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BERT MCLEAN, What does it do?, 2024

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]

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.’

VOEBE DE GRUYTER, The Cable Theory, 2004 [artist’s book – text by 3rd person]

VOEBE DE GRUYTER, The Cable Theory, 2004
29,7 x 21 cm
SC, 24 pp., sewn, English text by Kees van Gelder
edition 700
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 20,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.VdG 000

This publication is about offices seen via the snare theory above tables (through image receivers like computers) and below office tables via ultra sub-atomic energy exchange via cables lying on floors. It was issued on behalf of Voebe de Gruyter’s installation “The Cable Theory” in group exhibition “Play Pen” at The Drawing Center in New York in June and July 2004.

Moment to Moment, 2023 [The Thing Quarterly]

The Thing Quarterly, 2023
newspaper format, 6 tomes
each 58 x 36 cm, ink stamped envelope, inserted card
published by The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco, USA
comes in customized light weight box
€ 95,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.TTQ 47

“Moment to Moment” is a project that consists of commissioned online videos, text works, paintings, animated .gifs, photographs and essays. Some appeared on billboards, bus shelters and other outdoor advertising spaces in cities. In these 6 free printed newspapers the entire project is documented.
THE THING Quarterly is an object based publication produced by visual artists Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan.
Ref. https://www.kqed.org/arts/126027/good_things_require_money_the_thing_quarterlys_moment_to_moment

KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Horizontal-Diagonal-Vertical, 1993 [graphite drawing]

KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Horizontal-Diagonal-Vertical, 1993
32,7 x 38,7 cm
lead pencil fillings, 0.7 mm (H)
edition 40, here nr. 3/40
signed, numbered, dated
verso machine typed text
published by the artist
inv.KG 000

In 1987 Kristjan Gudmundsson started to make use of graphite on paper without using graphite as a traditional technique to draw with. In stead he merely combined graphite and paper as an assemblage, i.e. a solid block of graphite together with a paper roll. In ‘Horizontal-Diagonal-Vertical’, its use has been applied as a collage showing three formal compositions. KvG