YOKO ONO, 20 postcards – Drawing from Franklin Summer, 1995
16 x 23,3 cm
ink stamped envelope with 20 postcards, each 17,5 x 11,4 cm
signed in print ’94
vintage; 1st print
published by Carte d’Arte, Messina, Italy in 1995 rare in this condition: cards mint, envelope in excellent shape
€ 195,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.YOno 87-pr
History of price:
UnoriginalSins, UK February 2024 GBP 140.-
Idea Nowonline, September 2022 GBP 95.-
YAYOI KUSAMA, Pumpkin, 2019
61 x 43 cm
print on bath mat (small)
polyester fabric
published by Redbubble, Docklands, Victoria, Australia
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
In 2019 for a very short period a bath mat (both small and large) with printed pumpkin was offered for sale. The design was more than remarkable since only circa 5% of the surface was used for the image of a pumpkin; not really a commercial product, one would say. In less than two months it was taken from the website of Redbubble.
Redbubble is a global online marketplace for print-on-demand products based on user-submitted artwork. The company was founded in 2006 in Melbourne, Australia, and also maintains offices in San Francisco and Berlin in 2017.
BERT FRINGS, Schilderijen/Paintings, 2021
26 x 18,7 cm
catalogue, SC, offset, 20 pp., insert
semi-transparant envelope, sticker
signed, numbered
published by Trichis, Rotterdam, Netherlands
€ 25,- plus € 5,- for mailing
purchase at bertfrings@gmail.com
CADY NOLAND, The Clip-on Method, 2021
each 28 x 21,5 x 2,2 cm
offset, Mylar dust covers
2 volumes, 288 pp. and 304 pp.
published by Cady Noland, Rhea Anastas and Robert Snowden, USA
inv.CNol 231-232
photos: K. van Gelder
This book of Cady Noland has two volumes and could easily be considered as a follow up of ‘No Land’ (2018), an unauthorized collection of copied writings about Cady Noland with reproductions of magazine and catalogue clippings; a piracy publication.
However, here the content of ‘The Clip-on Method’ is obviously documented with the aim to put emphasis on more verbal critical statements about ethical aspects in recent history of the United States, such as racism, dubious goals in politics and industry, use and abuse of scientific knowledge, manipulations of power. That makes this book more than just a collection of images of works by Cady Noland, and together with the 2-3 white pages notably inserted here and there in both volumes makes this publication an artist’s book. It is used by the artist as a means to make a point, opposite to mere documenting art works.
The second volume contains a text “Notes for 1989 Show” published in Balcon no. 4 written by Cady Noland, next to photos of works.
In a book report by Jason Pickleman in Chicago Gallery News a lucid and precise analysis is made of the two volumes of ‘The Clip-on Method’. Really an enlighting loose text.
KvG
Ref. Book report, by Jason Pickleman, Chicago Gallery News, 16 May 2022.
History of prices:
After 8 Books, Paris, France December 2023 € 90,-
Tender Books, London, UK November 2023 € 119,-
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
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.
HENK PEETERS, Nul postzegel, 2011
10,1 x 14,7 cm
sheet of three stamps, 3 postcards, envelope
published by Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands
inv.HP 000-pr
JAMES LEE BYARS, The Perfect Question, 1981
10 x 11 cm
newspaper snippet, De Volkskrant, 24 December
published by De Appel, Amsterdam
€ 120,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JLBy 72-pr
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.