KLAUS VOM BRUCH ?, no title, ca 1981-1985 [VHS cassette + 4 photo’s]

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KLAUS VOM BRUCH ?, no title, ca 1981-1985
VHS cassette box, photo copy, 4 Fuji Color photo prints (each 8.8 x 12.6 cm)
splendid condition
unknown publisher
condition: splendid, although one photo has two weak corner folds

For this item an artist’s name is not at hand. It is attributed to Klaus vom Bruch but it cannot be approved. At some point in the eighties I got hold on this VHS cassette including four vintage photo prints. I have a vague remembrance that I got it from Vereniging van Videokunstenaars founded in Amsterdam in 1982. Somewhere I have the idea that this cassette was a kind of promotion material of a video film to be launched soon. Hence a lacking VHS video tape. KvG

KEN LUM, Speculations, 1992 [artist’s book, signed]

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KEN LUM, Speculations, 1992
22 x 15,5 cm
artist’s book; offset, HC, dust cover, 24 pp.
35 signed and numbered,
signed, here number 34/35
regular edition 1000
published by Imschoot, Ghent, Belgium
mint condition, although slightly aged on page edges
€ 250,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace EU registered mail, Margin Scheme
inv.KLum 459-pr

The regular edition was published in soft cover opposite to this signed and numbered edition of 35 that is cloth bound. Inside small photographs of people are depicted accompanied by speculative texts about their behaviour, actions, backgrounds, and identities, investigating assumptions on both a personal level as well as relations between image and text.

JAMES LEE BYARS, invitation card, 1981 [Galerie Helen van der Meij]

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JAMES LEE BYARS, invitation card, 1981
10,4 x 14,7 cm
offset
published by Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam
€ 450,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace EU mail
inv.JLBy 71-pr

James Lee Byars was quite interested in making paper works and printed matter. The motif of the ephemeral was never far away. Here his name is printed in extremely tiny capital letters on the front of the card.

JAMES LEE BYARS, The Palace of Good Luck, 1989 [multiple, invitation card]

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JAMES LEE BYARS, The Palace of Good Luck, 1989
11,4 x 16 x 0,3 cm
3 parts: gold printed envelope, card, red plastic mini ball
published by Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
extremely rare
€ 950,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JLBy 70-pr

On behalf of the inauguration of solo exhibition ‘The Palace of Good Luck’ of James Lee Byars a gold printed envelope including a white card with a very small red ball was sent to a selected group of people. The empty card and mini marble should be considered a part of this edition, also the gold envelope is an important part of the artist’s vocabulary; hence this multiple consists of three parts.



Additional information
Castello di Rivoli has archived its own published Byars’ golden printed invitation card, shown on its website recto and verso. Apparently the museum is not aware of the content of the envelope that is an important part of the invite. On the first photo in the right lower corner one may see an unevenness most likely caused by the tiny red ball inside.

Ref. Castello di Rivoli Collection Invite James Lee Byars.

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Hear there, everywhere, 1989-1990 [screen print on postcard]

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MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Hear there, everywhere, 1989-1990
10,5 x 15 cm
postcard; offset, screen print
published by the artist
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.MvW 37-39-pr

“In the United States, which Van Warmerdam first visited in 1989, the telephone buttons can be used for both numbers and letters. This led her to replace the meaningless letters with the words ‘Hear, there, every, where’, as though these words can be seen or heard while dialing. The postcard was produced by the artist herself; the four short words are silk-screen printed onto the card.”
From text by Kees van Gelder in catalogue ‘Close by in the distance’ (2011), p. 35.

MARTIN CREED, ‘I Can’t Move’ CD, 1999 [invite, order form]

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MARTIN CREED, ‘I Can’t Move’ CD, 1999
each 10.8 x 14 cm, invite + order form
published by Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.MCre 38-pr

This invitation came with an order form on very thin paper to buy a released CD at Art Metropole in Toronto. On Thursday September 9th Martin Creed performed songs from his CD during the launch.