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JOHN M ARMLEDER, invitation card ‘Six Logo’s around the carpet’, 1991

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JOHN M ARMLEDER, invitation card ‘Six Logo’s around the carpet’, 1991
21 x 14 cm
offset
mint
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 25,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JMA 000

In “Six Logo’s around the carpet” a hand woven carpet with tassels by Peter Nagy played a central role. The title of this black and white fabric is ‘Desease and Decoration’. It depicts six microscopic enlarged Aids-virus pictures used as a decoration for a carpet that was produced and distributed by Equator Productions in Brussels in Belgium. Six art works were shown on six walls.

Participating artists:
John M Armleder
Ansuya Blom
Hreinn Fridfinnsson
Kristján Gudmundsson
J.C.J. Vanderheyden
Olivier Mosset
Peter Nagy

JOHN M ARMLEDER, Black Noise, 2017 [tribute to STEVEN PARRINO]

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JOHN M ARMLEDER, Black Noise, 2017
27,3 x 17,4 x 9,9 cm
32 booklets, offset, stapled, cardboard box with high gloss paper and screen print
edition 600
mint
published by Ecart Publications, Geneva, Switzerland
inv.JMA 000

UGO RONDINONE, 2002 [Contemporary, print]

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UGO RONDINONE, 2002
colour print
26 x 20 cm
hand signed, numbered
sticker at the back of the print is mounted upside down
edition 4500, here number 2522
mint
published by Contemporary, London, UK
rare
€ 260,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.URon 387-pr

Contemporary was a monthly art magazine based in London, founded and edited as The Green Book by Keith Spencer as a quarterly publication. It re-emerged twice, the first time named Contemporary Art in 1993 and the second time again as Contemporary in 2002, but not limited anymore to visual arts. Once subscribed to the magazine each issue came with a print, with ink stamped signature and sometimes hand signed on sticker.
In spite of its large edition this colour card is difficult to find.

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, fax pages, 1999 [opening CEAC, Xiamen]

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SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, fax pages, 1999
ca A4
photo copies of 3 sheets of fax paper,
comes with first invitation card of CEAC
published by CEAC, Xiamen, P.R. of China
inv.SG 000-pr

Sigurdur Gudmundsson writes about preparations of his exhibition in CEAC / Chinese European Art Centre in Xiamen and one in museum Het Domein in Sittard (Netherlands) scheduled in 2000.

HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Mid-Night Jump, 1975 [unique vintage photos]

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HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Mid-Night Jump, 1975
each ca A6
3 analogue photos, unique
condition: excellent, although toned
Collection K. van Gelder/T.K. Johansen, Amsterdam
Copyright photos: Thora K. Johansen
p.o.r.
inv.HF 000-pr

 
These pictures were taken by Thora Johansen during a stay with friends in a villa in Canneto Pavese at Christmas holidays in 1974. At New Year’s Eve Hreinn asked Thora to make a photo of a jump just before midnight, one on the stroke of twelve ‘o clock and one after the stroke. It was not Hreinn’s intention to make an edition of that. It had to remain ephemeral and transient, almost like a story and continue to live on as a story.
In 2018 the three A6 photos were put on the website of Galerie van Gelder for the first time ever, with click-on HRes files. All these years they were glued-in in a family photo book of Thora K. Johansen who took the pictures, and as such only privately accessible between 1975 and 2018.

On behalf of his solo exhibition at (((R))) Rozenstraat in Amsterdam in 2020 an edition was made from the original vintage prints from 1975 shown above. In 2019 digital images were taken from the website for making an edition, neither with the consent of the photographer, nor of Galerie van Gelder. For the production of this edition the reddish tone in the vintage photos was replaced by a much more blueish one. The images have been cropped, mainly at the bottom part of the photos, apparently to bring the proportions back to the double A4 standard size or perhaps for esthetic reasons.

 
Added information:



HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Mid-Night Jump, 2019
each 42 x 29,7 cm
digital C-prints
edition 3 + 1 AP

History of prices:
Meese Gallery, Brussels, Belgium March 2024 € 15.000 – € 20.000,-
Galleri Claes Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany June 2022 € 12.500,-