Noodle Edition, Düsseldorf, Germany
€ 485,- + € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.TSait 797-pr

DADI GUDBJÖRNSSON, Thingummy – Collective Drawings, n.d. [1984]

Thingummy – Collective Drawings, n.d. [1984]  
19 x 19 x 1,7 cm
vinyl record 33 RPM, 46 sheets in offset, 2 original linocut prints, cardboard box
numbered edition of 500
mint, although condition box: used
published by Mobshop, Varmá, Iceland and Kalejdoskop / Sune Nordgren, Ahus, Sweden
€ 140,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.DGud 365-pr