ANNAÏK LOU PITTILOUD, White Between The Darlings, 2014
folded: 11 x 15 x 0.5 cm
leporello
numbered, signed
edition 200, here nr 47/200
published by Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Annaïk Lou Pittiloud collects postcards, mainly bought at museum shops and kept as a kind of darlings. She exhibits them as pairs following logics that draw comparisons between different postcard reproductions of the same artwork. The pairs are mounted in a passe-partout with a little space in between.
In this edition Annaïk Lou Pittiloud created a distance between a reproduction of an art work and its description on the backside of the postcard by skipping the reproduced art work completely. Instead she replaced the front of the postcard with a description of her gallery exhibition at Barbara Seiler Gallery, i.e. “White Between The Darlings”.
Edition is available at Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
DARIO FORLIN, Stay Healthy, [2019]
ca 71 x 38 cm
Tote bag, spray drawing
signed, unique
inv.Tassen 619
Dario Forlin is a Swiss artist who features himself as illustrator: ‘Hallo! Mein Name ist Dario Forlin und ich bin Illustrator, wohnhaft Bern, Schweiz und Mitherausgeber von Gaffa’, a zine that is published in Zurich.
The Tote bag “Stay Healthy” refers to danger, he said while sitting behind his table at VOLUMES 2019, a book fair in Zurich, Switzerland.
NOKUKHANYA LANGA, 25 m2 + a gallerist, 2018
print on polyester flag, cardboard box, 4 handmade stickers, label
signed, numbered
edition 4
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 500,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.DIV4-ds
The four foam board boxes for this edition have been hand made by Nokukhanya Langa and is glued on with hand made stickers. On the inner part of the lid a green sticker is glued with ‘50% USA’ referring to a part of her identity. This is the very first multiple of this artist and was published by Galerie van Gelder Editions.
YAYOI KUSAMA, I Love Lots of Dots, 2019
ca 70 x 37 cm
tote bag, screen print
published by Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
inv.Tassen 619
Descriptions of the term tote or tate for bags, meaning bags “to carry”, can be traced back to 1900. During the 1950s, tote bags began to enter into the main culture. Women primarily utilized them as practical handheld bags because they didn’t require much care.
GENERAL IDEA, shopping bag, 1990
27,8 x 40 x 10 cm
black glossy paper bag with offset adhesive-backed label
edition unknown
published by General Idea, Toronto, Canada
splendid condition
p.o.r.
inv.Tassen 619-pr
This oblong shaped paper shopping bag was first presented at the ARCO Art Fair (1990) in Madrid at the Yen-Boutique of Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists Ronald Gabe (1945–1994), Slobodan Saia-Levy (1944–1994), and Michael Tims (b. 1946). They met in Toronto in 1969, and later took the names Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson. They started to name themselves as General Idea after they were addressed as such when they proposed an exhibition plan.
A copy is in the collection of Moma, New York, ref. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/402101
and a copy is in the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, ref. https://walkerart.org/collections/artworks/lucre-shopping-bag
History of prices:
eBay-twobittsstore, New Westminster, Britisch Colombia, Canada January 2024 US$ 599,99
UnoriginalSins, UK January 2024 GBP 600.- (poor condition)
ALISON KNOWLES, Fortune, 1980
ca 4 x 5 x 4 cm
fortune cookie, print and handwriting on paper, machine typed label
published by Armin Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany
inv.AKno 703
MARLENE DUMAS, Strips – No interviews please, 1987
31 x 23 cm
artist’s book, offset, spiral binding, 40 pp.
limited and small edition
published by Stichting één op één, Amsterdam
condition: good, light foxing at top part of cover
€ 295,- plus € 18,- registered mail
inv.MDum 861
History of prices:
Antiuariaat Digitalis, Amsterdam November 2022 € 485,-
Walgenbach, Rotterdam 16 September 2021 € 385,-
Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam, 3 November 2019 € 2.500,-
Catawiki-DavidCZ, 6 January 2016 € 748,- (hammer price)
